The school is commonly referred to as GHS and is home to the Greenville Comets sports teams.
History
Greenville has had a high school for 138 years, with the first "Greenville High School" created in 1869.[3] The school was begun under the auspices of Samuel Inglis, who would later become the state superintendent of schools. The first building was torn down and a new Central School erected on Second Street in 1894. By 1915, a new school building was located at Beaumont and Wyatt streets. The current building was constructed in 1956; the former Beaumont building was used as Greenville Junior High after the new high school was built. As the new high school opened, high schools in Pocahontas and Sorento closed and those students began attending GHS.
The yearbook is named The Graduate and has been published since 1918.[3] The school newspaper was originally called The G Whiz, later The GHS Times and then called The Comet Spirit.
Country music star Gretchen Wilson attended Greenville High School but did not graduate.
Classes
Students can take a variety of classes at the school. Students who prefer to study vocational trades can take a bus to Vandalia and attend classes there at Okaw Valley Vocational Center. The building trades class at the center each year purchases property in Vandalia, builds a house, and re-sells it; they have sold 33 homes this way.[4]
Library
The school employs one full-time librarian; students can serve as workers in the library during their study periods.
Students can use the online reference resources, such as OCLC, from school or home to access the billion periodicals that OCLC WorldCat provides access to as research resources. Additionally, as a member of the regional Lewis & Clark Library System and the statewide system IShare (formerly Illininet) and statewide database, the library also provides students with access to thousands of books from hundreds of school, public, and college libraries by way of interlibrary loan.
Each student who wants one is issued a library card and is responsible for all materials checked out on that card. Fines are charged for overdue books.