students that came from Crozier Tech negotiated with DISD to show the diplomas as N.R. Crozier Technical High School up to the year 1975) Business and Management Magnet Center 1975-May 1995 (School relocated to Townview Center May 1995) Pleasant Grove High School 1953–1957 (the school had been in existence since 1939 but was in Pleasant Grove ISD until that district was absorbed into Dallas ISD in 1953. Today the campus is used by John Quincy Adams Elementary School) Forest Avenue High School 1916–1956 (was converted from a whites-only school to an African-American school and renamed James Madison High School, and the white students were sent to Crozier Tech) Rylie High School 1956–1963 (converted to a junior high and replaced with H. Grady Spruce High School) A. Maceo Smith High School E. D. Walker High School for pupils with disabilities - Later instead housed an elementary school program for advanced students A Health Special Alternative High School, for pregnant students was Constructed named Maya Angelou School Former middle schools Pearl C. Anderson Middle School (closed 2013) - The school was in South Dallas. Shortly after the closure, the school was targeted by thieves and vandals. In 2013 the Dallas County Appraisal District (DCAD) appraised the property's value as $208,100. Edward H. Cary Middle School was in North Dallas, and serves a section of the Preston Hollow area, including Old Preston Hollow or the "Estate area". In 2019 the school had 500 students. In 2019 a strike from a tornado destroyed the school building. In the period until a new campus building is established, Franklin Middle School was scheduled to take about 60% of the students while the remainder were to go to Medrano Middle School. It was disestablished in 2020. S. S. Conner Junior High School 1955–1964 (the S. S. Conner name was subsequently taken by an elementary school that opened in 1965) Edison Middle Learning Center (closed 2018) It was located in West Dallas and named after Thomas Edison. In 2018 it had scores in Texas state tests, considered unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), for five consecutive years in a row. In 2018 the number of students was below half of the building's capacity; in 2015 the utilization, the smallest in the district's traditional schools, was 32%. Hobbs and Hacker stated that "Not many families choose to send their children to the habitually low-performing school." Every single student