| Table 112. | Percent and standard error for public secondary school music specialists reporting that they believed various types of support for teaching music were moderately or completely adequate, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (Return to Table 112) |
| School characteristic | Instructional resources1 | Classroom instruments2 | Classroom equipment3 | Technologies4 | Orchestra and band instruments5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public secondary school music specialists | 64 | (1.4) | 63 | (1.4) | 61 | (1.4) | 36 | (1.7) | 63 | (1.6) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||
| Less than 500 | 64 | (3.6) | 56 | (3.6) | 59 | (3.7) | 34 | (3.3) | 61 | (3.5) |
| 500 to 999 | 60 | (2.3) | 61 | (2.5) | 56 | (2.4) | 34 | (2.5) | 59 | (3.0) |
| 1,000 or more | 68 | (2.5) | 70 | (1.9) | 67 | (2.4) | 39 | (2.4) | 70 | (2.3) |
| Community type | ||||||||||
| City | 60 | (3.3) | 63 | (3.3) | 59 | (3.1) | 32 | (3.3) | 61 | (3.2) |
| Suburban | 70 | (2.7) | 69 | (3.2) | 68 | (2.9) | 41 | (3.3) | 70 | (3.1) |
| Town | 65 | (3.7) | 66 | (4.1) | 61 | (4.6) | 36 | (4.4) | 62 | (4.1) |
| Rural | 59 | (2.6) | 54 | (2.6) | 54 | (2.9) | 33 | (2.4) | 59 | (2.7) |
| Region | ||||||||||
| Northeast | 69 | (3.6) | 65 | (3.7) | 61 | (4.3) | 40 | (4.0) | 67 | (4.3) |
| Southeast | 59 | (3.2) | 52 | (3.5) | 53 | (3.3) | 36 | (3.7) | 52 | (3.5) |
| Central | 63 | (3.2) | 66 | (2.6) | 64 | (2.5) | 35 | (3.0) | 66 | (2.9) |
| West | 64 | (2.6) | 65 | (2.8) | 62 | (3.0) | 32 | (2.6) | 66 | (2.6) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities6 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 64 | (3.3) | 59 | (3.4) | 60 | (3.5) | 39 | (3.2) | 62 | (3.7) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 68 | (3.3) | 70 | (3.1) | 66 | (2.8) | 39 | (3.2) | 66 | (2.9) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 67 | (3.0) | 61 | (2.7) | 64 | (3.0) | 34 | (3.0) | 66 | (2.7) |
| 50 percent or more | 56 | (3.4) | 60 | (2.8) | 53 | (3.6) | 31 | (2.8) | 59 | (3.5) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 74 | (2.7) | 72 | (2.5) | 69 | (2.6) | 44 | (3.4) | 75 | (2.7) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 63 | (2.5) | 61 | (2.5) | 60 | (2.7) | 33 | (2.6) | 59 | (3.0) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 54 | (3.4) | 54 | (3.2) | 50 | (3.8) | 31 | (3.7) | 56 | (3.6) |
| 76 percent or more | 51 | (4.4) | 51 | (4.6) | 53 | (5.6) | 29 | (4.5) | 59 | (5.4) |
| 1 The questionnaire wording was “materials/supplies for music instruction (e.g., sheet music, subscriptions, CDs/CD-ROMs, textbooks, DVDs, software).” | ||||||||||
| 2 The questionnaire wording was “instruments typically used by students in the music classroom (e.g., auxiliary percussion, drums and ethnic percussion, keyboards, acoustic guitars).” | ||||||||||
| 3 The questionnaire wording was “equipment typically used by teachers in the music classroom (e.g., piano/digital keyboard, stereo system, iPod or mp3 player, digital recorder, microphones/sound system, guitar, digital tuners).” | ||||||||||
| 4 The questionnaire wording was “electronic equipment used in the study or creation of music (e.g., interactive white boards, computers, MIDI keyboards).” | ||||||||||
| 5 The questionnaire wording was “instruments available for students wishing to participate in the school string/orchestra or band program.” Percents are based on the 97 percent of music specialists at public secondary schools with string/orchestra or band programs during the 2009–10 school year. | ||||||||||
| 6 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||||||
| NOTE: Arts specialists are education professionals with a teaching certificate in an arts discipline—such as music, visual arts, dance, or drama/theatre—who provide separate instruction in that discipline. | ||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Survey of Secondary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 103M, 2009–10. |
