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M.B. Smiley High School was a public secondary school in Houston, Texas, United States. Smiley, which served grades 9 through 12, and was a part of the North Forest Independent School District. M.B. Smiley was featured in the film Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story, which aired on Lifetime. The campus is now used as the ...
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Marilyn Gambrell is a parole-officer-turned-teacher who started the program No More Victims at the M.B. Smiley High School in Houston, Texas. The program was developed to assist children with incarcerated parents, hoping to prevent them from following in their parents' footsteps.
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The district was established sometime around 1923 as the Northeast Houston Independent School District. It was also named the East and Mount Houston Independent School District.It began with a single school. The district originally had a low-income rural white population. Schools were segregated until the late 1960s. By the 1970s, when the area was...
The NFISD territory covered 33 square miles (85 km2) of land in northeast Harris County, including small parts of northeast Houston (including the neighborhoods of East Houston, Northwood Manor, Dorchester Place, Royal Glen, Fontaine, Scenic Woods, Melbourne Place, Kentshire, Henry Place, Baker Place, Glenwood Forest, Royal Oak Terrace, Houston Sub...
As of 2010[update], NFISD had 7,410 students. 68.6% of the students were black, 30.8% were Hispanic, .5% were white, and .1% were Asian or Pacific Islander. 100% were classified as economically disadvantaged. At that time the district had more than 1,050 employees. In 1980 80% of the students were African American.In 1989 the student body consisted...
In 2011 NFISD operated nine schools.The district's facilities included one early childhood center, five elementary schools, two middle schools, one ninth grade center, one charter school, and one high school.
Former primary schools
1. East Houston Elementary School (site after renovation became East Houston Intermediate School[citation needed]; the campus now houses Hilliard Elementary School) 2. Tidwell Elementary School (school built in 1962, closed after spring 2008) 2.1. In 2007 students from Tidwell were relocated to Hilliard Elementary School 3. Langstead Elementary School (built in 1968; closed as a result of damage from Tropical Storm Allison; later used as a temporary administration building) 3.1. The building...
Former K-8 schools
1. Settegast Elementary School - Opened 1951 to serve black students. It housed about 300 students, grades 1-8
Former intermediate schools
1. East Houston Intermediate School (built in 2000,the campus is now the site of Hilliard Elementary School) 2. Keahey Intermediate School (built in 2000, at the time of closure the campus was the site of Marshall Early Childhood Center)
The district headquarters at the time of closure was at 6010 Little York Road.One week before the July 1, 2013 closure, the district began removing its items from the headquarters. The previous district headquarters had opened in 1964. It was damaged in Tropical Storm Allison in 2001; the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts stated that the 12,000-...
The school district provided transportation to any elementary, middle, or high school student living over 2 miles (3.2 km) from his or her assigned school. The district may have added .1 miles (0.16 km) to establish a reasonable boundary. It also provided transportation for AM and PM kindergarten students around noon. If students faced hazards (suc...
Important Information for the North Forest Community - Houston Independent School DistrictNorth Forest ISD (nfisd.org) at the Wayback Machine(archive index) - final website URLNorth Forest ISD (northforestschools.org) at the Wayback Machine(archive index) (2005–2008)North Forest ISD (northforest.schoolnet.com/main.aspx) at the Wayback Machine(archive index) (2003–2006)Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story is a 2005 TV film which tells the true story of a former parole officer named Marilyn Gambrell, who helped a group of students at M. B. Smiley High School in Houston, Texas, United States. The students had either been raped, sexually harassed and/or beaten by their own parents. Marilyn ...
The program was founded by former parole officer, Marilyn Gambrell, and addresses the physical, emotional, academic and social needs and issues of teens through a facilitated peer-support program. The first classes were taught at M. B. Smiley High School in Houston, Texas.
About Us. School History. Our History. Founded in 2008 as a consolidation of Forest Brook High School at 7525 Tidwell Road and M. B. Smiley High School on Mesa Drive, the school was originally located on the former Forest Brook High School campus.
