Built on a former
landfill, construction for Dr. Michael M. Krop High School began in 1996, after the
Miami-Dade School Board approved plans to build a new high school in North
Miami-Dade County to lessen overcrowding in local secondary schools, including
North Miami Beach Senior High School. Various secondary schools in northeast Dade were relieved by Krop. When it first opened it had about 1,500 students. Opening its doors in 1998, Krop began with
9th and
10th grades and eventually added
11th and
12th grades; its first graduating class was the class of 2001. At the time of its opening, Krop had a total enrollment of 1,475 students. In early 1998, before its opening, the naming of the school some controversy, as letters from members of the community indicated a preference for a more generic name. The school is named after
Michael M. Krop (1930-2018), an orthodontist who was first elected to the Miami-Dade School Board in 1980. He retired from the board in 2004, after 24 years of service. Former board members Janet McAliley and Betsy Kaplan stated that they would not support renaming the school after him. In 2012, even though Krop had a strong academic reputation, some parents in the Aventura area promoted the idea of the city starting a public high school. At the time city council refused to go forward with the idea. However, by 2019 Aventura opened a new charter high school,
Don Soffer Aventura High School. Colleen Wright of the
Miami Herald stated that the new school could take students who would otherwise attend Krop. For a period Krop was overcrowded, but by 2019 the building was at 86% capacity as the school had 2,400 students. In 2019, Wright wrote "Krop’s star power has waned with the opening of other high school options, including
Alonzo and Tracy Mourning High School and
MAST". ==Campus==