Table 3.5a. Percentage of public schools with internet access, by type of access available and locale: 2005

Status of Education in Rural America

NCES 2007-040
June 2007

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Table 3.5a.

Percentage of public schools with internet access, by type of access available and locale: 2005

Locale	With internet access in school
	Total ¹	Using broadband internet connection ²	Using any type of wireless internet connection ²^,³	Instructional classooms
	Total ¹	Using broadband internet connection ²	Using any type of wireless internet connection ²^,³	With internet access ¹	With wireless connection ¹^,³
Total	99.6	97.3	45.4	93.6	15.0
City	99.4	97.8	49.7	87.5	17.1
Suburban	99.3	97.6	49.2	95.6	16.2
Town	100.0	100.0	40.2	97.6	14.0
Rural	100.0	95.4	41.4	94.8	12.4
¹ Percentages are based on all public schools. ² Percentages are based on public schools with internet access. ³ Percentages include schools using solely wireless internet connections (both broadband and narrowband), as well as schools using both wireless and wired connections. NOTE: For estimates that are 100 percent, the event defined could have been reported by fewer schools had a different sample been drawn. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS), "Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools, Fall 2005," FRSS 90, 2005.