Dear Commons Community,
Education Week has done a quick analysis of this year’s school shootings in its current edition. Here is a summary.
There have been 23 school shootings this year that resulted in injuries or deaths. There have been 205 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 Sept. 4, a 14-year-old student shot and killed four people—two students and two teachers—and injured at least nine people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga. This is the first deadly school shooting of the 2024-25 academic year and is the deadliest school shooting since March 2023 when six people were killed at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn.
Injuries & Deaths This Year
23 School shootings with injuries or deaths
49 People killed or injured in a school shooting
11 People killed
5 Students or other children killed
6 School employees or other adults killed
38 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.
So sad!
Tony