Riverside 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.

Riverside High is a Greenville County Schools high school at 794 Hammett Bridge Road, at the corner of Suber Road, in southwest Greer. It is the largest of the three district high schools with Greer addresses and earned an Excellent overall rating, 82 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 report card. The district’s profile says the school was founded in 1973 and moved into its present three-story building in fall 2006.

Who to call

• Front office: 864-355-7800, 794 Hammett Bridge 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: Riverside High on Google Sites

Principal

Principal Darah Huffman, according to the school’s administration page.

Enrollment and teachers

• State count: 1,813 students in 2025-26, according to the state’s report card. The district’s 2026-27 profile lists 1,839.
• Federal count: 1,816 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 20 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 Excellent means school performance substantially 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: Excellent, 82 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 Excellent, with 79 points, on the 2024-25 report card.

• Four-year graduation rate: 97.3% in 2026, after 95.4% in 2025 and 95.3% in 2024 (district: 92.2% in 2026)
• College or career ready: 97.1% of the graduating class (district: 90.5%)
• End-of-course tests, share scoring A, B or C: English 84.2%, Algebra 92.6%, Biology 80.7% and U.S. History 76.3%
• AP and dual enrollment: 40.8% of the graduating class met the state’s college-ready mark through AP exams and 44.3% 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 130 named subdivisions for Riverside High, from two middle schools: Riverside Middle and Northwood Middle in Taylors. At the elementary level they come from the Woodland, Buena Vista, Brushy Creek, Brook Glenn and Taylors elementary zones.

Not every Riverside Middle student goes on to Riverside High: the same list zones some Riverside Middle subdivisions for Mauldin High, J.L. Mann Academy or Greer High. The list covers named neighborhoods, not every address, so confirm a specific home in the lookup.

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 school’s 2026-27 bell schedules (PDF) run four blocks, with four lunches in third block, and say students are not allowed in the academic wings until 8:35 a.m. without a pass. On the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month an advisory period runs 10:15 to 10:45 a.m.

Programs

The district’s profile lists the AP Capstone Diploma Program, 25 Advanced Placement courses, dual-credit courses in English, math, science, psychology, marketing, management and health science, a Teacher Cadet program and a health science partnership with the USC medical school at Prisma Health. Career programs are also open to Riverside students at the J. Harley Bonds Career Center, 505 N. Main St., according to the district.

Sports and activities

Riverside is a Class 4A school in Region 2 for the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 classification, with Gaffney, Greenville, Greer, Travelers Rest and Wade Hampton, according to the SCHSL reclassification lookup. The Warriors’ athletics website lists teams including football, volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, swimming, tennis, golf, track, cross country and wrestling. The district’s profile says the football stadium seats 3,500.

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 Riverside High serve?

Riverside High serves ninth grade through 12th grade.

What is Riverside High’s school rating?

Riverside High was rated Excellent, with 82 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 school report card, released in October 2026.

Which middle schools feed Riverside High?

Riverside Middle and Northwood Middle, according to the district’s Find Your School zoning data. Some Riverside Middle neighborhoods are zoned for Mauldin High, J.L. Mann Academy or Greer High instead.

What time does Riverside High start?

First block starts at 8:45 a.m. and the school day ends at 3:45 p.m., according to the school’s 2026-27 bell schedule.