Girl Arrested After Striking Vice Principal : School Violence: Burbank police say the attack occurred during a fight between two students. A similar incident in October led to a teachers’ walkout.

A 15-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday after she struck and kicked the vice principal of David Starr Jordan Junior High School in Burbank as the administrator tried to stop her from hitting another girl, Burbank police said.

The incident was similar to a high school fracas that led to a one-day walkout by Burbank high school teachers in October.

Neither the vice principal, Lynn Mingori, 52, nor the other girl, 14, apparently were injured in the brief fight during a snack break in the school’s cafeteria about 10:25 a.m., police and school officials said.

The 15-year-old apparently kicked and punched the 14-year-old because both were attracted to the same boy, Sgt. Don Goldberg said. All three are in the ninth grade, officials said.

Goldberg said the 15-year-old girl refused to stop fighting when Mingori yelled at her to do so.

When Mingori tried to separate the girl from the 14-year-old, the older girl struck Mingori once in the right shoulder and kicked her twice in the left leg, Goldberg said. She continued striking the other girl until a plainclothes Burbank police officer heard Mingori shout for help and broke up the fight, Goldberg said.

The officer works at the school full time under a city program to educate youngsters about law enforcement, Goldberg said.

Principal Al Martens said it was unclear whether the girl intended to assault Mingori. “It involved some kicking and the question is whether . . . the girl was kicking out, kicking at the vice principal or kicking, trying to get to the other student.”

Police arrested the girl on suspicion of battery on school grounds and released her to her parents pending an investigation by juvenile authorities, Goldberg said.

School officials on Wednesday suspended the girl and recommended expulsion proceedings against her, said Arthur N. Pierce, Burbank Unified School District superintendent. The Burbank Board of Education is expected to meet early next month to decide whether to expel the girl, he said.

Burbank teachers in October staged a one-day class boycott to protest the board’s refusal to expel a John Burroughs High School student accused of striking a teacher and threatening to kill him and another teacher when they tried to break up a fight between two students. The 16-year-old boy last week pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge and is scheduled to be sentenced in January.

Sid Jurman, president of the Burbank Teachers Assn., which protested the board’s decision not to expel the boy in October, said he was unfamiliar with details of Wednesday’s incident and could not comment on it.