For weeks, Armani Richards sat in the Jefferson High School auditorium waiting to be assigned classes for his senior year. The student body president wanted to enroll in subjects that would help him pursue a career in chemistry or computer science.

But a malfunctioning computer records system meant that Richards and hundreds of other students weren’t getting the classes they needed. Some were sent to overbooked classrooms or were given the same course multiple times a day. Others were assigned to “service” periods where they did nothing at all. Still others were sent home.

“Everything had gone so wrong,” Richards, 17, said.

On Wednesday, a Superior Court judge ordered state education officials to fix the problem at Jefferson High immediately, ruling that students were being deprived of their right to an education.

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