The drones are part of the growing business of providing security services to the nation’s thousands of K-12 schools amid the scourge of school shootings. “These are the first schools we’re deploying into now,” Marston said of the schools in the three states adopting the company’s drones. School shootings reached a peak of 352 incidents in 2023 before easing during the past two years, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. In the 1970s and 1980s, there were typically fewer than 30 school shootings per year, the group’s data shows. At least one other state is examining the use of drones in schools, with Louisiana recently passing a law that would fund a drone pilot program in four schools.