Eastside High, Greenville: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the school’s website; its administration page; Greenville County Schools’ Find Your School lookup and subdivision list; the district’s 2025-26 assignment plans; 2026-27 calendar and school hours; the S.C. Department of Education’s 2025-26 report card data; the federal NCES school directory; the Census Bureau’s city boundary; the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 reclassification and the school’s athletics site.

Eastside High, on Brushy Creek Road in Taylors, is outside the city of Greenville, but its zone takes in part of the city’s east side, according to the district’s zone lookup. The Eagles were rated Excellent, with 75 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 report card.

Who to call

• Front office: 864-355-2800, 1300 Brushy Creek Road
• School website: greenville.k12.sc.us/eastside/
• Enrolling a new student: online through a Backpack parent account; forms are on the district’s enrollment page. District InfoLine: 864-355-3100
• Which school is my address zoned for? the district’s Find Your School lookup
• Buses: the district’s transportation page

Principal

Principal Todd Stafford, according to the school’s administration page.

Enrollment and teachers

• State count: 1,458 students in the 2025-26 school year, according to the state’s report card data.
• Federal count: 1,528 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 78 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 year as Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average or Unsatisfactory. 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, according to the state’s report card site and the Education Oversight Committee’s accountability manuals.

2025-26 rating: Excellent, 75 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. An Excellent rating means school performance “substantially exceeds the criteria to ensure all students meet the Profile of the SC Graduate.”

• End-of-course tests, share scoring A, B or C: English 79.1%, Algebra 84.3%, Biology 56.9% and U.S. History 69.1% (district: 72.9%, 80%, 56.7% and 58.9%)
• Four-year graduation rate: 93.8% for the class of 2026, after 95.1% in 2025 and 90.5% in 2024 (Greenville County Schools: 92.2%)
• College or career ready: 92.4% of the 2026 graduating class (district: 90.5%)
• College-ready routes: 28.1% through AP exams and 18.8% through dual-enrollment courses, among 2026 graduates

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

Attendance zone

Check an address with the district’s Find Your School lookup. Greenville County Schools assigns students by subdivision, apartment complex and street address, and zones do not follow the city limits.

We ran 222 addresses spread across Greenville’s city limits through the lookup on Oct. 16; 9 were zoned for Eastside High.

In the district’s 2026-27 subdivision list, the Eastside High zone takes in streets zoned for Greenville Middle Academy, Northwood Middle and Hughes Academy for middle school, most often the first named. The elementary zones in it are Mitchell Road Elementary, Pelham Road Elementary, Brushy Creek Elementary, East North Street Academy, Brook Glenn Elementary, Buena Vista Elementary, Oakview Elementary, Augusta Circle Elementary and Lake Forest Elementary.

The Board of Trustees approved high school boundary changes for Eastside, Greenville Senior High and Wade Hampton on Oct. 22, 2024, as part of the plan for Reedy Laurel Elementary and other schools, according to the district’s board summary. The changes fill in one grade a year starting with ninth grade in 2025-26 and are complete in 2028-29, and younger siblings may stay with an older brother or sister at the old school. The district’s packet shows a loss of 2 students for Eastside High based on 2023-24 enrollment.

Calendar and school hours

Eastside High follows Greenville County Schools’ 2026-27 calendar. Coming dates from the district’s calendar file (all district calendars are on its calendars page):

• Monday, Nov. 2: no school for students (teacher development day)
• Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, student holiday
• Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
• Friday, Dec. 18: half day, end of the second quarter
• Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; Monday, Jan. 4, is a teacher development day, so students return Tuesday, Jan. 5

School hours: 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. for all Greenville County high schools, according to the district’s school hours page. Half days end at 1:15 p.m.

Sports and activities

Eastside is a Class 5A school in Region 1 for the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 classification, with Byrnes, Hillcrest, J.L. Mann, Mauldin and Woodmont, according to the SCHSL reclassification lookup.

The Eagles’ athletics website, eastsideathleticzone.com, lists teams in baseball, basketball, competitive cheer, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, volleyball and wrestling, with boys and girls teams in most of them, including boys volleyball. The site reports a 12th straight Class 5A boys swimming championship.

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

More

• The district’s profile of Eastside High
• Every public school in Greenville, with zones and report cards
• Our Greenville schools guide for the district calendar, enrollment and the school board
• Friday night football and the scoreboard

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Eastside High serve?

Eastside High serves ninth through 12th grade, according to Greenville County Schools.

What is Eastside High’s state report card rating?

Eastside High was rated Excellent, with 75 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 school report card, published in October 2026.

Which middle schools feed Eastside High?

In the district’s 2026-27 subdivision list, streets zoned for Greenville Middle Academy, Northwood Middle and Hughes Academy go on to Eastside High; check an exact address with Find Your School.

What time does Eastside High start?

Classes run 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., the hours Greenville County Schools sets for all its high schools.