Greer High, Greer: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the school’s website; Greenville County Schools’ 2026-27 profile for the school, Find Your School zoning data, 2026-27 calendar and school hours; the S.C. Department of Education’s 2025-26 report card and report card data file; and the federal NCES school directory; the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 classification.

Greer High is a Greenville County Schools high school on 105 acres north of downtown, at 3000 E. Gap Creek Road, next door to Greer Middle. It earned a Good overall rating, 65 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 report card, with Excellent marks for college and career readiness and school climate. The district’s profile says the school moved into its present building in 1998 and is accredited as an International Baccalaureate World School.

Who to call

• Front office: 864-355-5700, 3000 E. Gap Creek Road
• Enrolling a new student: online through a Backpack parent account, as the district’s enrollment page explains. District INFOLine: 864-355-3100
• Which school is my address zoned for? the district’s Find Your School lookup
• Buses: the district’s Transportation Department, 864-355-1289, on the transportation page
• School website: greenville.k12.sc.us/greerhs

Principal

Principal Andrew Baker, according to the school’s administration page and the district’s profile. Justin Ludley, listed as principal in the state’s 2024-25 report card data, is now listed by the district as principal of Wade Hampton High.

Enrollment and teachers

• State count: 1,380 students in 2025-26, according to the state’s report card. The district’s 2026-27 profile lists 1,402.
• Federal count: 1,413 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 18 students per teacher.

State report card

South Carolina rates every public school each fall as Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average or Unsatisfactory. The state’s report card site says Good means school performance exceeds the criteria to ensure all students meet the Profile of the SC Graduate. The overall rating is built from indicators such as academic achievement, preparing for success, student progress, English learners’ progress and school climate, with graduation rate and college and career readiness added for high schools.

2025-26 rating: Good, 65 points. On the state’s high school scale, Excellent 67 to 100, Good 60 to 66, Average 51 to 59, Below Average 40 to 50 and Unsatisfactory 39 and below. The school was rated Good, with 64 points, on the 2024-25 report card.

• Four-year graduation rate: 89.5% in 2026, after 87.9% in 2025 and 83.4% in 2024 (district: 92.2% in 2026)
• College or career ready: 88.9% of the graduating class (district: 90.5%)
• End-of-course tests, share scoring A, B or C: English 60.3%, Algebra 73%, Biology 43.2% and U.S. History 50%
• AP, IB and dual enrollment: 16% of the graduating class met the state’s college-ready mark through AP exams, 2.9% through IB and 27.4% through dual-enrollment courses

The full 2025-26 report card, with results by student group, teacher data, safety and spending, is on the state’s SC School Report Cards site. The state released the 2025-26 report cards in October 2026.

Attendance zone

Check an address in the district’s Find Your School lookup. The district’s 2026-27 subdivision list for the tool zones 170 named subdivisions for Greer High. Nearly all of them are zoned for Greer Middle; four subdivisions in the Crestview Elementary area and one in the Woodland area are zoned for Riverside Middle, and three for Blue Ridge Middle, before Greer High.

At the elementary level the Greer High zone takes in all of the Chandler Creek zone, nearly all of Crestview, part of Taylors Elementary and parts of Skyland and Woodland. The subdivision list covers named neighborhoods, not every address, so confirm a specific home in the lookup. Greer’s Spartanburg County side is in Spartanburg District Five and zoned for Byrnes High.

Calendar and school hours

Every Greenville County school follows the district’s 2026-27 student calendar. Coming days off for students:

• Monday, Nov. 2: teacher development day
• Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day
• Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
• Friday, Dec. 18: half-day for students
• Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; Monday, Jan. 4, is a teacher development day
• March 22-26: spring break
• Thursday, May 27, 2027: last day of school, a half-day

Weather closings follow the district’s inclement weather process.

School hours: 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., the same as every Greenville County high school, according to the district’s school hours page. The school’s bell schedules (PDF) run four blocks from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., with three lunches in third block, and a two-hour delay schedule that starts at 10:45 a.m.

Programs

The district’s profile lists an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, Advanced Placement courses in English, math, science and social studies, five dual-credit courses through Greenville Technical College, a Teacher Cadet program through Clemson University, and career and technical courses in global logistics, health sciences, agriculture and advanced manufacturing. Students can take further career programs at the J. Harley Bonds Career Center, 505 N. Main St., which the district says serves students from Blue Ridge, Eastside, Greer, Riverside and Wade Hampton high schools. AFJROTC is available through a partnership with Blue Ridge High, and the school has a ninth-grade Freshman Academy.

Sports and activities

Greer is a Class 4A school in Region 2 for the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 classification, with Gaffney, Greenville, Riverside, Travelers Rest and Wade Hampton, according to the SCHSL reclassification lookup. The Yellow Jackets’ athletics website lists teams including football, volleyball, girls flag football, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, cross country, swimming, tennis, golf and wrestling. The district’s profile says the football stadium seats 5,100.

Schedules and results are in our Friday night football guide and on our scoreboard.

More

• The school’s website and the district’s school profile
• Every public school in Greer, with zones and report cards
• Our Greer schools guide for the district calendar, enrollment and the school board

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Greer High serve?

Greer High serves ninth grade through 12th grade.

What is Greer High’s school rating?

Greer High was rated Good, with 65 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 school report card, released in October 2026. It was rated Good the year before.

Which middle school feeds Greer High?

Greer Middle, next door on East Gap Creek Road. A few subdivisions zoned for Riverside Middle or Blue Ridge Middle also go on to Greer High, according to the district’s Find Your School data.

What time does Greer High start?

Classes run 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., the district’s hours for every Greenville County high school.