Saturday marked 12 years since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, and on Monday, a shooting at a school in Wisconsin became at least the 82nd school shooting this year.

Here’s a look at some facts and statistics about school shootings in the United States and how often they occur.

5 facts about school shootings in the US

2024 has had the same number of school shootings as 2023

According to CNNthere were at least 82 school shootings in 2023. This includes all schools from kindergarten to university.

As of Dec. 10, there had been 81 school shootings this year, with Monday’s shooting in Wisconsin bringing that number to at least 82, per CNN.

Last year, there were eight school shootings that occurred in the last 25 days of the year.

2022 was the deadliest year for school shootings

Although there were fewer school shootings in 2022 than in 2023 and 2024, the most deaths in school shootings occurred in 2022, per CNN.

In 2022, 46 people were killed in shootings on school property.

According to CNN19 students and two teachers were killed in the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Guns are the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in the United States

According to Sandy Hook Promisegunshot deaths are five times more common than drowning.

Sandy Hook Promise is “a national nonprofit organization founded and led by several family members whose loved ones were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.”

One in 10 people who die from guns is under the age of 19. There, 12 children die from gun violence in the US every day, and another 32 are injured, per Sandy Hook Promise.

While Texas has had the most school shootings, Washington, DC, has the most relative to its population

According to CNNsince 2008 Texas has had 61 school shootings, the most of all 50 states. The District of Columbia has the highest rate of school shootings relative to its population, with at least six shootings since 2008, per CNN.

That’s about one for every 100,000 people.

The second highest rate per population was Louisiana, with at least 33 shootings, which is 0.71 shootings per 100,000 people.

Louisiana is followed by Maryland. Its six shootings since 2008 equate to 0.61 school shootings per 100,000 people, according to CNN.

There are 5 states that have not had a school shooting since 2008

According to CNN, the five states that haven’t had a school shooting since 2008 are Montana, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island.