Shaw High School

Set in SHAW, Mississippi, Shaw High School is an one-room-style high school, operated by West Bolivar Consolidated School District. It hosts 200 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 69% leaner than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Within West Bolivar Consolidated School District, which oversees 4 schools and 873 students, Shaw High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Shaw High School shows that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 15% multiracial. By comparison, Bolivar County as a whole is about 63% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Shaw High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Shaw High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.9%; this one comes in at 27.9%, -20.0 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Bolivar County shows the typical household earns roughly $39,585 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 27%. In all, Bolivar County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,415 students), of which Shaw High School is one.

The closest other public school is McEvans Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 55%: 129 students in 2018 compared to 200 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 99% to 84% over that span.

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