History
E. O. Smith Education Center opened in the former Wheatley High School/McGowen Elementary School building in 1950. The school was named after Professor Ernest Ollington Smith, the first principal of Wheatley. During the beginning of the 1979-1980 school year, E. O. Smith moved into its final facility. Carter Career Center opened in the McGowen/Wheatley/Smith former building.
In 2010 the Houston Independent School District Board of Education voted in favor of creating an all-boys academy, the Young Men's College Preparatory Academy. It is located at the current site of E. O. Smith. The boys school was be modeled off of Urban Prep Academies of Chicago, Illinois.
Students formerly zoned to E. O. Smith Elementary School were rezoned to Atherton, Bruce, Dogan, Nat Q. Henderson, Ross, and Sherman.
Students formerly zoned to E. O. Smith Middle School were zoned to Fleming, Gregory-Lincoln, Jackson, and McReynolds middle schools.
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