Twelve of the dead were students and teachers at the Albertville secondary school in Winnenden, north of Stuttgart, police say.
The gunman, a 17-year-old former pupil, is also dead, but it is not clear whether he was shot or killed himself.
The teenager, who entered the school wearing black combat gear, died in a shoot-out 40km (25 miles) away.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to make a statement on the shooting at 1600 (1500 GMT), a government spokesman said.
'Supermarket shoot-out'
The governor of Baden-Wuerttemburg, Guenther Oettinger said police killed the suspect, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Regional radio station SWR said the suspect was killed during a shoot-out with police in a town called Wendlingen, about 40km (25 miles) away from the school.
It said that he fled there in a car after the school shooting and barricaded himself in a supermarket.
There he shot dead two passers-by and two police officers were injured.
In total, nine students, three teachers and three passers-by are thought to be among the dead.
The chief reporter of the Stuttgart Journal newspaper, Kevin Latzel, told the BBC that there was a lot of confusion at the school.
"It's very horrible... the parents are crying, the pupils are crying and a lot of police is there and nobody knows really what happened," he said.
"They are very afraid, the pupils are calling their parents and the parents they want to pick [them] up but they can't do this, the parents they are not allowed to get into the classrooms," he added.
The attack is reported to have begun at about 0945 (0845 GMT).
The gunman "went into the school with a weapon and carried out a bloodbath", regional police chief Erwin Hetger said, the Associated Press news agency reported.
"I've never seen anything like this in my life," he said.
Witnesses said students jumped from the windows of the school after the gunman opened fire.
About 1,000 children are thought to attend the school, in the town some 20km (12 miles) north-east of Stuttgart.
There he shot dead two passers-by and two police officers were injured.
In total, nine students, three teachers and three passers-by are thought to be among the dead.
The chief reporter of the Stuttgart Journal newspaper, Kevin Latzel, told the BBC that there was a lot of confusion at the school.
"It's very horrible... the parents are crying, the pupils are crying and a lot of police is there and nobody knows really what happened," he said.
"They are very afraid, the pupils are calling their parents and the parents they want to pick [them] up but they can't do this, the parents they are not allowed to get into the classrooms," he added.
The attack is reported to have begun at about 0945 (0845 GMT).
The gunman "went into the school with a weapon and carried out a bloodbath", regional police chief Erwin Hetger said, the Associated Press news agency reported.
"I've never seen anything like this in my life," he said.
Witnesses said students jumped from the windows of the school after the gunman opened fire.
About 1,000 children are thought to attend the school, in the town some 20km (12 miles) north-east of Stuttgart.
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