Police are currently on scene at the Miami High School and are reportedly wearing bullet proof vests after the threat of a shooting.
A police spokesman said officers were called at 11.40am after reports someone on the school grounds ‘made a threat’.
“If someone makes a threat at a school, we always take it seriously but at this stage it looks to be just a precaution,” he said.
Originally named South Coast District State High School, Miami High was officially opened in April, 1963.
It soon became known as Miami High and, after a number of years, the more compact name was officially adopted.
It was built to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding population on the Gold Coast. At the time, the only public high schools were Southport High School and Tweed River High School, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) apart, with the site of Miami High about midway between the two on the Gold Coast Highway at the very northern end of Miami.
