Greenville Senior High Academy, 1 Vardry St.: grades 9 to 12, 1,671 students in 2025-26, rated Excellent on the state report card.

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; magnet academies page; 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.

Greenville Senior High Academy is the city’s own high school, on Vardry Street on the south side of downtown, and one of Greenville County Schools’ magnet academies, with a magnet program in law, finance and business. It was rated Excellent, with 70 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 report card.

Who to call
Address 1 Vardry St., Greenville, SC 29601
Phone 864-355-5500
Grades 9 to 12
District Greenville County Schools
City of Greenville Inside the city limits
School hours 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
State school ID 2301008

Principal

Principal Dylan Hudson, according to the school’s administration page and principal’s welcome.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 1,671 students in the 2025-26 school year, according to the state’s report card data.
  • Federal count: 1,791 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 19 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, 70 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.”

Indicator 2025-26 rating
Academic achievement Excellent
Preparing for success Good
Graduation rate Excellent
College and career readiness Excellent
English learners’ progress Unsatisfactory
School climate Good
  • End-of-course tests, share scoring A, B or C: English 70.6%, Algebra 86.1%, Biology 60.1% and U.S. History 58.6% (district: 72.9%, 80%, 56.7% and 58.9%)
  • Four-year graduation rate: 92.1% for the class of 2026, after 92.1% in 2025 and 87.9% in 2024 (Greenville County Schools: 92.2%)
  • College or career ready: 89.4% of the 2026 graduating class (district: 90.5%)
  • College-ready routes: 34.7% through AP exams and 15.9% 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; 91 were zoned for Greenville Senior High Academy.

In the district’s 2026-27 subdivision list, the Greenville Senior High Academy zone takes in streets zoned for League Academy, Hughes Academy, Sevier Middle, Lakeview Middle, Greenville Middle Academy and Berea Middle for middle school, most often the first named. The elementary zones in it are Stone Academy, A.J. Whittenberg Elementary, Blythe Academy, Sara Collins Elementary, Augusta Circle Elementary, Cherrydale Elementary, Hollis Academy, East North Street Academy, Summit Drive Elementary, Alexander Elementary, Thomas E. Kerns Elementary and Monaview 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 gain of 12 students for Greenville Senior High Academy based on 2023-24 enrollment.

Programs

Greenville Senior High Academy of Law, Finance, and Business is one of Greenville County Schools’ magnet academies. The district’s magnet academies page says the program “offers broad exposure to the student’s chosen magnet strand through an in-depth study of various topics and engagement in problem-based learning activities that extend students’ understanding of legal, finance and business issues,” through activities such as Mock Trial, Business Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

Magnet seats are open to students across the county by application through the Backpack parent portal. Applications are scored on attendance, discipline and academic performance, siblings of current magnet students have priority in the first round, and a lottery is used when more students qualify than there are seats, according to the same page.

Calendar and school hours

Greenville Senior High Academy 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

Greenville is a Class 4A school in Region 2 for the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 classification, with Gaffney, Greer, Riverside, Travelers Rest and Wade Hampton, according to the SCHSL reclassification lookup.

The Red Raiders’ athletics website, greenvilleathleticzone.com, lists teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, girls flag football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball and wrestling, with boys and girls teams in most of them.

The school’s athletics site lists its Oct. 16 football game against Riverside at Sirrine Stadium.

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

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Greenville Senior High Academy serve?

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

What is Greenville Senior High Academy’s state report card rating?

Greenville Senior High Academy was rated Excellent, with 70 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 school report card, published in October 2026.

Which middle schools feed Greenville Senior High Academy?

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

What time does Greenville Senior High Academy start?

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