| Table 28. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school music specialists, visual arts specialists, and classroom teachers reporting that they held a regular, standard, or professional teaching certificate, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Music specialist | Visual arts specialist | Classroom teacher | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary school music, visual arts, and classroom teachers |
93 | (0.8) | 94 | (0.8) | 97 | (0.7) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||
| Less than 300 | 91 | (2.3) | 92 | (2.4) | 98 | (1.1) |
| 300 to 499 | 93 | (1.6) | 94 | (1.4) | 97 | (1.0) |
| 500 or more | 93 | (1.4) | 95 | (0.9) | 96 | (1.2) |
| Community type | ||||||
| City | 93 | (1.7) | 95 | (1.6) | 97 | (1.3) |
| Suburban | 92 | (1.6) | 96 | (1.1) | 96 | (1.2) |
| Town | 93 | (2.3) | 92 | (2.3) | 97 | (1.9) |
| Rural | 92 | (1.8) | 93 | (1.9) | 97 | (1.4) |
| Region | ||||||
| Northeast | 94 | (2.2) | 97 | (1.1) | 98 | (1.4) |
| Southeast | 96 | (1.2) | 93 | (1.7) | 94 | (1.7) |
| Central | 93 | (1.8) | 95 | (1.4) | 97 | (1.2) |
| West | 89 | (2.2) | 90 | (2.4) | 98 | (0.9) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 93 | (2.4) | 93 | (1.8) | 96 | (2.5) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 95 | (1.4) | 94 | (1.6) | 97 | (1.6) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 93 | (2.3) | 94 | (1.7) | 97 | (1.1) |
| 50 percent or more | 91 | (1.6) | 95 | (1.2) | 96 | (1.2) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 92 | (2.0) | 95 | (1.6) | 97 | (1.7) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 93 | (1.7) | 96 | (1.1) | 98 | (1.2) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 94 | (1.8) | 90 | (2.1) | 96 | (1.3) |
| 76 percent or more | 93 | (2.3) | 95 | (1.5) | 96 | (1.6) |
| 1 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||
| NOTE: Other types of teaching certificates—probationary, provisional, temporary, or emergency—were reported by music specialists (7 percent), visual arts specialists (6 percent), and classroom teachers (3 percent). 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. |
