Report on the Western Line Consolidated School District
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October 14, 1971
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INTHE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
GREENVILLE DIVISION
HENRY B. AYERS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
VS. Civil Action
No. GC 661-5
WESTERN LINE CONSOLIDATED
SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al.,
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REPORT
Pursuant to order entered in this cause on 9 February 1970,
defendants make the following report:
1) The number of students by race, in each grade in each
school within the district:
Grade Black White Total
Norma C. O'Bannon School:
1 114 17 131
2 73 10 83
3 63 13 76
4 57 10 67
5 59 15 74
6 60 10 70
7 98 17 115
8 i5 9 84
9 33. 9 92
10 : | 54 11 65
11. at ad : 8 42
12 os 9 35
Spec. Ed. 64 3 67
Grade Black White Total
Riverside School:
1 31 16 47
2 25 35 60
: 3 23 26 49
4 40 33 73
5 30 35 65
6 34 34 68
7 45 36 81
8 26 37 63
9 32 26 58
10 20 13 33
11 10 7 17
12 1) 15 26
Spec. Ed. wan fg ie
Total 327 313 640
Glen Allan School:
1 4 0 44
2 54 7 61
3 4d 8 52
4 | 36 10 46
5 52 3 55
6 48 7 55
7 60 4 64
8 30 3 35
9 : 36 6 42
10 = , =23 5 28
1} 19 2 21
12 8 2 13
Spec. Ed. = 1h ALO 16
Total 470 62 532
Grand Tot. 1,657 516 2,173
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2) The number of classroom teachers, teacher-aides, student
teachers, instructors, other personnel working directly with students,
and staff members by grade and race assigned to each school:
~ Grade
Norma C. O'Bannon School:
Mrenche rs
Teacher Aides
Total
Riverside School:
Teachers
Teacher Aides
Total
Glen Allan School:
Teachers
Teacher Aides
Total
Grand Total
Black White
36-1/3 16
3 3
39-.1/3 19
15-1/3 19-1/2
1 2
16-1/3 2¥-1/2
19-1/3 11-172
3 0 =
22-1/3 11-1/2
78 52
3) The number by race of staff members not included in 2) above:
Principal
Asst. Principal
Elementary
Supervisor
Total
Superintendent
ESEA Co-Ordinator
Lunchroom Supervisor
District Nurse
Nurse Aide
Speech Therapist
Secretaries
Black
Norma C. O'Bannon Riverside Glen Allan
White Black White Black White
0 0 1 0 1
(1)open 1 0 1 0
La 2 0 8 eX,
(1)open 1 1 2
District
Black White
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
2 4
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Black White
Bookkeepers 0 2
Total 2 32
4) Defendants have approved transfer of Sheila Martin, Grade 10
and Kay Martin, Grade 7, both white, residing on Airport Road, Greenville,
Mississippi, a short distance fron O'Bannon Attendance Center, from
Greenville Municipal Separate School District to Norma C. O'Bannon
Attendance Center, Western Line Consolidated School District. The father
of these children is 2h lavalid and one of the children suffers from
epilepsy. The family has no transportation id the school to which the
children were assigned in the Greenville District n located several miles
away. It is necessary, on occasion, for the mother to pick up the child
when taken with an epileptic fit. This transfer was approved by the
defendant Board on a hardship basis as a matter within their discretion.
5) The defendant Board has approved a transfer of Timothy
Michael Spurgeons, a member of the white race, residing at 2666 Old
Leland Road, Greenville, Mississippi to the Greenville Municipal Separate
School District, subject to acceptance by the latter. This child had been
attending the Cerebral Palsy School in Greenville, not a part of the public
school system, whith has been closed. Greenville has facilities for
educating exceptional children which the defendant, Western Line, lacks.
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Greenville, Mississippi 38701
Attorney for Defendants
CERTIFICATE
I, J. Robertshaw, attorney for the defendants, do hereby certify -
that I have this day served the foregoing Report upon plaintiffs by mailing
copies of the same, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:
This
RUEBEN V, ANDERSON
FRED L. BANKS, JR.
MELVYN R. LEVENTHAL
538-1/2 North Farish Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39202
JACK GREENBERG
JONATHAN SHAPIRO
Suite 2030
Ten Columbus Circle
New York, New York 10019
JAMES IL... ROBERTSON
Campbell, Delong, Keady & Robertson
P, O, Box 895
Greenville, Mississippi
J. WESLEY MILLER
Attorney at Law
Rolling Fork, Mississippi
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