There are 50 high schools and seven junior-senior high schools that report their data as single entities. The total enrollment at these schools in 1999 was 70,268. Adjusting for enrollment changes from year to year, we ranked the schools on a per capita basis by dividing each school's yearly total of expulsions and suspensions for drugs, alcohol and weapons by that school's enrollment for that year, then averaging the three annual rates. The top 10 schools accounted for 546 of the expulsions or suspensions - about 23 percent. The bottom 10 accounted for 163 - about 7 percent.
Schools ranking higher on the list tend to have smaller enrollments.
Based on 1999 figures, the average enrollment at the top 10 schools is 959 students. The same rate at the bottom school, Morristown Jr.-Sr. High School, was .15. The average area-wide rate was 1.12 per 100 students. Discipline for serious offenses accounted for only about 4 percent of those suspensions and expulsions - weapons alone accounted for fewer than one percent.