Accessed 26 May 2022. Number of K-12 school shootings in the United States from 1970 to June 2022, by active shooter status [Graph]. The US has had 213 mass shootings overall in 2022 so far, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which records mass shootings with four or more victims. The best of the best: the portal for top lists & rankings: Strategy and business building for the data-driven economy: Show sources information Get the latest education news delivered to your inbox daily. Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Find hundreds of jobs for principals, assistant principals, and other school leadership roles. 2022 was already the worst year on record. In this course shooting incident, The Gunman killed 2 people, including a young girl (student) and a female teacher. A fight over a social media post erupted in the school parking lot following a high school basketball game. Those calls got louder after the Uvalde mass shooting on May 24 that killed 19 children and two adults, becoming the deadliest K-12 mass school shooting after the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre that left 26 children and educators dead almost a decade earlier. Hyon-Young Kim is senior digital news specialist for Education Week. A visitor places bracelets on crosses at a memorial as he and others pay their respects to the victims killed in last week's Robb Elementary School shooting, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. A shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that has killed 19 children and two adults marks the 27th school shooting this year. After getting a tip that a student had a gun on campus, the assistant principal and school resource officer devised a plan to get the student out of his classroom and into an office without raising suspicion. 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. After a lunch time dispute with players on the football team, 5 students waited in a car outside the stadium for a scrimmage to end. A previous version of this table included the age, sex, and status of the suspect(s). Editorial guidelines (Publication does not equal endorsement): http://www.goo.gl/lPfoNG, Creator of K-12 School Shooting Database (k12ssdb.org) and Ph.D. student at the University of Central Florida https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-riedman, sniper firing 239 rounds at the campus during dismissal, https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-riedman. Gamio, Lazaro, and Shawn Hubler. This year had a record number of incidents since Education Week began tracking school. Education Week also includes only incidents that happen on a K-12 school property or on a school bus and that occur when school is in session or during a school-sponsored event. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r