 In November 2011, an incident involving pepper spray being sprayed in a stairwell caused 20 students to go to a hospital for non-life-threatening concerns.That November, the school also became one of three schools—the other two being EA and Hialeah Middle—to be enrolled into the Afterschool Nutrition Program.In May 2012, the school received a grant from the National Wildlife Federation, which was used to initialize the planting of the school's native arboretum.