In Funding Year 2023, E-rate applicants requested discounts on Internet and data services that will be delivered to 130,649 individual school and library locations nationwide. That figure edges out the previous record set in 2022 by fifteen schools and libraries:
Nationwide, E-rate applicants requested almost $1.7 billion in support for Category One services in Funding Year 2023, putting an end to a five-year decline in annual Category One request totals.
