 Following this, José Martí was converted to a magnet high school in August 2011, with 6th through 9th grades present in the 2011–2012 school year.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.