After the 2010 Haiti earthquake , North Miami High enrolled 88 survivors , the largest number of any MDCPS school . North Miami is a center of middle class Haitian Americans and most of the survivors who came to the Miami area were middle class . Michael Winerip of '' The New York Times '' interviewed 10 survivors at North Miami . They all indicated that the academic work at North Miami was less rigorous than the work at their private Haitian schools . After the earthquake , eight of the interviewed students reached Miami by flying on commercial airline services out of airports in the Dominican Republic . All of the students had visas to reside in the U.S. , and many had previously spent summer vacations in Miami
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
North Miami High School