Phone +1 662-759-3525 | Number of schools 4 | |
Address 909 Highway 8, Post Office Box 198, Rosedale, MS 38769, United States | ||
The West Bolivar Consolidated School District is a public school district based in Rosedale, Mississippi (USA).
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In addition to Rosedale, the district also serves the towns of Gunnison, Beulah, and Pace in western Bolivar County and Benoit, Mississippi and Shaw, Mississippi in southern Bolivar County, Mississippi. .
Schools
2006-07 school year
There were a total of 1,014 students enrolled in the West Bolivar School District during the 2006-2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 48% female and 52% male. The racial makeup of the district was 95.86% African American, 3.35% White, and 0.79% Hispanic. 88.5% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch.
History
In 1925, 9-year-old Martha Lum was denied admission to Rosedale Consolidated High School (now West Bolivar High School) because she was Chinese American. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Mississippi's right to exclude her in Lum v. Rice. That decision was overturned in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.