Bloodshed since Sandy Hook: Uvalde school shooting among deadliest school attacks in past 10 years

A rampage at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school on Tuesday is the deadliest shooting at a U.S. elementary school since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre that horrified the nation.

Tuesday’s spree, which left 14 children and one teacher dead, notched another bleak marker: It is the deadliest school shooting in modern Texas history, occurring just four years after a gunman fatally shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School south of Houston. 

Before the Uvalde rampage, there were 26 school shootings resulting in injury or death in the U.S. in 2022, according to Education Week, which tracks shootings at schools in which there are any firearm-related injuries or deaths. Six people, five of them students, were killed in those shootings.

There have been 118 school shootings since the deadliest high school shooting in the country at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Education Week.

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Here is a breakdown of some of the most high-profile school shootings in the United States since Sandy Hook:

Sandy Hook Elementary School – Dec. 14, 2012 

In 2012, a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and opened fire, killing 20 first-graders and six school employees before taking his own life.

The shooting was the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, and at the time, was the second-deadliest mass shooting in the United States behind the spree shooting at Virginia Tech University in 2007. It has since been surpassed by shootings at the Pulse Orlando Nightclub shooting that left 49 people dead and the 2017 shooting at a Las Vegas concert that killed 61 people.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – Feb. 14, 2018 

A 19-year-old former student walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and opened fire, killing 17 people and wounding 17 others in 2018.