| Table 21. | Among public elementary schools that offered instruction in the arts, percentage distribution and standard error reporting that the support for arts instruction was somewhat or very adequate, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 (Table 21—Continued) |
| School characteristic | Funding | Facilities (e.g., classroom, storage, display) |
Materials, equipment, tools, and instruments | Instructional time for the arts |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
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| All public elementary schools | 61 | (1.7) | 73 | (1.4) | 78 | (1.3) | 72 | (1.6) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||
| Less than 300 | 55 | (4.0) | 67 | (3.3) | 74 | (3.2) | 68 | (3.9) |
| 300 to 499 | 63 | (2.4) | 75 | (2.2) | 80 | (2.3) | 76 | (2.6) |
| 500 or more | 63 | (2.2) | 76 | (2.2) | 78 | (2.0) | 71 | (2.3) |
| Community type | ||||||||
| City | 57 | (3.3) | 71 | (2.8) | 79 | (2.3) | 71 | (3.2) |
| Suburban | 69 | (3.0) | 79 | (2.4) | 80 | (2.6) | 73 | (2.8) |
| Town | 60 | (4.8) | 78 | (3.6) | 83 | (3.3) | 69 | (5.0) |
| Rural | 56 | (3.3) | 68 | (3.2) | 72 | (3.2) | 73 | (3.3) |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 72 | (3.1) | 77 | (3.5) | 84 | (2.9) | 84 | (3.1) |
| Southeast | 57 | (2.7) | 72 | (3.0) | 74 | (2.7) | 73 | (2.8) |
| Central | 70 | (2.4) | 80 | (2.3) | 87 | (2.2) | 82 | (2.7) |
| West | 48 | (3.4) | 65 | (3.1) | 67 | (3.1) | 55 | (3.3) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 62 | (3.9) | 71 | (3.5) | 79 | (3.1) | 80 | (3.5) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 68 | (2.9) | 81 | (2.6) | 83 | (2.2) | 78 | (3.6) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 58 | (3.4) | 73 | (3.2) | 75 | (3.0) | 64 | (3.2) |
| 50 percent or more | 57 | (3.0) | 70 | (2.9) | 75 | (2.3) | 69 | (2.6) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 72 | (3.1) | 81 | (2.6) | 82 | (2.4) | 83 | (2.6) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 63 | (3.2) | 73 | (2.6) | 79 | (2.0) | 71 | (2.8) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 56 | (3.2) | 71 | (2.6) | 78 | (2.7) | 68 | (3.4) |
| 76 percent or more | 54 | (3.4) | 70 | (3.2) | 72 | (2.6) | 69 | (3.5) |
| See notes at end of table. |
