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| Table 228.10. | School-associated violent deaths of all persons, homicides and suicides of youth ages 5-18 at school, and total homicides and suicides of youth ages 5-18, by type of violent death: 1992-93 through 2015-16 |
| Year | School-associated violent deaths1 of all persons (includes students, staff, and other nonstudents) |
Homicides of youth ages 5-18 | Suicides of youth ages 5-18 | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Homicides | Suicides | Legal inter- ventions |
Unintentional firearm- related deaths |
Undetermined violent deaths2 |
Homicides at school3 |
Total homicides | Suicides at school3 |
Total suicides4 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||||||
| 1992-93 | 57 | 47 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 3,003 | 6 | 1,657 | ||||||||
| 1993-94 | 48 | 38 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 3,253 | 7 | 1,779 | ||||||||
| 1994-95 | 48 | 39 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 3,001 | 7 | 1,704 | ||||||||
| 1995-96 | 53 | 46 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 2,791 | 6 | 1,691 | ||||||||
| 1996-97 | 48 | 45 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 2,430 | 1 | 1,584 | ||||||||
| 1997-98 | 57 | 47 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 2,231 | 6 | 1,681 | ||||||||
| 1998-99 | 47 | 38 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 1,923 | 4 | 1,480 | ||||||||
| 1999-2000 | 37 | 5 | 26 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 1,694 | 8 | 5 | 1,420 |
| 2000-01 | 34 | 5 | 26 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 1,636 | 6 | 5 | 1,451 |
| 2001-02 | 36 | 5 | 27 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 1,593 | 5 | 5 | 1,343 |
| 2002-03 | 36 | 5 | 25 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 1,658 | 10 | 5 | 1,264 |
| 2003-04 | 45 | 5 | 37 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 5 | 1,620 | 5 | 5 | 1,411 |
| 2004-05 | 52 | 5 | 40 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 1,720 | 8 | 5 | 1,484 |
| 2005-06 | 44 | 5 | 37 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 1,859 | 3 | 5 | 1,311 |
| 2006-07 | 63 | 5 | 48 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 32 | 5 | 1,906 | 9 | 5 | 1,243 |
| 2007-08 | 48 | 5 | 39 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 1,858 | 5 | 5 | 1,256 |
| 2008-09 | 44 | 5 | 29 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 1,720 | 7 | 5 | 1,425 |
| 2009-10 | 35 | 5 | 27 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 5 | 1,551 | 2 | 5 | 1,441 |
| 2010-11 | 32 | 5 | 26 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 1,436 | 3 | 5 | 1,559 |
| 2011-12 | 45 | 5 | 26 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 1,360 | 5 | 5 | 1,541 |
| 2012-13 | 53 | 5 | 41 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 31 | 5 | 1,310 | 6 | 5 | 1,608 |
| 2013-14 | 48 | 5 | 26 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 1,160 | 8 | 5 | 1,638 |
| 2014-15 | 47 | 5 | 28 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 1,273 | 9 | 5 | 1,882 |
| 2015-16 | 38 | 5 | 30 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 1,478 | 3 | 5 | 1,941 |
| 1 A school-associated violent death is defined as "a homicide, suicide, or legal intervention (involving a law enforcement officer), in which the fatal injury occurred on the campus of a functioning elementary or secondary school in the United States," while the victim was on the way to or from regular sessions at school, or while the victim was attending or traveling to or from an official school-sponsored event. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 Violent deaths for which the manner was undetermined; that is, the information pointing to one manner of death was no more compelling than the information pointing to one or more other competing manners of death when all available information was considered. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 "At school" includes on the property of a functioning elementary or secondary school, on the way to or from regular sessions at school, and while attending or traveling to or from a school-sponsored event. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 Excludes self-inflicted deaths among 5- to 9-year-olds. The number of self-inflicted deaths among 5- to 9-year-olds was generally less than 7 per year during the period covered by this table. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Data from 1999-2000 onward are subject to change until law enforcement reports have been obtained and interviews with school and law enforcement officials have been completed. The details learned during the interviews can occasionally change the classification of a case. | ||||||||||||||||||
| NOTE: All data are reported for the school year, defined as July 1 through June 30. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1992-2016 School-Associated Violent Death Surveillance System (SAVD-SS) (partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Healthy Students), previously unpublished tabulation; and CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, 1992-2016 National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), previously unpublished tabulation prepared by CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. (This table was prepared October 2018.) |