sentences:  For several years, while it served as a zoned school, A. Maceo Smith High School was a Texas Education Agency "unacceptable" ranked school.In 2011 the district converted A. Maceo Smith into a technology magnet, A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School.Since Smith was reconstituted as a magnet school, it avoided the possibility of the TEA reconstituting or closing the school itself due to its poor performance as a zoned school.