Construction at Miami Springs Senior High School began in 1963 with the clearing of a large wooded lot at the site of the current campus.

There were no homes built directly on the site, which was one of the last areas of thick jungle growth in the incorporated Miami Springs.

The first day of classes at Springs was delayed due to Hurricane Cleo striking Miami on August 27, 1964.

Springs first opened its doors after Labor Day the following week, in September, as an overcrowding reliever for nearby Hialeah High School.

This has been a boon to its extensive Advanced Placement program, and Springs was ranked among the top 10 high schools nationwide for Hispanic students performance in the AP program - 65% passing rate across all subjects - with first-generation immigrant Hispanic students receiving the highest scores.

In late October 2011, Principal Tom Ennis moved to Miami Killian High School.

In 2015 a plaque honoring Bruce Wayne Carter, an alumnus of the school who became Private First Class and died in the Vietnam War, was installed.

[citation needed] The State's Accountability program grades a school by a complex formula that looks at both current scores and annual improvement on the Reading, Math, Writing and Science FCATs.