Table 231.65.

Number of incidents of students bringing firearms to or possessing firearms at a public school and rate of incidents per 100,000 students, by state: 2009-10 through 2015-16

State	Number of firearm incidents										Rate of firearm incidents per 100,000 students
	2009-10		2010-11		2011-12		2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2009-10		2010-11		2011-12		2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
1	2		3		4		5	6	7	8	9		10		11		12	13	14	15
United States	1,749		1,685		1,333		1,556	1,501	1,463	1,576	3.5		3.4		2.7		3.1	3.0	2.9	3.1
Alabama	23		15		5		46	29	34	46	3.1		2.0		0.7		6.2	3.9	4.6	6.2
Alaska	7		3		5		5	4	2	5	5.3		2.3		3.8		3.8	3.1	1.5	3.8
Arizona	18		7		22		18	17	25	16	1.7		0.7		2.0		1.7	1.5	2.2	1.4
Arkansas	32		45		50		65	51	69	57	6.7		9.3		10.3		13.4	10.4	14.1	11.6
California	267		220		79		129	92	113	118	4.3		3.5		1.3		2.0	1.5	1.8	1.9
Colorado	23		19		17		23	21	20	16	2.8		2.3		2.0		2.7	2.4	2.2	1.8
Connecticut	29		12		21		19	7	15	15	5.1		2.1		3.8		3.4	1.3	2.8	2.8
Delaware	7		2		1		2	5	2	6	5.5		1.5		0.8		1.6	3.8	1.5	4.4
District of Columbia	2		2		2		0	2	7	7	2.9		2.8		2.7		0.0	2.6	8.6	8.3
Florida	66		63		51		62	71	82	76	2.5		2.4		1.9		2.3	2.6	3.0	2.7
Georgia	132		154		104		118	83	79	107	7.9		9.2		6.2		6.9	4.8	4.5	6.1
Hawaii	1		2		1		0	0	0	0	0.6		1.1		0.5		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Idaho	12		—		10		5	4	2	6	4.3		—		3.6		1.8	1.3	0.7	2.1
Illinois	21		5		5		9	4	7	68	1.0		0.2		0.2		0.4	0.2	0.3	3.3
Indiana	42		28		26		27	25	26	51	4.0		2.7		2.5		2.6	2.4	2.5	4.9
Iowa	5		2		2		3	3	3	1	1.0		0.4		0.4		0.6	0.6	0.6	0.2
Kansas	32		20		9		28	19	16	16	6.7		4.1		1.9		5.7	3.8	3.2	3.2
Kentucky	12		15		23		20	43	32	35	1.8		2.2		3.4		2.9	6.3	4.6	5.1
Louisiana	50		49		43		66	80	53	82	7.2		7.0		6.1		9.3	11.2	7.4	11.4
Maine	2		2		4		2	0	1	0	1.1		1.1		2.1		1.1	0.0	0.5	0.0
Maryland	8		8		10		11	7	6	8	0.9		0.9		1.2		1.3	0.8	0.7	0.9
Massachusetts	11		12		7		10	19	11	12	1.1		1.3		0.7		1.0	2.0	1.2	1.2
Michigan	37		80		60		70	41	24	34	2.2		5.0		3.8		4.5	2.6	1.6	2.2
Minnesota	21		23		10		19	22	24	26	2.5		2.7		1.2		2.2	2.6	2.8	3.0
Mississippi	42		32		32		38	49	18	24	8.5		6.5		6.5		7.7	9.9	3.7	4.9
Missouri	104		120		81		110	88	95	112	11.3		13.1		8.8		12.0	9.6	10.4	12.2
Montana	14		11		9		8	8	11	7	9.9		7.8		6.3		5.6	5.6	7.6	4.8
Nebraska	8		13		10		16	14	15	9	2.7		4.4		3.3		5.3	4.6	4.8	2.8
Nevada	18		14		14		8	29	6	6	4.2		3.2		3.2		1.8	6.4	1.3	1.3
New Hampshire	2		5		6		4	9	10	1	1.0		2.6		3.1		2.1	4.8	5.4	0.5
New Jersey	5		5		6		5	5	3	2	0.4		0.4		0.4		0.4	0.4	0.2	0.1
New Mexico	18		25		18		13	15	9	16	5.4		7.4		5.3		3.8	4.4	2.6	4.8
New York	17	1	18	1	46		28	45	47	42	0.6	1	0.7	1	1.7		1.0	1.6	1.7	1.5
North Carolina	23		9		9		11	19	23	38	1.6		0.6		0.6		0.7	1.2	1.5	2.5
North Dakota	2		11		2		5	6	4	1	2.1		11.4		2.0		4.9	5.8	3.8	0.9
Ohio	103		91		76		71	102	89	83	5.8		5.2		4.4		4.1	5.9	5.2	4.8
Oklahoma	37		22		27		39	21	26	35	5.7		3.3		4.1		5.8	3.1	3.8	5.1
Oregon	14		17		19		16	15	17	9	2.4		3.0		3.3		2.7	2.5	2.8	1.5
Pennsylvania	27		24		23		34	23	49	24	1.5		1.3		1.3		1.9	1.3	2.8	1.4
Rhode Island	3		7		1		0	2	0	4	2.1		4.9		0.7		0.0	1.4	0.0	2.8
South Carolina	32		8		26		49	51	51	51	4.4		1.1		3.6		6.7	6.8	6.7	6.7
South Dakota	8		2		10		9	4	1	10	6.5		1.6		7.8		6.9	3.1	0.8	7.4
Tennessee	79		43		82		64	57	64	75	8.1		4.4		8.2		6.4	5.7	6.4	7.5
Texas	103		93		85		100	103	90	98	2.1		1.9		1.7		2.0	2.0	1.7	1.8
Utah	5		76		99	2	49	45	55	16	0.9		13.0		16.5	2	8.0	7.2	8.7	2.5
Vermont	1		3		1		2	9	2	5	1.1		3.1		1.1		2.2	10.1	2.3	5.7
Virginia	34		30		32		31	22	34	25	2.7		2.4		2.5		2.4	1.7	2.7	1.9
Washington	162		173		26		33	46	34	13	15.6		16.6		2.5		3.1	4.3	3.2	1.2
West Virginia	4		3		14		1	16	16	24	1.4		1.1		4.9		0.4	5.7	5.7	8.7
Wisconsin	19		33		8		37	40	32	29	2.2		3.8		0.9		4.2	4.6	3.7	3.3
Wyoming	5		9		4		18	9	9	9	5.7		10.1		4.4		19.7	9.7	9.6	9.5

—Not available.

1 Data for New York City Public Schools were not reported.

2 The state reported a total state-level firearm incident count that was less than the sum of its reported district-level counts. The sum of the district-level firearm incident counts is displayed instead of the reported state-level count.

NOTE: Separate counts were collected for incidents involving handguns, rifles/shotguns, other firearms, and multiple types of firearms. The counts reported here exclude the “other firearms” category.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, EDFacts file 094, Data Group 601, extracted August 8, 2017, from the EDFacts Data Warehouse (internal U.S. Department of Education source); and Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 2009-10 through 2015-16. (This table was prepared September 2017.)