STATISTICS

Data determined and reported from the Washington Post's School-Shootings Database*:

Since the Columbine tragedy in 1999, there have been 386 school shootings in the U.S. as of June 11, 2023.

At least 201 children, educators, and others have been killed and another 430 injured.

More than 352,000 students have experienced gun violence when at school since Columbine.

There were 42 school shootings at K-12 schools in 2021.

In review of 180+ incidents committed by juveniles where the source of the gun could be tracked, 86% of weapons came from the homes of friends, relatives, or parents.

Through 2017, the country averaged about 11 school shootings a year, never more than 16 in a single year.

The median age of a school shooter is 16.

Children are responsible for more than half of the country's school shootings.

There were more school shootings in 2022 than in any year since 1999 - 46 in total.

While almost all mass assaults were committed by White gunmen affecting a majority of White students, children of color are more likely to experience campus gun violence: more than twice as much for Hispanic students and over three times more for Black students, though the shootings tend to be targeted at a person(s) and for a particular grievance.

* From Washington Post article titled, "More than 352,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine," by John Woodrow Cox, Steven Rich, Linda Chong, Lucas Trevor, John Muyskens, and Monica Ulmanu; Updated June 11, 2023.