2024-25 Profile*

• Palmetto Gold Award
• Excellent Report Card Rating
• Cognia Accreditation: 50 Years of Excellence Award
• PTA National Parent Involvement School of Excellence
• PTA Parent Involvement School of Excellence
• SCASA School of Promise
• SC Drama Association Awards
• Palmetto Silver Award
• Award-winning custodial staff
• Duke Scholars and SC Junior Scholars
• Up to $10,000 in PTA mini-grants awarded to teachers
• SC Junior Scholars/Duke Tip Scholars
• State and District PTA Reflections winners
• United Way Campaign Award of Advancement

Grants received:

• SC State Library Grant
• Makerspace Grant
• MENSA Foundation Grant
• Livewell Greenville School Health Index Grant
• Grant through 3M partnership DonorsChoose - Over $100,000 in Donors Choose Grants
• Robotics Team Partnership with Synnex

Faculty consists of:

• First Runner Up GCS Teacher of the Year
• SC Middle School Counselor of the Year
• SCASL Paraprofessional of the Year
• Golden Apple Award Winners
• Writing Consultant for Low Country Reading Project
• Published Writers
• Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
• Greenville County Conservation Regional Winner
• VFW Post Teacher of the Year
• Published Illustrator
• National Board Certified teachers
• Distinguished Teachers of Reading
• Instructional Coach Institute Participants
• LEAD participants

64 Classrooms • 2 Large Athletic Fields • Band Room • Cafetorium with Stage • Choral Room • Speech and Drama Room • Conference Rooms • Gymnasium • Health Room • Media Center • Outdoor Track • Strings Room • Promethean Boards in all Content Classrooms • Gateway to Technology Robotics Lab • 3-D projector with science/math integrated curriculum • Personalized Learning Device for Every Student

• Administrators: 4
• Teachers/Professional Staff: 69
• Support Staff: 29

• High School credit awarded for:  Honors Algebra I, Honors English I,  Spanish I, Advanced Chorus, Advanced Band, Advanced Strings, Advanced Theatre, Advanced Art, Cyber Citizenship, Graphic Design, Creative Writing, Digital Publication Design, Fundamentals of Computing
• Award-winning Fine Arts Programs:  Superior with Distinction Band, Superior Chorus, Superior Strings, Visual Arts & Drama
• Yearbook Class
• Peer tutoring program
• Faculty common planning with Professional Learning Communities in all content areas
• National Junior Beta Club
• Special Olympics participants
• Media Center with over 13,000 books and a computer lab within the center
• CTE: Robotics, Movie Making club, Broadcast Journalism, Communication
• Community Service Programs/Community Partnerships: Greenville Animal Care Food Drive, United Way Drive, Fall Food Drive, Backpack Blessings, Candy for Soldiers Drive,  Greenville Family Practice, Kemet, Pelham Medical Center, Synnex, 3M
• Published author visits yearly
• Middle School Sports: Basketball, D-team Football, Soccer, Baseball, Volleyball, Softball, Intramurals
• Multimedia Capabilities, Promethean Boards in all classrooms
• Mock Trial
• Clubs: Student Council, Sandlappers, Movie Making, Girls Inspired, Wildcat for a Cause, Wildcat Steppers, Community Service, Yearbook, Robotics
• Student News Show
• Career Education Programs
• Lunch and Learn speakers
• Actively engaged PTA
• Community Mentor Program/Mental Health Partnership
• Student Incentive Programs
• Career-oriented related arts classes: Broadcast Journalism, Speech and Drama, Beginning Spanish, Gateway to Technology: Design and Modeling, Auto Robotics, Computer Science for Innovators
• High School Curriculum Nights