List of school shootings in the United States


This is a chronological list of school shootings in the United States, including shootings on school buses.
Any shooting that occurred at a K-12 public or private school, as well as at colleges and universities are included.
Excluded from this list are the following:
  1. Incidents that occurred during wars
  2. Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
  3. murder-suicides by rejected suitors or estranged spouses
  4. Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person.
Shootings by school staff, where the only victims are other employees, are covered at workplace killings.
This list does not include incidents where firearms were not involved, such as the Bath School disaster.

19th and 20th centuries

21st century

2000s

2010s

2020s