M. B. Smiley High School

Smiley, which served grades 9 through 12, and was a part of the North Forest Independent School District.

Smiley was featured in the film Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story, which aired on Lifetime.

[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.

Some argued that because Forest Brook and Smiley were rivals, putting the students on the same campus would lead to incidents.

Some parents and observers criticized the decision, fearing territorial rivalries would cause tension between Forest Brook and Smiley students.

In 2007 Johns Hopkins University referred to Smiley as a "dropout factory" where at least 40 percent of the entering freshman class did not make it to their senior year.