US school shootings per year
The number of U.S. school shootings has risen dramatically in recent years. More than half of the shootings since the 1998-99 school year occurred in the five years starting with 2017-18.
A line chart shows the number of school shootings in the U.S. has risen dramatically, particularly since 2015. Almost half of the shootings since 1998 occurred in the last five school years of the count, 2017-2021.
