[6] It is managed by the School Board of Miami-Dade County, which appoints a superintendent to head the administrative portions of the district.

Bilingual education is offered in Spanish, French, German, Haitian Creole, and Mandarin Chinese.

[10] The First Coconut Grove School, built in 1887, served as both the religious and educational center of the pioneer community.

[11] The first students in attendance included Annie and Harry Peacock; John, James, Trinni, and Mary Pent; and Lillian, Grace, Charlie, and Joseph Frow.

[10] The First Coconut Grove Schoolhouse is a one-story, one-room, rectangular structure with a wood frame and a gable roof covered with shingles.

[11] In 1970, the schoolhouse was moved from its original location to its current home on the grounds of the Plymouth Congregational Church, at 3429 Devon Road, Coconut Grove, Florida, 33133.

The hurricane ended the 1920s land boom in Miami, and ushered in the Great Depression to the area long before the actual market crash of 1929.

In 1928, Miami Senior High, the district's first secondary school, moved into its fifth and current location.

In 1926, the original Booker T. Washington Senior High School building opened in what is now the Overtown district.

It was the only secondary black high school at the time in South Florida, enrolling students from as far away as Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Beginning in 1962, Dade County schools began to receive their first influx of Hispanic students, mainly from Cuba.

It was highly regarded for its handling of displaced students after the 1982 Miami riot, in which 14 schools were badly damaged due to fire and vandalism.

This challenging world language curriculum is fully accredited by the governments of Spain, France, and Germany, and is implemented through comprehensive agreements between the Ministries of Education of the partner countries and Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

The district, through the International Studies Magnet Program at Sunset Elementary School, started to produce bicultural, bilingual and biliterate students in English and their choice of Spanish, French, or German.

Following Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Dade County was commended for its speed at rebuilding and reopening schools.

The district also re-opened Coral Way Elementary as its first bilingual school, which teaches its curriculum in both English and Spanish.

In 1996, the school board revamped itself under pressure to boost minority representation, expanding from seven to nine members, all elected for the first time from single-member districts.

The board also began a new program to create K-8 centers as a way of relieving overcrowding in middle schools.

The early 21st century was characterized by the widespread adoption of information technology for everyday use by classroom teachers, students, and parents.

[citation needed] In October 2001, Deputy Superintendent Henry Fraind retired under pressure after it was discovered that a clique of longtime administrators and powerful outsiders had exploited the district's vast resources.

[citation needed] The school district is currently being monitored by the Florida Department of Education due to having extremely low monetary reserves.

By January 2011, there were 1,403 survivors from that earthquake enrolled at M-DCPS, which was below the predicted number, and most of them were in the middle and upper classes.

[23] In 2013, the state of Florida announced it would replace the FCAT statewide with Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exams.

[28] In 2023, Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes within the Miami-Dade system banned the inaugural poem of Amanda Gorman, following the complaint of a parent that allegedly opposed "non-white voices" in the school curriculum; the parent was able to ban the book thanks to the policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.