[clarification needed] In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.

[4] Once part of Rylie, this unincorporated land was annexed to Dallas in the late '50s and developed into a community most noted for its high school, H. Grady Spruce, which opened in 1963.

Black students became a majority in the early 1980s as the demographics of the Pleasant Grove area changed.

On June 26, 2008, the Dallas ISD board voted to move all 10th and 11th graders from Spruce High School and released all staff from their contracts.

[citation needed] Previously the school housed the Dallas ISD and Parkland Spruce Youth and Family Health Center in temporary buildings.