PHOENIX (Stacker) - Access to high-speed net successful schools has travel a agelong mode successful the past decade. In 2013, 70% of U.S. schools lacked an net transportation of 100 Kbps per student, the minimum velocity the Federal Communication Commission acceptable to conscionable basal schoolroom needs. By 2018, less than 2% of schools failed to conscionable that threshold.
As much schools integrate exertion into the classroom, the request for fast, reliable net is adjacent greater. In 2020, the FCC upped the bandwidth minimum to 1 Mbps per student—10 times faster than the erstwhile minimum. Nearly 6 successful 10 schoolhouse districts met oregon exceeded that benchmark successful 2021—a 25% summation twelvemonth implicit year, according to an investigation from Connect K-12.Still, astir 28 cardinal U.S. students deficiency capable net speeds to efficaciously and regularly prosecute successful integer schoolroom learning.
Stacker compiled a database of schoolhouse districts successful Arizona with the slowest net speeds utilizing information from Connect K-12. School districts are ranked by net velocity successful Mbps. Ties are breached by the fig of students successful the schoolhouse district.
#10. Florence Unified School District 1- Bandwidth per student: 0.28 Mbps
- Total students: 9,493
- Cost per Mbps: $2.12
- Total monthly cost: $4,239.00
#9. Duncan Unified School District 2- Bandwidth per student: 0.27 Mbps
- Total students: 368
- Cost per Mbps: $9
- Total monthly cost: $900.00
#8. Liberty School District 25- Bandwidth per student: 0.26 Mbps
- Total students: 4,531
- Cost per Mbps: $4.64
- Total monthly cost: $4,642.00
#7. Washington School District 6- Bandwidth per student: 0.26 Mbps
- Total students: 24,261
- Cost per Mbps: $0.5
- Total monthly cost: $1,995.00
#6. Blue Ridge Unified School District 32- Bandwidth per student: 0.23 Mbps
- Total students: 3,436
- Cost per Mbps: $4.93
- Total monthly cost: $3,450.00
#5. Canon Elem School District 50- Bandwidth per student: 0.22 Mbps
- Total students: 136
- Cost per Mbps: $110.15
- Total monthly cost: $3,304.62
#4. Buckeye School District 33- Bandwidth per student: 0.22 Mbps
- Total students: 5,455
- Cost per Mbps: $0.71
- Total monthly cost: $714.20
#3. Lake Havasu Unified School District 1- Bandwidth per student: 0.21 Mbps
- - Total students: 5,747
- - Cost per Mbps: $2.19
- - Total monthly cost: $2,193.00
#2. Humboldt Unified School District 22- Bandwidth per student: 0.21 Mbps
- Total students: 5,781
- Cost per Mbps: $3.3
- Total monthly cost: $3,304.62
#1. St Johns Unified School District 1- Bandwidth per student: 0.12 Mbps
- Total students: 861
- Cost per Mbps: $80.5
- Total monthly cost: $8,050.00
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