Hialeah High School

Hialeah High School is a secondary school located at 251 E 47th Street in Hialeah, Florida, USA. Hialeah High School opened its doors to students and staff in 1954 to serve the growing communities of Northwestern Miami-Dade County. It is one of the oldest secondary schools in the county, having celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2004. Hialeah was one of the ten Miami-Dade high schools that was given a grade of "F" for the 2006–2007 school year ac... more

Hialeah High School is a secondary school located at 251 E 47th Street in Hialeah, Florida, USA. Hialeah High School opened its doors to students and staff in 1954 to serve the growing communities of Northwestern Miami-Dade County. It is one of the oldest secondary schools in the county, having celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2004. Hialeah was one of the ten Miami-Dade high schools that was given a grade of "F" for the 2006–2007 school year according to the FCAT examinations. Hialeah's growth began in the early 1960s when a population boom occurred due to a migration of expatriate Cubans from the Cuban Revolution of 1959. As a response to this, Miami Springs High School, which opened in September 1964, was built to relieve this overcrowding problem, but the initiative failed as the student population growth in the area was larger than the capacity of both high schools. Because of this, Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School was built, opening in 1971, to relieve both schools from their... less