About 1 in 4 educators in the U.S. have experienced their school going on a gun-related lockdown in the last year, as school shootings reach record levels. Data from the Pew Research Center reveals that 2023 had the second-highest number of school shooting incidents since 2018. By early March 2024, at least 16 school shootings had already occurred. Despite these alarming statistics, only 7% of teachers surveyed by Pew said they were not worried about a shooting happening at their school.
A significant number of educators in the U.S. — about 1 in 4 — said they have experienced their school going on a gun-related lockdown in the last year, according to data published online by the Pew Research Center this week.
According to the CNN school shootings database — which Pew used in its published findings — by early March, 2024 had seen at least 16 school shootings. 2023 saw 82 shootings, and 79 were recorded for 2022. There were 73 in 2021, and during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 there were still 22 shootings.
Pew found that high school teachers were most likely to report having experienced a gun-related lockdown, while 22% of middle school teachers and 16% of elementary school teachers reported the same situation for their grade levels. The survey data found that around 4 in 10 teachers — just around 39% — reported believing their school had done a fair to poor job in terms of providing training and resources needed to handle a possible active shooter.
Educators U.S. School Lockdowns Gun-Related Incidents School Shootings Record Levels Statistics Pew Research Center
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