26,000 students caught with firearms on U.S. campus in last decade: federal data

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 26,000 students were caught with a firearm at schools across the United States over the last 10 years, local television station ABC13 on Tuesday cited federal data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.

"Nationwide, it's about 6 students for every 100,000 enrolled," said the report.

The station also drew data from the Houston Independent School District in Texas, saying that there were 34 threats of planned school attacks last year, up from seven threats in the 2019-20 school year.

In the whole state, students have been disciplined for having a firearm at school in 557 incidents over the last three years.

There were also 15,184 fighting incidents statewide during the 2020-21 school year, and the number of fights during the pandemic are down from the 2018-19 school year, when there were 49,120 fights, added the report. Enditem.