Incidents may be added out of sequence as it can take time for verification. 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. The numbers of incidents, injuries, and deaths reported in this tracker do not include suicides or self-inflicted injuries. 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. that occur while school is in session or during a school-sponsored event.that happen on K-12 school property or on a school bus, and.where any individual, other than the suspect or perpetrator, has a bullet wound resulting from the incident,.This page refers to incidents that meet all the following criteria: We hope to provide reliable information to help inform discussions, debates, and solutions. 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. With this tracker, Education Week aims to provide a clear accounting of K-12 school shootings. Those statistics are used to fuel ongoing debates about gun control, arming teachers, and school security. 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. Contact Informationįor media or research inquiries about this data, contact. We are no longer tracking that information. A previous version of this table included the age, sex, and status of the suspect(s).
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