Miami Senior High School, also known as Miami High School, is a

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located at 2450 SW 1st Street in

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, and operated by

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. Founded in 1903, it is one of the oldest high school in

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. The school building is famous for its

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and is a historic landmark. Miami Senior High School has a rich

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base, with many graduates of the high school going on to varied, prominent careers. The high school originally served the earliest settling families of Miami in the first half of the 20th century. By the late 1960s, with an increase in Miami's population, its student body grew at a fast pace.

History

Miami Senior High School was established in 1903 and was the first

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. Originally, high school classes took place in Miami's first schoolhouse, a two-story frame structure that was built in 1898 on what is now NE 1st Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets. This building, considered temporary, was a one-story frame

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addition built directly behind the existing schoolhouse. It opened its doors on September 18, 1905, with 29 girls and 20 boys in attendance. In 1909, the school board decided to build a new schoolhouse to again house all grammar and high school students together. In 1911, a new three-story concrete schoolhouse opened its doors. The original one-story high school building was moved to SW 12th Street and 1st Avenue, repainted, and opened as the Southside Elementary School. After a new Southside Elementary School was constructed in 1914, the original high school building fell into decades of neglect, operating as a boarding house for 90 years. It was "discovered" in 1983 by a local historian and, in January 2003, was moved to its current location in Southside Park, where it has since been renovated and opened as a community center. Miami Senior High School's current building is its fourth home. The school board selected a fifteen-acre campus in the middle of what was then a pine forest. Groundbreaking occurred early in 1926, but due to the

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of 1926, the school's opening was delayed. Finally finished in 1928, the building was designed in a Spanish Mediterranean style with

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and

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details by Richard Kiehnel of

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, one of the great early Miami architects. He gave the school an impressive entrance off Flagler Street "of three arched portals befitting a Gothic cathedral," according to the

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' Miami architecture guide. The building is listed on the

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. 1968 was a significant year for Miami Senior High School. Structural changes were made to accommodate a newly installed air conditioning system that closed off the building's high ceilings. The original windows on the building were sealed with bricks before the completion of the work, and students suffered in hot classrooms for a large portion of the year. This was also the year of the major Florida statewide teachers' strike, which caused students classes to be in chaos due to having many newly hired substitute teachers, while their regular teachers walked picket lines for weeks.

Demographics

Located in the

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neighborhood, the school was founded in 1903. Since the late 1960s, the high school has traditionally had a

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majority. Today, a growing number of students are of

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descent, reflecting demographic changes in Little Havana since the 1990s. As of 2013, Miami Senior High School is 94% Hispanic (primarily

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, Honduran, Guatemalan, and Salvadorean), 3% White (non-Hispanic), and 3% Black. By the 1950s, a large Jewish minority had developed at Miami Senior High School, and Jews made up the majority of the students in some advanced-level classes. During that decade some Jewish students were in the attendance zone for

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but were instead sent to Miami High; this was especially the case with girls, as many high status girls' clubs at Coral Gables High did not admit Jews. A patio called "Little Jerusalem" or "LJ" (initially "Little Israel" in the 1950s) was where Jewish students socialized. In 1984, the student newspaper declared

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the official language of Miami Senior High School. Then, like today, most students at the school spoke fluent

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and English. 69% of the school's students graduate, and it has an overall dropout rate of 4%.

Historic architectural restoration

Beginning in 2010, Miami Senior High School underwent a four-year historic restoration, renovation, and remodeling project at a cost of approximately $55 million. Project architect Thorn Grafton of Zyscovich Architects, who is the grandson of Miami Beach pioneering architect Russell Pancoast, was one of the people who undertook the renovation project. Completed in April 2014, the project did away with the dropped ceilings that had accommodated an old air conditioning system, and restored the original high ceilings and decorative cast-stone vent screens in the halls. It also reopened the original second story arcade, removed an office expansion that had blocked part of the courtyard, and restored the original 14-foot arched windows and steel-trussed cathedral ceiling in the old library (now a media center).

Notable alumni

* Rudy Árias - former

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and coach. *

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(1929–1983) - film and television actor, star of ''

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(1982-1994) and Mayor of

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manager *

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champion, 1953 MVP *

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In pop culture

Movies including ''

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'' and ''

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'' were filmed at MHS, as well as the

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s for

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and

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's "

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, Emmy-nominated actor, broadcaster and singer, 1970s File:Andre Johnson 2010.jpg,

football player, Class of 1999 File:UdonisHaslem.jpg, Udonis Haselm,

Basketball Player, Class of 1996

References

External links

Miami Senior High School website
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