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Hi there.. we are seriously considering moving to the Greenville SC area from WI, and have been trying to do some research on high schools... I've read a lot but it's a bit overwhelming. Both of our kids will be entering high school next year and we would love some advice regarding the most desired public high school district to live in. It's so much better to get advice from locals, and we greatly appreciate any insight that you may have. Our kids are both good students and achieve good grades, so a school with a strong academic focus that also has students with good values, would be highly desirable. We have the flexibility to live anywhere in the Greenville area.
Many thanks in advance for your help!
That’s the great thing, we have total flexibility on that. Our preference was to pick the #1 high school district within a 10 mile radius of the city of Greenville itself. Does that help? Many thanks for any guidance you can provide ��
There are a lot of good high schools in the area. There are also quite a few that are not as good. Some schools to consider: Wade Hampton, Eastside, Riverside, Mauldin, and Blue Ridge in Greenville County. Powdersville and Wren in Anderson County. Byrnes in Spartanburg County.
I think those are most of the highly regarded schools within a 10 mile radius of the city of Greenville.
Eastside and Wade Hampton have been trading off the top spot for the past few years with Riverside coming in behind those two. Mauldin is also good, but it is HUGE (those three schools usually have graduting classes in the 300-400 ish range and Mauldin's last graduating class was over 600 I believe). The charter high schools are different animals and it can be difficult to get a spot as these are filled by an application (and those were already done- don't know how they handle summer moves to G'ville).
As far as Eastside and WHHS the way they structure their school day is the biggest difference. EHS- traditional 7 period day (can take 7 classes a day for the entire year) with an enrichment / lunch period hour in the middle of the day. WHHS- block schedule where a student can take 4 semester long classes (8 total for the year). WHHS also has the (by audition only) Fine Arts Center School next door, so the arts program at WHHS also benefits from that. Both schools are fairly diverse, both do huge fundraising weeks for charity each year, both desirable.
Riverside is more like Eastside (7 period day) than WHHS. Some think RHS is more "clique-y" since it draws from a less diverse, more wealthy geographic area.
Greenville county schools offers school choice- you can apply to go to ANY school no matter where you live but if it is out of the zoned area they don't provide busses. However I don't know if or how they open applications for the next school year for new moves into the county. I'd call Greenville County schools to get that question answered. - 864-355-3100
I wish you luck as it can be confusing looking at Greenville County schools. We have 16 public high schools and the 17th beginning construction next year.
'Four high schools — Wade Hampton, Mauldin, J.L. Mann and Eastside — each had more than 100 students qualifying as AP award winners in the 2016-17 school year.'
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