DCS was founded as a segregation academy in response to the court-ordered desegregation of Miami-Dade public schools.

[3] New Testament Baptist Church was founded in 1954, and Dade Christian School in 1961 by Pastor Al Janney.

When Dade Christian School appealed the ruling in Brown v. Dade Christian School, Inc. (581 F.2d 472) in 1977, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of the plaintiff in what was considered an open question left by the Supreme Court at the time.

[5][6][7] In 2022, DCS sold about half of its campus to a real estate developer,[8] a sale it began exploring three years earlier.

[9] At the 2006 Fellowship of Christian Cheerleaders National Competition in Orlando, the junior high team won first place with a rendition of Grease.