| 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—Continued (Return to Table 21) |
| School characteristic | Number of arts specialists | Arts professional development for teachers/specialists | Student interest or demand | Parent or community support | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary schools | 64 | (1.7) | 59 | (1.7) | 88 | (1.0) | 80 | (1.2) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||
| Less than 300 | 60 | (4.3) | 55 | (4.6) | 83 | (2.8) | 75 | (3.1) |
| 300 to 499 | 69 | (2.4) | 60 | (2.9) | 88 | (1.6) | 81 | (2.0) |
| 500 or more | 62 | (2.3) | 61 | (2.4) | 90 | (1.5) | 82 | (1.8) |
| Community type | ||||||||
| City | 63 | (3.6) | 57 | (2.9) | 88 | (2.1) | 75 | (2.8) |
| Suburban | 68 | (2.9) | 63 | (3.1) | 92 | (1.6) | 87 | (2.2) |
| Town | 59 | (4.9) | 47 | (4.2) | 89 | (3.1) | 78 | (4.2) |
| Rural | 64 | (3.1) | 61 | (3.6) | 83 | (2.2) | 78 | (2.8) |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 80 | (3.1) | 68 | (3.4) | 94 | (2.0) | 85 | (2.8) |
| Southeast | 62 | (2.8) | 64 | (3.3) | 85 | (2.4) | 75 | (2.8) |
| Central | 75 | (3.2) | 66 | (2.6) | 89 | (2.0) | 81 | (2.6) |
| West | 45 | (3.1) | 43 | (3.3) | 85 | (2.0) | 79 | (2.6) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 73 | (3.7) | 65 | (4.4) | 87 | (2.3) | 81 | (3.0) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 70 | (3.8) | 62 | (3.6) | 92 | (1.8) | 88 | (2.0) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 56 | (3.0) | 53 | (3.6) | 84 | (2.5) | 79 | (2.7) |
| 50 percent or more | 61 | (2.7) | 57 | (3.1) | 88 | (1.9) | 74 | (2.7) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 74 | (2.6) | 66 | (3.5) | 95 | (1.5) | 92 | (1.8) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 69 | (3.1) | 62 | (3.7) | 87 | (2.4) | 84 | (2.5) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 59 | (3.5) | 53 | (3.3) | 86 | (2.0) | 76 | (2.6) |
| 76 percent or more | 56 | (3.5) | 55 | (3.7) | 83 | (2.4) | 70 | (2.7) |
| 1 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||||
| NOTE: Percents are based on the 96 percent of public elementary schools that reported instruction in the arts during regular school hours in the 2009–10 school year. 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 2009,” FRSS 100, 2009–10. |
