School Shootings This Year: How Many and Where
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School shootings—terrifying to students, educators, parents, and communities—always reignite polarizing debates about gun rights and school safety. To bring context to these debates, Education Week journalists began tracking shootings on K-12 school property that resulted in firearm-related injuries or deaths.
In 2023, we continue this heartbreaking, but important work. More information about this tracker and our methodology is below.
There have been 13 school shootings this year that resulted in injuries or deaths. There have been 157 such shootings since 2018. There were 51 school shootings with injuries or deaths last year, the most in a single year since Education Week began tracking such incidents in 2018. There were 35 in 2021, 10 in 2020, and 24 each in 2019 and 2018.
On March 27, three students and three adults were shot and killed at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn. A police officer suffered a hand injury from cut glass. The suspect died after being shot by police, authorities said. This was the deadliest school shooting at a U.S. K-12 school since May 2022, when an 18-year-old former student shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school.
