The E-rate program currently provides financial aid for Internet connections that support 53,990,412 K-12 students in the United States.
According to recent data from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), there are 56.577 million K-12 students in the United States. Therefore, based on this data, 95.4% of K-12 students in the United States were listed on funding year 2020 E-rate applications.