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.
In addition to Rosedale it serves Gunnison and Pace, and from 1986 to 2000 it served high school-aged residents of Benoit.

History

The school, previously known as the Rosedale Consolidated School, opened in 1921.
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 did not attend Ray Brooks School, but instead West Bolivar High. However high school classes at Ray Brooks resumed in 2000. 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.

Campus

The building uses a Spanish architectural style.