School Shootings by State

A Thursday shooting at an Iowa school that left a sixth-grader dead and at least five other victims wounded continued a troubling trend of school shootings in the U.S. and marked the fourth such incident in the U.S. already in 2024.

Though the devastating impact of school shootings – and of lives lost to any sort of violence – cannot be adequately captured by data and charts alone, they can help illustrate the tragic toll and geography of incidents that have become disturbingly prevalent in the U.S. in recent years.

In 2023,...