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 later was used as the main campus for North Forest High School.[1][2] As of 2022[update] it is used as the Houston Independent School District Education Learning Center.[3]
Marilyn Gambrell, a parole officer who became a teacher, started a program called "No More Victims", which was designed to prevent children of incarcerated individuals from going to prison.
The library, the Carole M. Anderson Library, was named after Carole Mae Anderson, a Smiley English teacher who donated books to the school's previous library facility.[4]
- ^ "Directory of Schools." North Forest Independent School District. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
- ^ "North Forest High School Ninth Grade Center and Main Campus Standard Dress Code Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine." North Forest Independent School District. Retrieved on July 15, 2011. "A standard dress code has been approved for North Forest High School. All students North Forest High School attending both the main campus at 10725 Mesa Drive and the Ninth Grade Center at 6602 Winfield Road are required to adhere to the required dress code."
- ^ "New employee educational learning center to open in North Forest". Houston Independent School District. 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ "Carole M. Anderson Library." (Archive) North Forest High School. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.