High School Football Injury Statistics

Researchers estimate that 455,449 high school football injuries occurred in the 2018-2019 school year. Head and face concussions are the most common type of high school football injury. Nearly one-fourth of all high school football injuries were sustained while the student was being tackled.

traumatic (direct) fatalities in 2021 for high school (grades 9-12) was 0.36 per 100,000 participants (95% confidence interval: 0.01 to 0.72 (Table III). Last year in 2020 there were no traumatic injury fatalities directly related to football

High School Football Injury Statistics - To date, from 2005/06 through 2021/22, participating schools have reported 116,594 injuries during 59,295,404 athletic exposures (AEs) for an overall injury rate of 1.97 injuries per 1,000 AEs for all 24 sports included during the 17-year study period.