A Philippine ninth grader killed one classmate and wounded two others in a body-cam Facebook livestream school attack on August 18, the country's second fatal school shooting in two months, as US schools reopen.

Madera Unified placed special education staff member Kenisha Daily on administrative leave and obtained a temporary restraining order after she posted videos of herself loading firearms and calling for formation of an armed Black militia targeting white people, prompting a formal Madera Police Department investigation and enhanced security at Lincoln Elementary School.

An Arkansas teenager was arrested August 12 after investigators found a written plan to conduct a mass shooting at his school at the start of the new academic year, one of several pre-school-year plots disrupted by law enforcement nationwide this summer.

Seattle Police interrupted a potential mass shooting after recovering a buried shotgun and detaining a UW Tacoma student served with an ERPO following mass-shooter content on Discord referencing Elliot Rodger.

A Will County family member stopped a juvenile who was armed with a Glock, loaded magazines, knives, and an accelerant and had stated he was on his way to attack Grand Prairie Elementary School in Plainfield Township, Illinois.

A known swatting group posted a Kansas specific warning hours before a coordinated wave of hoax school bomb threats, strongly suggesting prior knowledge or responsibility despite the absence of an explicit claim.