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FIGURE 2:  STUDENTS PER COMPUTER IN U.S. SCHOOLS

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TABLE  2: INDICATORS OF COMPUTER DENSITY IN USA
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLSa, 1998

   

Elementary

Middle

High School

Total

Mean and Median

Mean

75

109

174

100

Number of Instructional
Computers per School

Median

69

98

122

79

Mean and Median

Mean

7.6

6.8

6.8

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Number of Students
per Computer

Median

6.3

5.2

5.2

6.0

Total Number of
Computers (in thousands)

 

(4,026)

(1,806)

(2,762)

(8,595)

Source: Teaching, Learning, and Computing Survey of K-12 Schools in USA, 1998 http://www.crito.uci.edu/TLC

aElementary schools were defined as those schools with a median grade range of 5.5 or lower; high schools as those with

a median grade of 9.5 or higher; and those in between as middle schools.

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