Dropbox Adds Second Largest U.S. School District to Customer Base

Dropbox is now working with the second-largest school district in the United States: the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

In a Dropbox for Business blog post, the San Francisco-based company revealed it had recently acquired LAUSD as a customer, noting that it will provide its cloud-based storage solution to more than 640,000 students and 30,000 teachers across 900 schools as part of the deal.

Dropbox said in the post that LAUSD had been in need of a product that would allow teachers, employees and others outside of the district to share and access files — including vendor information, grant projects and training materials — from various devices and locations.

An American School and University Magazine list that ranks the largest school systems in the United States by enrollment places New York City’s school district in front of LAUSD, with more than 1.04 million students.

This announcement follows Dropbox’s channel program invitation to channel partners around the globe, welcoming them to the Dropbox Partner Network, the company’s program for its channel partners.

In related market news, Box, one of Dropbox’s largest competitors in the space, announced earlier this month that it had signed an agreement with General Electric (GE) to provide its cloud-based content collaboration platform to more than 300,000 employees located in more than 170 countries.

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