List of school massacres by death toll


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This is a list of school massacres by death toll.

The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties).

The W column gives a basic description of the weapons used:
 * F – Firearms and other ranged weapons. This primarily includes rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots.
 * M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, rocks, or bare hands.
 * O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks.
 * A – indicates that fire was the only other weapon used
 * V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used
 * E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used

Rampage killers
This is a list of mass/spree killers who attacked schools. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period. A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others.

The victims must be largely the relatives of the perpetrator to be considered a familicide.

This list does not include serial killers, members of democidal governments, or major political figures who orchestrated such actions.

Abbreviations and footnotes
The W-column gives a basic description of the weapons used in the murders
 * F – Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshot
 * M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, rocks, or bare hands
 * O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks
 * A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used
 * V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used
 * E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used
 * P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas)