Production and presentation by John Muyskens, Monica Ulmanu, Leslie Shapiro and Reuben Fischer-Baum. To provide information about school shootings since Columbine that fit The Post’s definition, send us an email at and reporting by John Woodrow Cox, Steven Rich, Allyson Chiu, Hannah Thacker, Linda Chong and Alex Horton. School shootings are a form of gun violence that involves an attack via firearms and takes place at an educational institution, such as a primary school. Reporters subtracted 50 percent from a school’s enrollment if the act of gun violence occurred just before or after the school day.
Then The Post deducted 7 percent from the enrollment total because that is, on average, how many students miss school each day, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The analysis used attendance figures from the year of the shooting for the vast majority of the schools. Education Department, including the Common Core of Data and the Private School Universe Survey. To calculate how many children were exposed to gunfire in each school shooting, The Post relied on enrollment figures and demographic information from the U.S. Because the federal government does not track school shootings, it’s possible that the database does not contain every incident that would qualify. Gunfire at colleges and universities, which affects young adults rather than kids, also was not counted.Īfter finding more than 200 incidents of gun violence that met The Post’s criteria, reporters organized them in a database for analysis. Shootings at after-hours events, accidental discharges that caused no injuries to anyone other than the person handling the gun and suicides that occurred privately or posed no threat to other children were excluded. Using Nexis, news articles, open-source databases, law enforcement reports, information from school websites, and calls to schools and police departments, The Post reviewed more than 1,000 alleged incidents but counted only those that happened on campuses immediately before, during or just after classes. To do that, reporters attempted to identify every act of gunfire at a primary or secondary school during school hours since the Columbine High massacre on April 20, 1999. The Washington Post spent a year determining how many children have been affected by school shootings, beyond just those killed or injured.
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