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Miami Springs Senior High School is a secondary school located at 751 Dove Avenue in Miami Springs, Florida, USA; 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 now also 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, the school 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. ==History== 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 area 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 1964 as an overcrowding reliever for nearby Hialeah High School. The first school year of 1964-65 served 9th 10th and 11th grade students, and the second school year of 1965-66 offered classes for 10th, 11th and 12th grades. Therefore, the first graduating class of Miami Springs 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 and in the same year it implemented a "split shifts" schedule in which 9th and 10th grade students would attend classes in the afternoons while 11th and 12th grade students as well as Student-Athletes 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 was relieved upon the opening of Ronald W. Reagan Doral High School, a school in the nearby suburb of Doral that was previously served by Miami Springs. Miami Springs Senior High has been a Title I school since the program was expanded to Miami-Dade Public Schools in 2002, due to its extremely high rate of foreign-born students (66.9% in 2013, 70.7% in 2005 and 52.2% in 1997). In 2013, Miami Springs was ranked as the public high school with the highest proportion of foreign-born students nationwide, followed closely by Ronald W. Reagan Doral High School at 65.8% and Miami Senior High School at 61.2%. This exceptionally high rate makes Miami Springs one of the most unique public schools in the US, with over 70% of the course offerings in either Spanish or reformulated in English for Spanish Speakers. However, this has been a boon to its extensive Advanced Placement program and Miami Springs was ranked among the top 10 high schools nationwide for Hispanic students performance in the AP program - 65% passing rate across all subjects - with first-generation immigrant Hispanic students receiving the highest scores. The school has a strict policy to remove students not living within its boundaries. As a result, the school's overcrowding has been significantly reduced. 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. As of 2013, Miami Springs is an A school. In 2009 Hialeah Gardens High School opened, taking attendance boundary territory from Barbara Goleman High School and Miami Springs High School. In turn, Goleman took territory from American High School.〔"(HGHSBoundaryMap.pdf )." ''Hialeah Gardens High School''. Retrieved on February 11, 2009.〕 As of August 2015, Miami Springs Senior High School switched to the common 8 period, 32-credit schedule and graduation requirements to meet the standards and requests of the PTSA and other high school's in the district who had already adopted the schedule. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miami Springs High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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