| Table 25. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school music specialists, visual arts specialists, and classroom teachers reporting their teaching status in relation to arts education instruction, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Music specialist | Visual arts specialist | Classroom teacher | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taught music full time |
Taught music part time |
Taught visual arts full time |
Taught visual arts part time |
Included arts instruction in classroom program |
Taught music, visual arts, dance, or drama as a separate subject in the classroom | |||||||
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary school music, visual arts, and classroom teachers |
88 | (1.1) | 12 | (1.1) | 83 | (1.4) | 17 | (1.4) | 88 | (1.4) | 16 | (1.5) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||
| Less than 300 | 80 | (3.2) | 20 | (3.2) | 71 | (4.6) | 29 | (4.6) | 88 | (3.4) | 17 | (3.9) |
| 300 to 499 | 91 | (1.5) | 9 | (1.5) | 84 | (2.1) | 16 | (2.1) | 87 | (2.5) | 13 | (2.2) |
| 500 or more | 91 | (1.4) | 9 | (1.4) | 89 | (1.5) | 11 | (1.5) | 88 | (1.9) | 18 | (1.9) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||
| City | 91 | (2.0) | 9 | (2.0) | 89 | (2.2) | 11 | (2.2) | 85 | (2.5) | 20 | (3.1) |
| Suburban | 89 | (2.1) | 11 | (2.1) | 83 | (2.3) | 17 | (2.3) | 89 | (2.3) | 20 | (2.7) |
| Town | 90 | (2.8) | 10 | (2.8) | 82 | (4.0) | 18 | (4.0) | 86 | (3.8) | 8! | (2.7) |
| Rural | 85 | (2.4) | 15 | (2.4) | 79 | (2.7) | 21 | (2.7) | 88 | (2.6) | 12 | (2.4) |
| Region | ||||||||||||
| Northeast | 87 | (2.5) | 13 | (2.5) | 87 | (2.9) | 13 | (2.9) | 92 | (3.1) | 12 | (3.1) |
| Southeast | 93 | (1.8) | 7 | (1.8) | 89 | (2.3) | 11 | (2.3) | 83 | (3.0) | 11 | (2.2) |
| Central | 90 | (2.2) | 10 | (2.2) | 85 | (2.1) | 15 | (2.1) | 88 | (2.7) | 11 | (2.2) |
| West | 85 | (2.3) | 15 | (2.3) | 66 | (3.7) | 34 | (3.7) | 89 | (2.4) | 27 | (2.9) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 87 | (3.7) | 13 | (3.7) | 78 | (3.6) | 22 | (3.6) | 88 | (3.6) | 12 | (2.7) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 89 | (2.1) | 11 | (2.1) | 84 | (2.8) | 16 | (2.8) | 90 | (2.1) | 15 | (2.8) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 83 | (2.6) | 17 | (2.6) | 83 | (2.8) | 17 | (2.8) | 89 | (2.3) | 15 | (3.0) |
| 50 percent or more | 93 | (1.5) | 7 | (1.5) | 86 | (2.5) | 14 | (2.5) | 85 | (2.6) | 20 | (2.7) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 85 | (2.4) | 15 | (2.4) | 81 | (2.6) | 19 | (2.6) | 90 | (2.5) | 16 | (2.9) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 88 | (2.3) | 12 | (2.3) | 82 | (3.1) | 18 | (3.1) | 88 | (2.5) | 18 | (2.7) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 90 | (2.3) | 10 | (2.3) | 83 | (2.6) | 17 | (2.6) | 92 | (2.0) | 17 | (2.8) |
| 76 percent or more | 93 | (1.7) | 7 | (1.7) | 90 | (3.1) | 10! | (3.1) | 80 | (3.6) | 15 | (2.7) |
| ! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent. | ||||||||||||
| 1 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. Classroom teachers are teachers of self-contained classrooms; these teachers could teach arts areas as separate subjects or incorporate arts areas into other subjects. | ||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Survey of Elementary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 102M, 2009–10; “Survey of Elementary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 102VA, 2009–10; and “Arts Survey of Elementary School Classroom Teachers,” FRSS 102C, 2009–10. |
