Points at Glance
- Federal Data Report says the school shootings hit the highest record compared to any other year.
- Forty-three out of 93 shootings resulted in public and private elementary and secondary school deaths.
- The statistical data will help our policymakers and other members identify and implement more safety measures.
According to the new federal report on school crime and safety, more school shootings occurred during the year 2020-21 compared to any other years since the start of data collection.
The report published recently by the National Center for Education Statistics reported 93 shootings with casualties at public and private elementary and secondary schools during the last academic year. Forty-three of the 93 shootings resulted in deaths.
According to the Federal data report, school shootings are defined as the incidents in which a gun is brandished or fired on school property”. During the Covid-19 pandemic, NCES determined that school shootings were also included in those that happened on school property during distinct instruction.
The broad methodology resulted in considerably more incidents than the ones that were reported in early estimates from Education Week’s school capturing tracker, which displays that 27 school shootings occurred during the school year 2021-22.
These data are very important to the efforts of our policymakers, school officials, and other community members to spot and implement preventive and responsive measures.
Statistical Report On The School Shooting
When compared to the new data collected a decade ago on the incidents of school crime, it shows that cyberbullying has increased significantly, with the proportion of students saying they had experienced it leaping from 8% in the 2009-10 school year to 16% in the 2019-20 school year.
Though several discipline issues like sexual harassment, student harassment, and the rate of crime have declined significantly in the school years in the last decade, the rate of forcible sex offenses on college and university campuses has increased dramatically.
The new report comes in the wake of the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two adults were killed in May. The deadliest school shooting since 2012, when 20 kindergartners and six teachers were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, prompted Congress last week to move the first gun safety and security laws in nearly three decades.
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