Among public elementary schools that offered instructions in the arts, percent and standard error reporting that arts specialists contributed to various arts-related management decisions, by school characteristics: School year 1999

Table 142.	Among public elementary schools that offered instructions in the arts, percent and standard error reporting that arts specialists contributed to various arts-related management decisions, by school characteristics: School year 1999–2000

School characteristic	Input in arts eduction programs						Included on site-based management/school improvement teams or leadership councils
	Arts curriculum offered		Allocation of arts funds		Hiring of arts staff
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error
All public elementary schools	68	(2.1)	56	(2.2)	34	(2.1)	59	(1.8)

Enrollment size
Less than 300	63	(4.9)	49	(5.4)	28	(4.6)	41	(5.3)
300 to 499	70	(3.2)	54	(3.3)	36	(3.3)	66	(3.2)
500 or more	71	(2.4)	62	(2.6)	37	(2.6)	66	(2.2)
Region
Northeast	87	(3.4)	69	(4.3)	47	(4.4)	76	(3.6)
Southeast	61	(4.4)	58	(4.0)	22	(3.5)	64	(4.0)
Central	76	(3.8)	57	(4.1)	38	(4.4)	68	(3.5)
West	54	(3.4)	45	(4.1)	31	(3.3)	37	(3.8)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities¹
Less than 6 percent	74	(3.9)	59	(4.4)	38	(4.4)	61	(4.1)
6 to 20 percent	76	(3.9)	64	(4.7)	47	(4.8)	69	(4.5)
21 to 49 percent	67	(3.8)	58	(4.6)	26	(4.5)	55	(4.6)
50 percent or more	57	(4.0)	44	(3.9)	25	(3.5)	53	(4.4)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	75	(3.5)	64	(3.7)	43	(3.1)	68	(3.7)
26 to 50 percent	73	(3.8)	58	(4.0)	36	(4.1)	60	(3.4)
51 to 75 percent	64	(4.9)	54	(5.0)	30	(4.6)	54	(5.0)
76 percent or more	54	(4.6)	41	(4.6)	22	(3.6)	50	(4.5)

¹Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native students.
NOTE: Percents are based on the 98 percent of public elementary schools that reported instruction in the arts during regular school hours in the 1999–2000 school year. The data presented in this table may differ from previously published information because missing data from the 1999–2000 surveys were imputed for analysis in this report. 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, “Elementary School Arts Education Survey: Fall 1999,” FRSS 67E, 1999–2000.