Miami Springs High School
| Miami Springs Senior High School | |
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Miami Springs Senior High in 2013
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751 Dove Ave Miami Springs, Florida 33166 United States |
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| Coordinates | 25°49′51″N 80°17′41″W / 25.83071°N 80.29467°WCoordinates: 25°49′51″N 80°17′41″W / 25.83071°N 80.29467°W |
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| School type | Public, high school |
| Established | September 1964 |
| School district | Miami-Dade County Public Schools |
| Principal | Edward Smith |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,470 |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Garnet and Gold |
| Mascot | Golden Hawk (Hank the Hawk) |
| Newspaper | Zeitgeist |
| Website | miamisprings.dadeschools.net |
Miami Springs Senior High School is a secondary school located at 751 Dove Avenue in Miami Springs, Florida, United States; its principal is Edward Smith. The school is part of Miami-Dade County Public School's nationally accredited magnet program, specializing in travel and tourism, the oldest of its kind in the state of Florida (established in 1987).
As of 2011, Miami Springs offers IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) courses and the iTech academy; hosting advanced computer programming and mechanical engineering courses.
Miami Springs serves ninth through twelfth grade students in the city of Miami Springs, the village of Virginia Gardens, the town of Medley, the southern portion of the city of Hialeah (south of 29th Street, and south of 25th Street after Hialeah Park) and a small unincorporated residential neighborhood east of Miami International Airport. It used to serve the western Miami suburb of Doral until 2006, when a new high school was built in that area.
Beginning in the 2007-2008 school year, the opening of Westland Hialeah High School in the southern portion of Hialeah removed the entire portion of southern Hialeah served by the school and located West of Palm Avenue; however, all portions of the boundary located east of Palm Avenue in Hialeah remained served by the school.
Construction at Miami Springs Senior High School began in 1963 with the clearing of a large wooded lot at the site of the current campus. There were no homes built directly on the site, which was one of the last areas of thick jungle growth in the incorporated Miami Springs. The first day of classes at Springs was delayed due to Hurricane Cleo striking Miami on August 27, 1964. Springs first opened its doors after Labor Day the following week, in September, as an overcrowding reliever for nearby Hialeah High School. The first school year, 1964–65, served 9th 10th and 11th grade students, and the second, 1965–66, offered classes for 10th, 11th and 12th grades. Therefore, the first graduating class of Miami Springs was the Class of 1966.
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