Parental concerns about children’s safety in school have risen for the fourth year, with four in ten reporting heightened anxieties, according to a new Gallup survey. 

The survey conducted from Aug. 1 to Aug. 20, before the shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic School this week that killed two children and injured 17 others, found that 41% of U.S. parents of K-12 students feared their oldest child’s safety at school. 

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