Greenville County School District
| Greenville County School District | |
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301 E. Camperdown Way, Greenville, South Carolina United States |
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| District information | |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Established | August 23, 1951 |
| Superintendent | W. Burke Royster |
| Schools | 101 |
| Budget | $536.7 million |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | ~76,000 |
| Teachers | ~5,000 teachers |
| Staff | 9,800 employees |
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| Website | www |
Greenville County School District (GCSD) is a public school district in Greenville County, South Carolina (USA). It is the largest school district in the state of South Carolina and the 44th largest in the US. Greenville CSD also takes students from some areas of Spartanburg and Laurens counties. Led by Superintendent of Schools W Burke Royster, GCSD serves over 76,000 students and employs 9,800 people spread across 84 schools and 17 specialty and early education centers. GCSD has an operating budget of $536.7 million for the 2014 - 2015 school year. GCSD has 13 National Blue Ribbon Schools, 9 Newsweek's Best High Schools, 21 Carolina First Palmetto's Finest Schools, 48 Red Carpet Schools, and 29 National PTA Schools of Excellence. GCSD is the State leader in school choice, featuring schools of various sizes in urban, suburban and rural settings, and magnet academies offering specialized studies in areas such as communications arts, languages, the arts, and science and mathematics. About 15% of their 72,000 students take advantage of school choice to match their needs and interests.
At the end of World War II, Greenville County had 86 school districts. The smallest was a one-room school; the two largest, Parker and Greenville City, served two-thirds of the student population.
On August 23, 1951 the Greenville County Board of Education, chaired by J. B. League, established the School District of Greenville County and appointed nine trustees, with A. D. Asbury as chair. Dr. William F. Loggins was the first superintendent. An educational program of greater equality began to emerge, mainly by consolidating smaller schools.
In 1963, the local NAACP filed suit in the federal district court, for the children of A. J. Whittenberg and five other blacks to attend all-white schools. They were represented by Willie Smith and Matthew Perry, while the district was represented by its attorney E. P. (Ted) Riley. On April 14, after a federal judge gave the school board thirty days to reconsider, Superintendent Marion T. Anderson announced that fifty-five black students would be transferred to sixteen white schools in 1964.
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