West Bolivar High School

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 and Pace,[1] and from 1986 to 2000 it served high school-aged residents of Benoit.

History

The school, previously known as the Rosedale Consolidated School,[2] opened in 1921.[3]

In the Lum v. Rice case a Chinese student, Martha Lum, unsuccessfully tried to enroll in classes at Rosedale Consolidated in the 1920s.[4] The school became racially integrated in 1970.[3]

Beginning in 1986 Benoit School District students did not attend Ray Brooks School (previously Nugent Center School, a.k.a. Benoit High School), but instead West Bolivar High. However high school classes at Ray Brooks resumed in 2000.[5] Linda Coleman, a Democrat 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.[6]

Campus

The building uses a Spanish architectural style.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. 1 2 "Location Information (for the Rosedale Consolidated School)." Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Retrieved on July 3, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "West Bolivar High School." West Bolivar Consolidated School District. Retrieved on July 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Black History Month: Gonglum v Rice (1927)". The Royal Gazette (Bermuda). 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  5. ↑ "Wilson hopes to break out the shoes'." Franklin County Times. January 10, 2002. Retrieved on July 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ Wright, Megan (2012-05-12). "Bill passes to consolidate Delta county's school districts". Mississippi Business Journal. Retrieved 2017-07-03. Coleman noted that West Bolivar and Benoit combined high schools for a time in the 1990s, but said transportation costs were too high.

Coordinates: 33°51′24″N 91°01′37″W / 33.8567°N 91.0270°W / 33.8567; -91.0270


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