Find your numbers
Look up any Pennsylvania E-Rate applicant.
Enter your ZIP code, or search by name — school district, charter school, career & technical center, Intermediate Unit, library, independent or religious school, or a shared regional network.
All 1,255 funded Pennsylvania applicants are here. A public school district opens its regional page — the whole story for that part of the state. Everyone else opens their own record in the Data Explorer, with the committed total, the Category 1 and 2 split, and the number of funding requests behind it. Every result also links straight to the map.
Or browse the whole commonwealth.
The map draws every dollar by school district, and layers on the shared regional networks and the charter, career & technical, independent and library applicants that have no district boundary of their own. The Data Explorer is the same figures as a table you can sort, filter by county or type, and export.
What’s at stake
A proven program faces its biggest threat.
E-Rate is the fifth largest stream of federal funding in the nation’s schools. It is the only federal education technology program, and over nearly 30 years it has consistently, effectively and responsibly supported connectivity for schools and libraries in every one of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties. In June 2026 the FCC opened a rulemaking that asks whether it should continue.
What you need to know
E-Rate helps schools and libraries access the affordable broadband that supports the connectivity and network modern buildings need to carry on the important work of serving students and patrons.
$672M committed · 1,321 schools, districts, consortia & librariesSee it on the interactive map →E-Rate is a proven program that has single-handedly transformed internet access in classrooms. The program has a long track record of success and enjoys strong bi-partisan support on Capitol Hill. The FCC’s review is expansive and asks more than 100 questions about the program, its future, and its structure.
Read a summary of the FCC’s NPRM (PDF) →How you can engage
Here’s everything you need to know about WHY your voice matters, HOW to craft your response, and WHERE to file it with the FCC.
Comments are due October 13, 2026Read our Call to Action (PDF) →We are fielding a lot of questions as members work through the proposal and begin writing their comments. We have some answers!
Read our FAQ for more information (PDF) →The summary, Call to Action and FAQ are published by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and the Association of Educational Service Agencies, co-branded with the Pennsylvania Digital Trust Hub and the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. Read the AASA blog →
Where Pennsylvania's E-Rate goes
Districts, consortia, and libraries — the whole public-connectivity fabric.
Committed federal funding, FY2016–2026, grouped by applicant type. School districts anchor the program; regional consortia are the second-largest type, pooling buying power so member schools can buy connectivity together — a category that spans IU-run regional networks like the AIU’s alongside library, non-public, and charter-school consortia.3
Committed to Pennsylvania each funding year
FY2026 is still open — its lighter bar shows commitments to date. Statewide federal committed share of funded requests, de-duplicated to the funding-request level. Source: USAC Open Data (qdmp-ygft).
Support that follows need — not geography
The less a district can afford, the more E-Rate provides.
E-Rate scales its support to each district's share of economically disadvantaged students, so Pennsylvania's least-resourced districts draw the deepest support: of the 514 public school districts with FY2025 Category One filings, 201 — nearly 4 in 10 — qualify at the maximum 90% rate, and 292 — 57% of them — qualify at 80% or above.5 And the top tier is not an urban story or a rural one: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Reading sit at 90% right alongside Hazleton Area and East Stroudsburg. Support follows poverty, not geography.
Every region depends on it
One county's story, multiplied across the Commonwealth.
In Allegheny County alone, E-Rate has committed $46.2M to 43 public school districts and their career and technical centers. That investment also supports a shared regional wide-area network, coordinated by the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, that provides high-quality connectivity to 46 member districts and career and technical centers.
Allegheny County is just one of Pennsylvania's 29 Intermediate Unit regions. Multiply this story across urban, suburban, and rural communities statewide, and you begin to see the scale of what is at stake: $672 million in federal E-Rate investment supporting Pennsylvania's schools and libraries.
Who else E-Rate reaches
The map draws school districts. E-Rate reaches further than that.
Pennsylvania’s public school districts hold the largest share of the state’s E-Rate dollars — but they are not the whole picture. Charter and cyber charter schools, career & technical centers, the Intermediate Units, hundreds of independent and religious schools, and every public library system file their own applications. A rule change reaches all of them.
| Who files | Applicants | Committed | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public school districts | 496 | $391.9M | 61.9% |
| Shared regional networks (consortia) | 61 | $112.6M | 17.8% |
| Charter schools | 139 | $64.3M | 10.1% |
| Independent & religious schools | 313 | $24.7M | 3.9% |
| Libraries & library systems | 159 | $18.9M | 3.0% |
| Career & technical centers | 53 | $9.2M | 1.5% |
| Intermediate Units | 27 | $7.6M | 1.2% |
| Cyber charter schools | 7 | $4.3M | 0.7% |
Why this total is not the $672M above. The $672 million headline covers FY2016–2026. USAC has since withdrawn FY2016 from its public dataset, so the breakdown here covers FY2017–2026, pulled 2026-09-19 — the years it still publishes. The two are the same program counted over different spans, and should not be added together.
How each applicant was classified. Public school districts, charter and cyber charter schools, career & technical centers and Intermediate Units come from the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s own LEA roster wherever it names the applicant; USAC’s entity type cannot carry this on its own, since it files several charter networks and one archdiocese as “school districts.” Independent & religious schools is the remainder — identified from USAC records alone, with no non-public roster joined — and includes alternative-education and licensed private academic schools alongside the independent and faith-based ones.
Your voice is needed — now
Take action to protect E-Rate.
The FCC’s comment period on Docket 26-133 closes October 13, 2026 — a narrow window to show the Commission and Congress what these changes would cost Pennsylvania's schools and libraries. Here are three ways to help, in the order that matters most.
Sign on with the Digital Trust Hub
Add your district or organization to our statewide coalition standing up for E-Rate. One signature adds your name to the comment we file with the FCC on Docket 26-133 and to our coalition’s letters to lawmakers.
Sign your organization on →Write your own comment to the FCC
Your own comment is counted separately from ours, and the Commission weighs individual, evidence-based comments far more heavily than identical form letters. Our partners at AASA (The School Superintendents Association) have a guided tool that turns your words and your organization’s real E-Rate figures into a comment ready to file.
Figures in the builder cover FY2021–25; this page covers FY2016–26. Both are USAC data — they count different years.
Build your FCC comment →Tell Congress to protect E-Rate
Reach out directly to your lawmakers. Our partners at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have a one-click tool that finds your U.S. Senators and Representative and sends them your message.
Contact Congress now →Find your delegation
The CoSN tool routes to your exact offices automatically — your two U.S. Senators, Sen. John Fetterman and Sen. Dave McCormick, and your local U.S. Representative — wherever in Pennsylvania you live.
Short on words? Use this template for Step 3 ↓
Make it local: find your district on the statewide map and drop your own numbers into the letter — a message grounded in your district’s figures lands hardest.
Sources
The data behind this page.
Every figure on this page comes from USAC's public federal E-Rate Open Data, funding years 2016–2026. Each source is linked below. How we pulled and de-duplicated this data →
- Pennsylvania E-Rate committed funding. The federal share of funded requests filed by all Pennsylvania applicants — $672.3M across 1,321 districts, schools, consortia, and libraries, FY2016–2026.
- PA disbursements. Funds actually paid out to Pennsylvania billed entities (Forms 472/474): $612.3M — a 91% realization of commitments.
- Funding by applicant type. Committed dollars grouped by organization type — districts, consortia, schools, and libraries.
- Proposed FCC rule changes. Summarized from the member advocacy update by the Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA) — with the School Superintendents Association (AASA), the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO), and the National Rural Education Association (NREA) — on the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking reviewing the E-Rate program.
- District discount rates. FY2025 Category One discount percentages for the 514 Pennsylvania public school districts with current-version FY2025 applications — 201 at the 90% maximum, 292 at 80% or above.
