School Facilities, Access, and Use of Technology

This section provides data on school facilities, including access and use of technology.

Decent, safe, and secure facilities are essential to successful educational programs.

Access and Use of Technology

• D.2.b.-1 Percentage of public schools that have instructional computers with Internet access, ratio of students to instructional computers with Internet access, percentage of schools that have instructional computers in classrooms, ratio of intructional computers in classrooms to number of classrooms, and percentage distribution of schools reporting the type of wireless network access in school, by school locale: Fall 2008
• D.2.b.-2 Percentage of public schools providing handheld computing devices to administrators, teachers, or students, and among those schools, the mean number of handhelds for administrators, the ratio of full-time-equivalent (FTE) teachers to handhelds, and the ratio of students to handhelds, by school locale: Fall 2008