Construction at Miami Springs Senior High School began in 1960 with the demolishing of private homes at the site of the current campus. Springs first opened its doors in September of 1962 as an overcrowding reliever for nearby Hialeah High School. Its first graduating class was the class of 1966.
The school was one of three high schools in the district seriously affected by overcrowding in the early 2000s during the county's largest population growth since 1980. Its student population in the 2001-2002 school year peaked at 4,750 forcing the school to acquire a "split shifts" schedule in which 9th and 10th grade students would attend classes in the afternoons while 11th and 12th grade students attended in the morning. Despite being the third most populated school in the district after G. Holmes Braddock High School and Barbara Goleman Senior High School, Springs' was considered most overcrowded as the school's capacity was only 2,500 students, while Braddock and Goleman's capacities surpassed 4,000 apiece. The school resumed a regular schedule for the 2005-2006 school year as overcrowding will be relieved upon the opening of Ronald W. Reagan Doral High School, a school in the nearby Doral suburb that was previously served by Miami Springs. In recent years the school has also implemented a policy to remove students not living within its boundaries. As a result, the school's overcrowding has been significantly alleviated. This policy may have helped improve Miami Springs' test scores, helping raise the school from a D rating in 2003 to a B rating in 2005 and 2006.
Congressman Kendrick B. Meek [link], who represents the Seventeenth Congressional District of Florida. Meek also served as a Captain in the Florida Highway Patrol.
[Margery Hemsing Rankin] served as the President of the Dade League of Women Voters and as a Miami-Dade County Public Schools administrator. After her death in 1997 her family created a scholarship in her name for students from her high school alma mater.
