Greenbrier High School (GHS) is a comprehensive public high school serving more than 600 students in grades ten through twelve in

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. It is one of six public high schools in

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and is the sole high school administered by the Greenbrier School District. Greenbrier High School is the home of the pilot program that formed the national

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Academics

The school is accredited by the

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(ADE) and has been accredited by AdvancED (formerly North Central Association) since 1988.

Curriculum

The assumed course of study follows the Smart Core curriculum developed the

(ADE), which requires students to complete 22 credit units before graduation. Students engage in regular and

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(AP) coursework and exams. Greerbrier is affiliated with the Conway Area Career Center to support the students' career and technical education needs.

Awards and recognition

In 2011, Greenbrier School District and its high school were recognized in the ''AP District of the Year Awards'' program in the

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's 2nd Annual Honor Roll that consisted of 367 U.S. public school districts (4 in Arkansas) that simultaneously achieved increases in access to AP® courses for a broader number of students and improved the rate at which their AP students earned scores of 3 or higher on an AP Exam.

Extracurricular activities

The Greenbrier High School mascot is the

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with school colors of royal blue, black, and white.

Athletics

The Greenbrier Panthers participate in various interscholastic activities in the 5A West Conference administered by the

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. The school athletic activities include baseball, basketball (boys/girls), soccer (boys/girls), bowling, competitive cheer, cross country (boys/girls), football, golf (boys/girls), softball, swimming and diving (girls), tennis (boys/girls), volleyball, and wrestling (boy/girls). The girls basketball team won three consecutive state championships (1956, 1957, 1958) with a state-record team tournament points of 288 in 1958. In 1985, Brian Wiedower pitched the first perfect game in a state baseball tournament. In 2012, Greenbrier won the state's Student Angler Federation (SAF) High School Fishing State Championship.

Clubs and traditions

In 1995–96, first-year Greenbrier High School educator Tim Stephenson piloted a program that would go on to become the EAST (Environmental And Spatial Technologies) Initiative, which has grown to more than 200 high schools in Arkansas and other states.

Notable incidents

On March 14, 2018, during the 2018 United States gun violence protests, three students elected to receive corporal punishment in the form of two paddlings on the thighs for their participation in the walkout. This required parental consent, and was administered the same day.

References

External links

* {{authority control Public high schools in Arkansas Schools in Faulkner County, Arkansas