Mickey Leland College Preparatory Academy for Young Men (MLCPA), originally Young Men's College Preparatory Academy at E. O. Smith (YMCPA), is a university preparatory secondary school for boys in the Fifth Ward,

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. The school opened in August, 2011 for the 6th and 9th grades, and would gradually become a middle and high school. It first opened in the E.O. Smith Education Center campus in the Fifth Ward. The district modeled the school off of the Chicago Urban Prep Academy in

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" Greater Northside Management District. Retrieved on November 11, 2009. Some Fifth Ward community members expressed disappointment that the previous E.O. Smith students would be displaced by the opening of the new magnet school. The HISD board approved the renaming of the school to Leland College Preparatory Academy in 2014. HISD built the permanent Leland school on the site of the former

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, which once served as Wheatley High School and E.O. Smith. The new building used a similar architectural style to the original. A grand opening ceremony was held in 2017.Fifth Ward community celebrates opening of new Mickey Leland College Prep campus
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Young Men's College Preparatory Academy

Young Men's College Preparatory Academy at Houston ISD
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HISD Board Approves All-Boys College Prep Academy

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