São Paulo State Research Support Foundation shows that victims of violence in schools jumped from 3,771 to 13,117 in 10 years
A national data analysis carried out by (São Paulo State Research Support Foundation) and released on Monday (14.ab.2025) shows that school violence in Brazil increased more than triple from 2013 to 2023.
According to, 3,771 people were victims of interpersonal violence in Brazilian schools in 2013. The number reached the hallmark of 13,117 in 2023. The data concern students, teachers and other members of the school community.
Among the occurrences of 2023, in 2,200 cases there was self -probed violence (self -mutilation, self -poll, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and suicides), type of aggression that has increased by 95 times over 10 years.
For (Ministry of Education) there are 4 types of violence that reach schools:
- extreme aggressionswith premeditated and lethal attacks, such as the;
- interpersonal violenceincluding hostilities, aggression, discrimination and bullying;
- institutional violencewhen the school has practices or adopts excluding materials;
- Violence around the institutionsuch as drug trafficking, shootings and robberies.
FAPESP also draws attention to data released by, which indicate an increase in the proportion of students who reported episodes of bullying: there were 30.9% of students in 2009 and went to 40.5% in 2019.
According to the (Institute of Applied Economic Research), which conducted the study in partnership with the (Brazilian Forum of Public Security), the proportion of elementary students who stopped going to school for feeling insecure rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2019.
Despite an improvement in data collection by the (notification -grievance information system), used for the formulation of the Atlas, this isolated factor would not serve to explain, according to experts heard by FAPESP, such an increase in numbers.
Reasons for the increase
The reasons given to the increase of school violence would include political radicalization in Brazil, intensified from 2013, the relativization of hate discourse by public figures and increasing domestic violence against young people and children. Also according to Atlas, there were 9.5% students who, in 2009, said they were assaulted by a family member in the last 30 days, and in 2019 this proportion reached 16.1%.
Contributing factors are also the devaluation of the teaching career, the discontinuity of policies in the area of education, the Pandemia of COVID-19, as well as the precariousness in the infrastructure of schools.
Another indicated problem is the generalization of the concept of bullying, which ends up serving to qualify episodes that are actually of misogyny or racism, for example. This generalization makes it difficult to formulate adequate public policies to respond to the demands of schools.
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