How many school shootings in 2015?

The school shooting is the 142nd since 20 children and six educators died in the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, according to Everytown. Between January 2009 and July 2015, there were at least 134 mass shootings, according to an analysis compiled by Everytown. read more

Over five years of tracking, this data has shown us that gunfire on school grounds takes many forms and mirrors the problem of gun violence in America. Gunfire on school grounds disproportionately affects students of color– occurring most often at schools with a high proportion of minority students. read more