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36There were 1,763 students, suspended for 6,276 days, who are included in the total for Willingboro, but for whom no racial or ethnic
identification was reported.
37Because 1972-1973 enrollment figures were not available for Woodbury, 1973-1974 enrollment data from Form OSICR 101 were
used.
38There were 5,290 students, suspended for 17,243 days, who are included in the total, but for whom no racial or ethnic identification
on students suspended andlor suspension days were reported.
39Because no suspension days were reported for the schools in Downe Township, the suspensions should not be counted when comparisons
of suspensions and suspension days are made.
40Because neither Downe Township nor Roselle provided a racial or ethnic breakdown of suspended students' the enrollments in these
two districts (2,267 White, 1,432 black, 91 Spanish-surnamed American) were not counted when the percentage of students suspended,
by race and ethnic group, in the surveyed districts was computed.
41 There are 229 students in Cincinnati who were suspended for 687 days who are included in the total, but for whom no racial or
ethnic identification was reported.
42There are 219 students in Mt. Healthy who were suspended for 882 days who are included in the total, but for whom no racial or
ethnic identification was reported.
43There is a significant discrepancy here between reported suspensions and suspension days because for some of the schools in this
district both out-of-school and in-school suspensions (for which there are no suspension days) were recorded. Where it was possible to
distinguish, in-school suspensions were not included in the count.
44There are 27 students in Youngstown who were suspended for 79 days who are included in the total, but fnr whom no racial or
ethnic identification was reported.
4SThere are a total of 475 students (suspended for 1,648 days) in three districts who are included in the total number of students
suspended but for whom no racial or ethnic identification was provided.
46Because the Columbus School District reported that no information was available regarding suspensions, the enrollmen t in Columbus
was not included when the percentages were computed.
47The suspension figures for individual districts were drawn from the table entitled ·Student Suspensions and Expulsions in South
Carolina School Districts, 1972-1973" at pp. 14-16 of ·Do Unto Others ... A Report on School Districts' Compliance With South
Carolina's 1973 'Student Discipline Law' ", Your Schools, Special Report, April 1974, published by the South Carolina Community
Relations Program of the American Friends Service Committee. The figures in that table were taken from the School Systell\ Summary
Reports (Form OSICR 101, Item VlI.B.) submitted to the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in
tbe fall of 1973.
48Students who were recorded in the table in Your Schools as ·other" were identified further by checking back to the School System
Summary Report (Form OSICR 101, Item V1I.B.).
49·0ther" includes students identified on Form OSICR 101 as American Indian or Asian American.
sONo racial breakdown of the 16 suspensions reported in Anderson County No.4 was included in Item V1I.B. on Form OSICR 10!.
SI The enrollment figures here do not include two schools which were recorded as being in RiChland County No.1 in the Directory
ofPublic Elementary and Secondary Schools in Selected Districts, Fall 1972, p. 1264, but were not in fact part of the public school
system. The two schools, John G. Richards for Boys and Willow Lane School for Girls, are correctional institutions.
S2The figures for the Saluda County School District include enrollment and suspension figures for Hollywood School District No.4
which was operative during the 1972-1973 school year but is no longer operative.
S3The total includes 16 students who were suspended in Anderson County No.4 for whom no racial breakdown was reported.
s4Because Anderson County No.4 did not provide a racial breakdown of suspended students, the white enrollment (1,520) in the
district was not counted when the percent of white students suspended in the surveyed districts was computed.
sSBecause Anderson County No..4 did not provide a racial breakdown of suspended students, the black enrollment (737) in the district
was not counted when the percent of black students suspended in the surveyed district was computed.
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