Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sungai Tiram is a public school that provides secondary level education located in the zone of Ulu Tiram, at the northwest end of the Pasir Gudang District, Johor. The school operates within the administration of the Pasir Gudang District Education Office (Pejabat Pendidikan Daerah Pasir Gudang) and the Malaysian Ministry of Education. The school's construction first began in 2009 and was completed then officiated in 2011. The school's first principal, Puan Hajah Zubaidah administered the school in its first year of operation alongside30 teaching and office staffs, providing quality education to about 350 students.

The school reaches its second year of operation with Puan Robiah binti Ahamad as its second principal, followed by En Muhamad Ali Bin Harun as the third principal, En Abdul Aziz Bin Awang as the fourth, and En Aminudin Bin Daud as the fifth principal with the number of teachers and office staffs increasing up to about 70 and the students enrolment went up as high as 1000 students. Leading the school presently is SMK Sungai Tiram's sixth principal, En Hj Johan Bin Ahmad, with a total of 70 teaching staffs, 8 support staffs and 1100 students.