Greenville County School District

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Greenville County School District (GCSD) is a public school district in Greenville County, South Carolina (USA). Greenville CSD also takes students from some areas of Spartanburg and Laurens counties.

Led by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Phinnize J. Fisher, GCSD serves 65,287 students and employs 4,589 faculty members spread across 83 schools and 12 special and early education centers. GCSD has an operating budget of $391 million .

1 Educational Structure
2 In the News
3 See also
4 External links
5 Notes

[edit] Educational Structure

GCSD students attend schools based primarily on the geographic location of their homes. Schools of a lower level 'feed into' a certain school of the next highest level, meaning that students leaving the lower level schools attend the higher level school. Exceptions to the feeder system are students wishing to enroll in the magnet schools programs offered in 12 schools,^[1] or those who participate in the International Baccalaureate, whis is offered in its three levels at four clusters over the county.^[2] Parents of students may also request transfers out of their students' assigned schools for various reasons (such as to take classes unique to a particular school).

During the 2005-2005 school year 3,555 students graduated from GCSD High Schools. Out of these 86.3% pursued higher education, with a scholarship total of $63.2 million.

[edit] In the News

In 2006 21% of the 22,850 AP exams completed in South Carolina were taken by Greenville County students. The percentage of exams qualifying for college credit increased from 43% to 48% (2,192 of 4,568 exams).

In 2005, six Greenville County elementary schools and two middle schools were identified in a study released by the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC) Monday as reducing the achievement gap for at least one historically underachieving student group.^[3]

[edit] See also

List of school districts in South Carolina

[edit] External links

Greenville CSD homepage

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