2023 Utah School Technology Inventory Report
February 21, 2024
In December 2023, the Utah Education Network, in collaboration with the national nonprofit Connected Nation, completed the state’s fifth school technology inventory. This is a statewide inventory of classroom technology and related resources at K-12 district and charter schools across Utah. Key findings include:
- The device-per-student ratio has increased over time since 2015 but remained the same between the 2021 and 2023 inventories for district schools.
- Statewide, 7 out of 10 schools (70 percent) report that they deploy mobile learning devices such as laptops or tablet computers to students on a 1:1 basis.
- Statewide, nearly 2 out of 5 Utah schools (38 percent) offer mobile learning devices on a 1:1 basis and allow students to take those devices home, maintaining a similar rate from 2021 (39 percent).
- Google Chromebooks remain the most popular type of computing device for students, with schools reporting that more than 594,000 Chromebooks are made available to students statewide.
- Only 7 percent of Utah schools say that the wireless hardware used in the school is newer than one year old, which is a significant decline since the 2021 inventory.
- Wired networking hardware in Utah K-12 schools tends to be even older—with nearly half of the schools (48 percent) reporting that their wired hardware is four years old or older.
2023 UTAH SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY INVENTORY REPORT