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Schools focus on "hardening" buildings against mass shootings. Data show they're missing where most gun violence is happening.

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Garfield High School in Seattle has been the scene of five shootings since 2021 .

It's the most at any single U.S. school in the last 20 years , CBS News data analysis shows.

"Smaller" shootings are more frequent than mass shootings, like the in Georgia on Sept. 4 , in which were killed.

CBS News found 84% of deadly shootings happened outside school walls since 2018 .

Student develops his own push alert app to alert students, teachers and parents about emergencies on campus.

Seattle Public Schools administration is focusing on what it can do to reduce the risk at its schools.

Superintendent Dr. Brent Jones : "Our schools are safer now internally than they are externally" Jackson Hatch hopes to share the app with schools nationwide.

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