West Bolivar High School is a senior high school in Rosedale, Mississippi, and a part of the West Bolivar Consolidated School District (formerly the West Bolivar School District).
In addition to Rosedale it serves Gunnison, Pace, and Symonds, and from 1986 to 2000 it served high school-aged residents of Benoit and Scott."SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Bolivar County, MS." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on August 2, 2017. Note that the Benoit and Shaw districts have since consolidated into West Bolivar. Gunnison and Pace were in the pre-merger West Bolivar School District. Symonds was too but its location is not on the 2010 map, though it is on the 2020 map: - Benoit and Scott (only pictured in the 2020 map) are in the former Benoit school district, which from 1986 to 2000 sent high school students to West Bolivar High. It was formerly known as Rosedale Consolidated School.
History The school, previously known as the Rosedale Consolidated School,"Location Information (for the Rosedale Consolidated School)." Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Retrieved on July 3, 2017. opened in 1921."West Bolivar High School." West Bolivar Consolidated School District. Retrieved on July 3, 2017. It was founded during the Jim Crow era, and was a segregated white school. In the Lum v. Rice case a Chinese student, Martha Lum, unsuccessfully tried to enroll in classes at Rosedale Consolidated in the 1920s. The school became racially integrated in 1970.
Beginning in 1986 Benoit School District students at the high school level did not attend Ray Brooks School (previously Nugent Center School, a.k.a. Benoit High School), which continued to serve prior grades, but instead West Bolivar High. However high school classes at Ray Brooks resumed in 2000."Wilson hopes to break out the shoes'." Franklin County Times. January 10, 2002. Retrieved on July 3, 2017. Linda Coleman, a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from Mound Bayou, stated that the costs of transporting children to West Bolivar from Benoit were too high.
Previously West Bolivar HS was at 505 North Main Street. In 2020 the district decided to move West Bolivar High into the West Bolivar Middle complex, - MP3 format at 1213 South Main Street. West Bolivar High School moved to Building B of West Bolivar Middle. - Alternate URL Now West Bolivar High is a unified 7-12 school. at 1213 South Main Street. The unified 7-12 high school occupies the former middle school building.
Campus The pre-2020 building uses a Spanish architectural style.
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External links "West Bolivar High School 7-12." West Bolivar Consolidated School District - West Bolivar Consolidated School District - West Bolivar School District