School-associated violent deaths, school shootings, and school crisis incidents have been identified through print and electronic news sources, professional contacts, and other nationwide sources, by Kenneth S. Trump, President, National School Safety and Security Services, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio). This is not presented as an exhaustive list or as a scientific study. Additional incidents may be added pending review of additional items on file and new information received during the course of the school year.
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For purposes of this monitoring report, school-associated violent deaths are homicides, suicides, or other violent, non-accidental deaths in the United States in which a fatal injury occurs:
1) inside a school, on school property, on or immediately around (and associated with) a school bus, or in the immediate area (and associated with) a K-12 elementary or secondary public, private, or parochial school;
2)on the way to or from a school for a school session;
3)while attending, or on the way to or from, a school-sponsored event;
4) as a clear result of school-related incidents/conflicts, functions, activities, regardless of whether on or off actual school property;
School-Associated Violent Death Summary Data
|
School Year |
Total Deaths |
|
2009-2010 |
11 |
|
2008-2009 |
13 |
|
2007-2008 |
16 |
|
2006-2007 |
32 |
|
2005-2006 |
27 |
|
2004-2005 |
39 |
|
2003-2004 |
49 |
|
2002-2003 |
16 |
|
2001-2002 |
17 |
|
2000-2001 |
31 |
|
1999-2000 |
33 |
|
Total: |
284 |
School-Associated Violent Deaths:
Method of Death Breakdown
| 09- 10 |
08- 09 |
07- 08 |
06- 07 |
05- 06 |
04- 05 |
03- 04 |
02- 03 |
01- 02 |
00- 01 |
99- 00 |
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| Method | Total | |||||||||||
| Shooting | 130 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 24 | 23 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 10 |
| Suicide | 49 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 8 |
| Murder-Suicide | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| Fighting | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Stabbing | 41 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Other | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
For a detailed incident breakdown during each school year see:
At National School Safety and Security Services, we believe that school safety and crisis preparedness must be in the minds at all times, including when there is not a high-profile shooting in the headlines. We also believe that while the majority of schools in our nation are not overwhelmed with crime and violence, the violence which does occur more commonly centers around aggressive violent behavior which does NOT involve shootings such as those we have seen in the news in recent years. Still, schools and communities must be prepared for even the most remote chance of such a tragedy.
We have been quite surprised to note that upon sharing the incidents of school-associated violent deaths that we have identified the majority of people we meet with can only recall hearing of only one or two of these at the most. We do NOT want to be alarmist, but we DO want members of our school communities to be aware and prepared, not scared. To do so, we must all be aware that incidents like those which occur across the nation throughout the school year, not just when we hear of selected incidents receiving higher-profile attention in the media or others ources.