Miami High School
Miami Senior High School is a public high school located at 2450 SW 1st Street in Miami, Florida, United States operated by Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Miami Senior High School was founded in 1902, making it the oldest high school in Miami-Dade County. The high school is famous for its historic architecture, and the school building is considered a Miami historic landmark. As the oldest high school in Miami, Miami Senior High School has a rich alumni 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.
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