Despite some high-profile school shooting cases, a new report out Thursday found that killing rate in U.S. schools is actually much lower than what was a decade ago.
The report, compiled by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), showed that the school-related homicide rate has dropped by more than half from 1992 to 2006, from 7 per million to3 per million.
The number of killings include murders of students at elementary, middle or high schools, on school-sponsored trips, or while students were on their way to or from school.
While homicide is the second-leading cause of death in American teenagers aged 5 to 18, but slightly fewer than 1 percent of these were school killings, said the report.
Researchers concluded that the finding shows U.S. schools are safe. However, the United States remains home to most high-profile school shootings in the world.
In April 1999, two boys killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, before killing themselves.
In March 2005, a boy killed five students, a teacher and a security guard at a school at Minnesota and also killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion.
Source: Xinhua
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