EducationSuperHighway is a national non-profit with the mission to close the digital divide for the 18 million households that have access to the Internet but can't afford to connect. We focus on America's most unconnected communities, where more than 25% of people don't have Internet. From 2012-2020 we led the effort that closed the classroom connectivity gap. In 2013, only 10% of students had access to digital learning in their classrooms. Today, thanks to an unprecedented bi-partisan effort by federal, state, and school district leaders, supported by K-12 advocacy organizations, the classroom connectivity gap is closed — 47 million students are connected, and 99.3% of America's schools have a high-speed broadband connection.
Analyzing internet broadband availability by location (state, county, city, zip, census tract), income, race and ethnicity, age, types of housing units (multi-dwelling units), internet subscription and other demographic factors and its relationship to the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) enrollment by state, county, city and zip. With the newly released FCC National Broadband Map, our objective is to understand how internet availability (or lack thereof) is related to various demographic factors so we can target communities that are most unconnected in our mission to close the digital divide.
