Greenwich High School is a four-year public high school in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The school is part of the Greenwich Public Schools system and serves roughly 2,700 students.It offers over 295 courses and a wide variety of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Greenwich High School was ranked by Newsweek among the 100 top U.S. high schools in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.Curriculum structureGreenwich High School offers 47 Advanced Placement courses and a variety of honors courses and electives. Students are required to complete four credits or years of English/Language Arts courses, three credits each of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies, two credits of Foreign Language, one-and-a-half credits of art or business, one credit of physical education, one-half credit of wellness, and six credits of electives . In the school course guide, additional requirements include the following:The social studies requirements include a full year of American History, and semester courses in Civics and Contemporary America.The science requirements must include one credit in a biological science and one credit in a physical science .The arts requirements must include one and one half credits in any of the following areas: visual art, business, family and consumer sciences, human development, media, music, technology education, and theater arts.To be eligible for a Greenwich High School diploma, a student must have attended Greenwich High School for at least one full semester immediately prior to graduation. Students are allowed to take general elective courses all four years at GHS, but are only allowed to take certain subject electives in junior and senior years.
