Greenville Senior High School (also known as Greenville Senior High Academy, GHS, GSHS, Greenville Senior High Academy of Law, Finance, and Business, and Greenville High Academy) is a medium-sized
secondary school
A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...
and
magnet school
In the U.S. education system, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. Normally, a student will attend an elementary school, and this also determines the middle school and high school they attend unless they mo ...
located in
Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville ( ; ) is a city in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 70,720 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in South Carolina, sixth-most pop ...
.
Traditions and extracurriculars
Greenville has a rivalry with
J.L. Mann High School. During "spirit week", a week-long charity event typically held in September, Greenville and J.L. Mann compete to raise more money than each other through extracurricular school events and activities. At the end of spirit week, a football game between the two schools is held, during which the amount of money both schools raised is revealed at the half.
Greenville has many clubs that students are able to join, including spirit club, book club, film club, theatre team, foreign language clubs (Spanish, French, Latin), step team, and many more.
Greenville holds a fall homecoming dance, in addition to a homecoming football game, and a spring promenade dance. During homecoming week, there are several dress-up days for students to participate in.
Greenville's theatre department presents biannual productions: a play in the fall and a musical in the spring. Any student who attends the school is able to audition for a role in these productions and apply for backstage positions. These productions have typically had three shows (two at night Friday and Saturday and one matinee Sunday), but starting with spring 2024's ''
Hairspray,'' the musicals have started having four showings (three at night Thursday to Saturday and one matinee Sunday).
Notable alumni
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Rudolf Anderson – first recipient of the
Air Force Cross
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Harry Ashmore – journalist
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Robert T. Ashmore - U.S. Congressional Representative for South Carolina
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Mazeo Bennett – football player
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Phillip Boykin
Phillip Boykin (sometimes credited as Phillip Lamar Boykin) (born November 2, 1968) is an American Tony Award nominated actor and bass-baritone singer. He is most well known for portraying Hades in the Broadway theatre, Broadway production of Hades ...
– singer, actor
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Carroll A. Campbell Jr. – governor of
South Carolina
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Sarah Cunningham – actress
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Dick Dietz – professional baseball player
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Charles Fernley Fawcett – soldier, airman, actor
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Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. – inventor
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Clement Haynsworth
Clement Furman Haynsworth Jr. (October 30, 1912 – November 22, 1989) was a United States federal judge, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was also an Unsuccessful nominations to the Supr ...
– U.S. federal judge
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Dick Hendley – professional football player
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John D. Hollingsworth – businessman, inventor, philanthropist
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David Jones – professional football player
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Tommy Jones - professional bowler
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Herman Lay – chairman and chief executive officer of Frito-Lay
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Douglas Leigh – advertising executive
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Gabriel H. Mahon Jr. – U.S. congressional representative for South Carolina
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James Mann – U.S. congressional representative for South Carolina
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Jim Mattos – member of South Carolina House of Representatives
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Raven I. McDavid Jr. – American English linguist
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Sandi Morris –
Olympic pole vault medalist
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Robert G. Owens Jr., Major general, U.S. Marine Corps and
flying ace
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Emile Pandolfi – pianist
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Richard Riley – governor of South Carolina,
U.S. Education Secretary
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Rory Scovel – comedian, actor, and writer
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Bennie Lee Sinclair – poet, novelist, writer
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Carson Spiers – baseball player
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Butch Taylor
Butch Taylor (born Clarence Francis Taylor on April 13, 1961) is a composer, writer, keyboardist and long time guest musician with Dave Matthews Band.
Early life
Butch Taylor was born in Shawsville, Virginia on April 13, 1961. Taylor attended J ...
– professional basketball player
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Nick Theodore – lieutenant governor of South Carolina
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George Tindall – historian, author
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Charles H. Townes – physicist, inventor
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John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a List of psychological schools, psychological school.Cohn, Aaron S. 2014.Watson, J ...
– psychologist
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David H. Wilkins – attorney, politician, ambassador
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William Walter Wilkins – U.S. federal judge
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Joanne Woodward – Academy Award-winning actress
References
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Educational institutions established in 1938
High schools in Greenville, South Carolina
Public high schools in South Carolina
1938 establishments in South Carolina
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