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Statistics in Brief: Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, Fall 1996
NCES: 97944
February 1997

Type of Internet Capabilities Available

Ninety percent of schools with Internet access had e-mail and 89 percent had access to the World Wide Web (Table 3). Ninety-four percent of schools with World Wide Web access made it available to teachers, 86 percent made it available for administrative staff, and 74 percent made it available to students. While most schools on the Internet provided teachers and staff access to e-mail, about a third (35 percent) made it available for student use.