2017 STATE OF THE STATES: CONNECTION TO EDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY

■ 39.2 million students are connected
■ 2.6 million teachers are connected
■ 74,000 schools are connected
■ 6.5 million students still left to connect
■ 2,049 schools still need fiber
■ 10,000 schools still need wifi
■ 85% of the 900 largest districts are buying more than 100 Kbps per student
■ 22% of school districts now meet the FCC’s 1 Mbps per student goal
■ 77% of schools without fiber are located in rural or small-town communities

SOURCE: EDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY