WHITE PLAINS (AP) - A jury has awarded an upstate New York family $1.25 million in damages after finding that local school-district officials failed to adequately protect their son from racial harassment for more than three years.

The case in federal court in White Plains was filed by the mixed Latino and white parents of Anthony Zeno.

Family attorney Stephen Bergstein says Anthony is "very dark-skinned," and that white students at Stissing Mountain High School taunted him and made racially motivated threats.

The jury found on Friday that school district officials didn't take sufficient steps to protect him from racial harassment while he was a student. He graduated in 2008.

Pine Plains Central School District board says it's "stunned" by the jury's verdict.