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School Shootings This Year: How Many and Where

澳门跑狗论坛鈥檚 2024 School Shooting Tracker
January 04, 2024 | Updated: December 19, 2024 3 min read
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School shootings鈥攖errifying to students, educators, parents, and communities鈥攁lways reignite polarizing debates about gun rights and school safety. To bring context to these debates, 澳门跑狗论坛 journalists began tracking shootings on K-12 school property that resulted in firearm-related injuries or deaths.

In 2024, we continue this heartbreaking,鈥痓ut important work. More information about this tracker and our methodology is below.

There have been 39 school shootings this year that resulted in injuries or deaths, according to an 澳门跑狗论坛 analysis. There have been 221 such shootings since 2018. There were 38 school shootings with injuries or deaths last year. There were 51 in 2022, 35 in 2021, 10 in 2020, and 24 each in 2019 and 2018.

Latest Situation

On December 16, in the final week before the Christmas break, a 15-year-old female high school student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, a private Christian school in Madison, Wis., killing a teacher and a classmate, and injuring six others.

Injuries & Deaths

39     School shootings with injuries or deaths

77     People killed or injured in a school shooting

18     People killed

8     Students or other children killed

10     School employees or other adults killed

59     People injured

Where the Shootings Happened

The size of the dots correlates to the number of people killed or injured. Click on each dot for more information.

About the Shootings

Click on the column names to sort the data.

Contact Information

For media or research inquiries about this data, contact library@educationweek.org.

About This Tracker

In the emotionally charged aftermath of school shootings, politicians, activists, news media, and ordinary citizens often cite statistics that can present a distorted view of how many of these incidents occur. Those statistics are used to fuel ongoing debates about gun control, arming teachers, and school security.

With this tracker, 澳门跑狗论坛 aims to provide a clear accounting of K-12 school shootings. There is no single right way of calculating numbers like this, and the human toll in the immediate aftermath and long term is impossible to measure. We hope to provide reliable information to help inform discussions, debates, and solutions.

Methodology

Counting Incidents

This page refers to incidents that meet all the following criteria:

  • where a firearm was discharged,
  • where any individual, other than the suspect or perpetrator, has a bullet wound resulting from the incident,
  • that happen on K-12 school property or on a school bus, and
  • that occur while school is in session or during a school-sponsored event.

We do not track incidents in which the only shots fired were from an individual authorized to carry a gun on school property, such as a school resource officer, and who did so in their official capacity.

The numbers of incidents, injuries, and deaths reported in this tracker do not include suicides or self-inflicted injuries. While suicides and attempted suicides are serious issues of health and safety, many of the critical questions and debates that those incidents raise for educators and the broader public are often distinct from those generated by school shootings. Incidents may be added out of sequence as it can take time for verification.

Counting Injuries & Deaths

Injuries included in this tracker may be major or minor. While we only track incidents resulting in at least one bullet wound, total injuries are not necessarily the result of gunfire.

The total number of people killed or injured does not include the suspect or perpetrator.

Sources

In addition to our own reporting, we rely on local news outlets, school and district websites, news alerts via online search engines, the , David Riedman鈥檚 , and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security鈥檚 Naval Postgraduate School鈥檚 .

How to Cite This Page

School Shootings This Year: How Many and Where (2024, January 4). 澳门跑狗论坛. Retrieved Month Day, Year from /leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2024/01

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