Table 231.65.

Number of incidents of students bringing firearms to or possessing firearms at a public school and ratio of incidents per 100,000 students, by state: 2008-09 through 2012-13

State	Number of firearm incidents									Ratio of firearm incidents per 100,000 students
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11		2011-12		2012-13	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11		2011-12		2012-13
1	2		3		4		5		6	7		8		9		10		11
United States	1,608		1,749		1,685		1,333		1,556	3.3		3.5		3.4		2.7		3.1
Alabama	23		23		15		5		46	3.1		3.1		2.0		0.7		6.2
Alaska	8		7		3		5		5	6.1		5.3		2.3		3.8		3.8
Arizona	32		18		7		22		18	2.9		1.7		0.7		2.0		1.7
Arkansas	57	1	32		45		50		65	11.9	1	6.7		9.3		10.3		13.4
California	138		267		220		79		129	2.2		4.3		3.5		1.3		2.0
Colorado	21		23		19		17		23	2.6		2.8		2.3		2.0		2.7
Connecticut	30		29		12		21		19	5.3		5.1		2.1		3.8		3.4
Delaware	4		7		2		1		2	3.2		5.5		1.5		0.8		1.6
District of Columbia	—		2		2		2		0	—		2.9		2.8		2.7		0.0
Florida	60		66		63		51		62	2.3		2.5		2.4		1.9		2.3
Georgia	125		132		154		104		118	7.5		7.9		9.2		6.2		6.9
Hawaii	2		1		2		1		0	1.1		0.6		1.1		0.5		0.0
Idaho	22		12		—		10		5	8.0		4.3		—		3.6		1.8
Illinois	46	1	21		5		5		9	2.2	1	1.0		0.2		0.2		0.4
Indiana	39		42		28		26		27	3.7		4.0		2.7		2.5		2.6
Iowa	10		5		2		2		3	2.1		1.0		0.4		0.4		0.6
Kansas	21		32		20		9		28	4.5		6.7		4.1		1.9		5.7
Kentucky	20		12		15		23		20	3.0		1.8		2.2		3.4		2.9
Louisiana	60		50		49		43		66	8.8		7.2		7.0		6.1		9.3
Maine	2		2		2		4		2	1.0		1.1		1.1		2.1		1.1
Maryland	16		8		8		10		11	1.9		0.9		0.9		1.2		1.3
Massachusetts	13		11		12		7		10	1.4		1.1		1.3		0.7		1.0
Michigan	35		37		80		60		70	2.1		2.2		5.0		3.8		4.5
Minnesota	19		21		23		10		19	2.3		2.5		2.7		1.2		2.2
Mississippi	21		42		32		32		38	4.3		8.5		6.5		6.5		7.7
Missouri	119		104		120		81		110	13.0		11.3		13.1		8.8		12.0
Montana	18		14		11		9		8	12.7		9.9		7.8		6.3		5.6
Nebraska	7		8		13		10		16	2.4		2.7		4.4		3.3		5.3
Nevada	—		18		14		14		8	—		4.2		3.2		3.2		1.8
New Hampshire	3		2		5		6		4	1.5		1.0		2.6		3.1		2.1
New Jersey	4		5		5		6		5	0.3		0.4		0.4		0.4		0.4
New Mexico	24		18		25		18		13	7.3		5.4		7.4		5.3		3.8
New York	36	2	17	2	18	2	46		28	1.3	2	0.6	2	0.7	2	1.7		1.0
North Carolina	23		23		9		9		11	1.5		1.6		0.6		0.6		0.7
North Dakota	1		2		11		2		5	1.1		2.1		11.4		2.0		4.9
Ohio	88		103		91		76		71	4.8		5.8		5.2		4.4		4.1
Oklahoma	47		37		22		27		39	7.3		5.7		3.3		4.1		5.8
Oregon	18		14		17		19		16	3.1		2.4		3.0		3.3		2.7
Pennsylvania	25		27		24		23		34	1.4		1.5		1.3		1.3		1.9
Rhode Island	2		3		7		1		0	1.4		2.1		4.9		0.7		0.0
South Carolina	31		32		8		26		49	4.3		4.4		1.1		3.6		6.7
South Dakota	9		8		2		10		9	7.1		6.5		1.6		7.8		6.9
Tennessee	85		79		43		82		64	8.7		8.1		4.4		8.2		6.4
Texas	95		103		93		85		100	2.0		2.1		1.9		1.7		2.0
Utah	19		5		76		99	1	49	3.4		0.9		13.0		16.5	1	8.0
Vermont	4		1		3		1		2	4.3		1.1		3.1		1.1		2.2
Virginia	48		34		30		32		31	3.9		2.7		2.4		2.5		2.4
Washington	44		162		173		26		33	4.2		15.6		16.6		2.5		3.1
West Virginia	7		4		3		14		1	2.5		1.4		1.1		4.9		0.4
Wisconsin	16		19		33		8		37	1.8		2.2		3.8		0.9		4.2
Wyoming	11		5		9		4		18	12.6		5.7		10.1		4.4		19.7

—Not available.

1 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.

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

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 December 9, 2014, from the EDFacts Data Warehouse (internal U.S. Department of Education source); Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 2008-09 through 2012-13. (This table was prepared December 2014.)