{
  "id": 7833841,
  "title": "Fewer Philly students are getting shot, but risks are higher for those at cyber charters, alternative schools",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/fewer-philly-students-are-getting-shot-but-risks-are-higher-for-those",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-16T17:20:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Chalkbeat",
    "slug": "chalkbeat",
    "url": "https://www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2026/09/16/student-shootings-down-cyber-charters-show-higher-risk/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Philadelphia's School District of Philadelphia has seen a decline in the number of shooting victims among school-aged youth, with 34% of the 230 victims in the 2025-2026 school year being active district students, 55% former students, and the remainder never enrolled. However, the risk of violence is higher for students attending cyber charters and alternative schools. Cyber charter students have a shooting rate of .81 per 1,000, more than double that of traditional and non-cyber charter students, which is about .30 per 1,000. Alternative school students have a rate of 3.79 per 1,000, more than 10 times the rate of traditional and cyber students. The highest risk time for shootings is on Monday afternoons, between 3 to 5 p.m. The majority of shootings occur in a 1-mile radius of five specific ZIP codes in North Philadelphia.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}