COLUMBIA, S.C.

The 16-year-old African-American female student who was violently slammed, tossed and dragged across a classroom floor by a white school resource officer suffered multiple injuries during the incident, her attorney said.

Todd Rutherford told The New York Daily News last week that his client suffered injuries to her face, neck and arm during the Oct. 26 incident at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., that also resulted in her arm being put in a cast.

Conflicting reports circulated, including comments from Mr. Rutherford, about whether the student recently was orphaned and lives in foster care.

On Monday, Richland County, S.C., school officials said the 16-year-old and Niya Kenny, 18, who also was arrested after she intervened on behalf of her classmate, would not face school discipline and were free to return to class.

Mr. Rutherford did not say if the teenager plans to return to school.

However, Ms. Kenny has no intention of going back to Spring Valley High, attorney Simone R. Martin said.

“Her family is considering other options at this time, but has not made a final decision with regard to her future education plans,” she said.

Both students still face criminal misdemeanor charges of disturbing schools.

Cellphone videos captured by students in the classroom that went viral show former Sheriff’s Department Officer Ben Fields flipping the teenager backward to the ground in her desk, then tossing her several feet across the classroom.

One video shows the girl striking at the officer as he grabs her.

School officials said the classroom teacher and an administrator asked the officer to remove the student from class after she looked at her cellphone during class and refused their orders to leave the room.

Mr. Fields was fired two days after the incident.

The unidentified school administrator who called the officer is on paid leave, school district spokesperson Libby Roof said.

The mathematics teacher, who also was not identified by school officials, has been moved to another class, she added.

A substitute teacher handling the math class is expected to continue in that role until the civil rights investigations underway by the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office are finished, Ms. Roof said.