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According to our data, 96% of school districts switched to online learning amidst the lockdown. So how did school districts that were forced to switch to emergency remote learning fare? Which districts—and states—were prepared to go online overnight? Which flourished in the transition and which struggled?
The team at Go.Verizon.com was curious, so we analyzed the number of households within each state and city with access to a broadband connection, computer or laptop, online learning platform, and more. As it turns out, the districts that didn’t fare well in the transition also had numerous households with slow internet or poor Wi-Fi connectivity.
We were also curious: how did making the switch online affect students’ academic performance? To find out, we surveyed 1,639 parents. (Spoiler: students’ academic performance mostly stayed the same or improved.) Read on to find out more.
State | Best School District |
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Alabama | Greene County |
Alaska | Copper River School District |
Arizona | Chinle Unified District (4158) |
Arkansas | Decatur School District |
California | Laton Joint Unified |
Colorado | Del Norte Consolidated School District No. C-7 |
Connecticut | East Haddam School District |
Delaware | Christina School District |
D.C. | District of Columbia Public Schools |
Florida | Gadsden |
Georgia | Pulaski County |
Hawaii | Hawaii Department Of Education |
Idaho | Clark County District |
Illinois | Calhoun CUSD 40 |
Indiana | Lake Ridge New Tech Schools |
Iowa | Moulton-Udell Comm School District |
Kansas | Hamilton |
Kentucky | Elliott County |
Louisiana | Grant Parish |
Maine | RSU 23 |
Maryland | Kent County Public Schools |
Massachusetts | Quaboag Regional |
Michigan | Carrollton Public Schools |
Minnesota | Red Lake Public School District |
Mississippi | Jones Co School District |
Missouri | Climax Springs R-IV |
Montana | Dodson K-12 |
Nebraska | Minatare Public Schools |
Nevada | Eureka County School District |
New Hampshire | Lincoln-Woodstock School District |
New Jersey | Elsinboro Township School District |
New Mexico | Cobre Consolidated Schools |
New York | Bridgehampton Union Free School District |
North Carolina | Pender County Schools |
North Dakota | Milnor 2 |
Ohio | Newcomerstown Exempted Village |
Oklahoma | Boise City Public School District |
Oregon | Neah-Kah-Nie School District |
Pennsylvania | Chester-Upland SD |
Rhode Island | Newport |
South Carolina | Jasper 01 |
South Dakota | Dupree School District 64-2 |
Tennessee | Macon County |
Texas | McMullen County ISD |
Utah | Piute District |
Vermont | Hartford School District |
Virginia | Carroll Co PBLC SCHS |
Washington | Othello School District |
West Virginia | Clay County Schools |
Wisconsin | Flambeau School District |
Wyoming | Fremont County School District #14 |
To collect data on the best and worst school districts for online learning, we used the following graphs from the Census Bureau and the NCES.ED.GOV: GS00SS08, S2801, and S0101.
From there, we ranked each district based on the following factors:
We surveyed 1,639 parents of students in grades K-12 via Pollfish and Mouseflow surveys to learn about their students’ transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked questions about ease of transition, academic performance before and after the switch online, learning management and video conferencing platforms used, and more.
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