however the percentage of computers connected to the internet in socioeconomically disadvantaged schools is lower than in advantaged schools and is also lower in rural than in urban schools table there are considerably more education systems where school computers in private schools are more frequently connected to the internet than those in public schools than there are education systems where computers in public schools are more frequently connected to the internet there is a similar number of pisaparticipating countries and economies where the relationship is positive as education systems where it is negative after accounting for the socioeconomic profile of students and schools