As of the 2019–2020 school year, the district, led by Superintendent Dr. W Burke Royster, serves 76,964 students[2] from Greenville; and some parts of Laurens and Spartanburg counties.

The smallest was a one-room school; the two largest, Parker and Greenville City, served two-thirds of the student population.

League, established the School District of Greenville County and appointed nine trustees, with A. D. Asbury as chair.

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 Black students to attend all-white schools.

Integration did not go smoothly and in May 1968 the state supreme court declared freedom of choice plans unacceptable.

[1] GCSD students attend schools based primarily on the geographic location of their homes.