Texas Massacre Is the Second-Deadliest School Shooting on Record
Deadliest active shooter attacks at schools since 1970
Includes only grades K-12.
2014
Marysville, Wash.
4 dead
2005
Red Lake, Minn.
7 dead
2021
Oxford, Mich.
4 dead
2012
Newtown, Conn.
26 dead
1992
Olivehurst, Calif.
4 dead
2006
Nickel Mines, Pa.
5 dead
1999
Littleton, Colo.
13 dead
1989
Stockton, Calif.
5 dead
1998
Jonesboro, Ark.
5 dead
2018
Santa Fe, Texas
10 dead
2022
Uvalde, Texas
21 dead
2018
Parkland, Fla.
17 dead
2014
Marysville, Wash.
4 dead
2005
Red Lake, Minn.
7 dead
2021
Oxford, Mich.
4 dead
2012
Newtown, Conn.
26 dead
1992
Olivehurst, Calif.
4 dead
2006
Nickel Mines, Pa.
5 dead
1999
Littleton, Colo.
13 dead
1989
Stockton, Calif.
5 dead
1998
Jonesboro, Ark.
5 dead
2018
Santa Fe, Texas
10 dead
2022
Uvalde, Texas
21 dead
2018
Parkland, Fla.
17 dead
2005
Red Lake, Minn.
7 dead
2012
Newtown, Conn.
26 dead
1999
Littleton, Colo.
13 dead
2022
Uvalde, Texas
21 dead
2018
Santa Fe, Texas
10 dead
2018
Parkland, Fla.
17 dead
The death toll continues to mount in the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, but already it is the second-deadliest shooting at an elementary, middle or high school on record in the United States.
People killed by active shooters at schools each year since 1970
30 killed
Sandy Hook
26 killed
Parkland
17 killed
25
Uvalde
21 killed
20
Columbine
13 killed
15
Santa Fe
10 killed
10
5
’75
’80
’85
’90
’95
’00
’05
’10
’15
’20
Parkland
17 killed
30 killed
Sandy Hook
26 killed
25
Uvalde
21 killed
20
Columbine
13 killed
15
Santa Fe
10 killed
10
5
’80
’90
’00
’10
’20
At least 19 students and two adults have been confirmed dead in the attack, according to the police, who said they subsequently shot and killed the gunman, whom they identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, a student at a nearby high school.
The Uvalde shooting comes nearly a decade after a gunman killed 20 small children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., before taking his own life. As the deaths mounted on Tuesday, the Uvalde shooting outstripped the devastating 2018 massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed.
Number of active shooter attacks since 1970
12 school shootings
10
8
6
4
2
0
’75
’80
’85
’90
’95
’00
’05
’10
’15
’20
12 school shootings
10
8
6
4
2
’80
’90
’00
’10
’20
The Uvalde attack, the second mass shooting at a school this year, is at least the 188th since 1970, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the K-12 School Shooting Database, which is compiled by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
The database includes hundreds of attacks at elementary, middle and high schools in which assailants opened fire on campus. Not including the assailants, at least 200 people have been killed in these school shootings so far.