Despite an overall increase in school shootings in recent years, a school shooting database funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is the latest target of President Donald Trump’s attempts to downsize the government. The research was part of the now-cancelled Terrorism and Targeted Violence Database, which tracked domestic terrorism and compiled the first-ever dataset that overlapped school-based targeted violence alongside other types of violence with terrorism events.

The database “was the only publicly available source of information that allowed homeland security professionals, law enforcement, school administrators, prevention practitioners, and policymakers to analyze the scope and nature of terrorism and targeted violence in the United States,” according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, College Park, which oversaw the project.

As a result, it was found that between 2023 and 2024, 400 out of more than 1,800 incidents targeted U.S. schools, leading to 81 successful attacks that occurred at educational institutions and took the lives of dozens of children.

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