West Bolivar High School is a senior high school in

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West Bolivar Consolidated School District The West Bolivar Consolidated School District is a public school district based in Rosedale, Mississippi (USA). It serves sections of Bolivar County. In addition to Rosedale, the district also serves the towns of Gunnison, Beulah, and Pace i ...

(formerly the West Bolivar School District). In addition to Rosedale it serves Gunnison,

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, 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
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. 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.

History

The school, previously known as the Rosedale Consolidated School,Location Information (for the Rosedale Consolidated School)
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. Retrieved on July 3, 2017. opened in 1921.West Bolivar High School
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. Retrieved on July 3, 2017. 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'
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''. January 10, 2002. Retrieved on July 3, 2017. Linda Coleman, a Democratic member of the

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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, at 1213 South Main Street. West Bolivar High School moved to Building B of West Bolivar Middle. 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.

References

External links

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West Bolivar High School 7-12
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* - West Bolivar Consolidated School District * - West Bolivar School District Public high schools in Mississippi Public middle schools in Mississippi Schools in Bolivar County, Mississippi 1921 establishments in Mississippi Educational institutions established in 1921 Rosedale, Mississippi {{Mississippi-school-stub