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Table 231.65. Total number of public school students who brought firearms to or possessed firearms at school and number of students who did this per 100,000 students enrolled, by state or jurisdiction: 2009-10 through 2016-17
State or jurisdiction Total number of students who brought firearms to or possessed firearms at school Number of students who did this per 100,000 students enrolled
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
United States 2,660   2,534   2,687   2,936   3,048   2,888   3,186 3,272 5.4   5.1   5.4   5.9   6.1   5.7   6.3 6.5
Alabama 52   39   12   91   97   67   100 70 6.9   5.2   1.6   12.2   13.0   9.0   13.4 9.4
Alaska 8   3   6   5   4   4   7 7 6.1   2.3   4.6   3.8   3.1   3.0   5.3 5.3
Arizona 33   33   43   39   34   36   29 79 3.1   3.1   4.0   3.6   3.1   3.2   2.6 7.0
Arkansas 97   114   105   115   113   123   112 142 20.2   23.6   21.7   23.7   23.1   25.1   22.8 28.8
California 375   238   157   323   316   321   380 346 6.0   3.8   2.5   5.1   5.0   5.1   6.0 5.5
                                                         
Colorado 47   65   67   42   45   22   27 30 5.6   7.7   7.8   4.9   5.1   2.5   3.0 3.3
Connecticut 35   40   42   45   24   36   41 40 6.2   7.1   7.6   8.2   4.4   6.6   7.6 7.5
Delaware 8   6   2   3   7   3   7 3 6.3   4.6   1.6   2.3   5.3   2.2   5.2 2.2
District of Columbia 7   6   49   0   72   19   13 11 10.1   8.4   66.3   0.0   92.1   23.5   15.5 12.1
Florida 104   113   105   96   120   134   146 131 3.9   4.3   3.9   3.6   4.4   4.9   5.2 4.7
                                                         
Georgia 169   180   141   179   134   122   185 204 10.1   10.7   8.4   10.5   7.8   7.0   10.5 11.6
Hawaii 8   2   1   1   0   0   34 25 4.4   1.1   0.5   0.5   0.0   0.0   18.7 13.8
Idaho 25   0   17   5   7   6   9 8 9.0   0.0   6.1   1.8   2.4   2.1   3.1 2.7
Illinois 22   7   7   5   5   184   177 189 1.0   0.3   0.3   0.2   0.2   9.0   8.7 9.3
Indiana 50   33   48   49   51   56   81 67 4.8   3.2   4.6   4.7   4.9   5.4   7.7 6.4
                                                         
Iowa 5   2   3   4   3   3   1 36 1.0   0.4   0.6   0.8   0.6   0.6   0.2 7.1
Kansas 89   40   30   48   40   35   35 51 18.8   8.3   6.2   9.8   8.1   7.0   7.1 10.3
Kentucky 22   19   23   36   45   50   52 58 3.2   2.8   3.4   5.3   6.6   7.3   7.6 8.5
Louisiana 198   188   162   194   214   143   178 170 28.7   27.0   23.0   27.3   30.1   19.9   24.8 23.7
Maine 2   2   4   2   0   1   0 3 1.1   1.1   2.1   1.1   0.0   0.5   0.0 1.7
                                                         
Maryland 9   12   12   11   7   8   9 14 1.1   1.4   1.4   1.3   0.8   0.9   1.0 1.6
Massachusetts 77   93   67   108   91   96   60 25 8.0   9.7   7.0   11.3   9.5   10.0   6.2 2.6
Michigan 48   110   110   114   70   50   58 44 2.9   6.9   7.0   7.3   4.5   3.3   3.8 2.9
Minnesota 25   29   14   21   32   26   30 28 3.0   3.5   1.7   2.5   3.8   3.0   3.5 3.2
Mississippi 71   32   32   39   49   18   24 38 14.4   6.5   6.5   7.9   9.9   3.7   4.9 7.9
                                                         
Missouri 12   9   4   8   5   9   8 9 1.3   1.0   0.4   0.9   0.5   1.0   0.9 1.0
Montana 23   17   32   15   16   13   16 9 16.2   12.0   22.5   10.5   11.1   9.0   11.0 6.1
Nebraska 8   14   11   17   16   17   10 12 2.7   4.7   3.7   5.6   5.2   5.4   3.2 3.8
Nevada 19   20   23   25   26   12   9 28 4.4   4.6   5.2   5.6   5.8   2.6   1.9 5.9
New Hampshire 4   10   19   17   22   13   9 8 2.0   5.1   9.9   9.0   11.8   7.0   4.9 4.4
                                                         
New Jersey 6   5   6   9   5   7   3 7 0.4   0.4   0.4   0.7   0.4   0.5   0.2 0.5
New Mexico 82   65   53   52   59   25   78 70 24.5   19.2   15.7   15.4   17.4   7.3   23.2 20.8
New York 73 1 103 1 253   180   238   247   184 137 2.6 1 3.8 1 9.4   6.6   8.7   9.0   6.8 5.0
North Carolina 40   72   67   75   98   84   115 100 2.7   4.8   4.4   4.9   6.4   5.4   7.4 6.5
North Dakota 5   15   14   8   15   4   11 4 5.3   15.6   14.3   7.9   14.4   3.8   10.1 3.6
                                                         
Ohio 103   91   75   71   102   88   83 81 5.8   5.2   4.3   4.1   5.9   5.1   4.8 4.7
Oklahoma 49   17   25   32   23   29   38 29 7.5   2.6   3.8   4.8   3.4   4.2   5.5 4.2
Oregon 43   43   59   47   37   42   30 38 7.4   7.5   10.4   8.0   6.2   7.0   4.9 6.6
Pennsylvania 52   24   22   34   24   46   18 24 2.9   1.3   1.2   1.9   1.4   2.6   1.0 1.4
Rhode Island 3   8   2   0   2   0   5 9 2.1   5.6   1.4   0.0   1.4   0.0   3.5 6.3
                                                         
South Carolina 35   10   38   74   108   76   91 102 4.8   1.4   5.2   10.1   14.5   10.0   11.9 13.2
South Dakota 12   6   10   13   5   1   10 9 9.7   4.8   7.8   10.0   3.8   0.8   7.4 6.6
Tennessee 115   42 2 75 2 64 2 57 2 57 2 121 127 11.8   4.3 2 7.5 2 6.4 2 5.7 2 5.7 2 12.1 12.7
Texas 108   397   397   397   95   104   107 146 2.2   8.0   7.9   7.8   1.8   2.0   2.0 2.7
Utah 35         101     6.1         16.1    
                                                         
Vermont 2   9   4   3   11   4   5 5 2.2   9.3   4.4   3.3   12.4   4.6   5.7 5.6
Virginia 59   57   52   50   45   54   53 65 4.7   4.6   4.1   4.0   3.5   4.2   4.1 5.1
Washington 134   33   127   100   91   97   42 125 12.9   3.2   12.1   9.5   8.6   9.0   3.9 11.3
West Virginia 9   7   12   1   211   220   281 229 3.2   2.5   4.2   0.4   75.1   78.5   101.3 83.6
Wisconsin 31   40   39   47   43   63   51 57 3.6   4.6   4.5   5.4   4.9   7.2   5.9 6.6
Wyoming 12   14   9   22   13   13   13 23 13.6   15.7   10.0   24.0   14.0   13.8   13.7 24.4
                                                         
Jurisdiction                                                        
Bureau of Indian
   Education
0             1 0.0             2.2
DoDEA                        
Other jurisdictions                                                        
American Samoa                        
Guam         0   0   0 0         0.0   0.0   0.0 0.0
Northern Marianas                        
Puerto Rico 7   24   16   10   4   0   2 12 1.4   5.1   3.5   2.3   0.9   0.0   0.5 3.3
U.S. Virgin Islands 0             0 0 0.0             0.0 0.0
—Not available.
‡Reporting standards not met (suppressed due to data quality concerns).
1 Data for New York City Public Schools were not reported.
2 Due to data quality concerns, totals exclude students reported under the "other" firearm type category.
NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, data represent the sum of student counts for all firearm type categories (handguns, rifles/shotguns, other firearms, and multiple types of firearms). DoDEA = Department of Defense Education Activity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, EDFacts file 086, Data Group 596, extracted August 20, 2018, 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 2016-17. (This table was prepared September 2018.)

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