The school opened in September 2013[1] with 273 students at the Metropolitan Avenue Campus in Forest Hills, Queens and serves primarily students from NYC District 24 in Northern Queens.

Maspeth High School has over 40 clubs and 27 varsity sports teams.

[2] The founding principal of Maspeth High School is Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir who proposed a classical high school model to the New York City Department of Education in December 2010.

His proposal was accepted on January 4, 2011 and matched to the newly constructed Maspeth High School campus building for opening the following September.

Abdul-Mutakabbir was removed June 2021 pending the investigation on widely spread grade fraud.