| Table 43. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school music and visual arts specialists reporting that they taught at more than one school, by teaching status and school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Music specialist | Visual arts specialist | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All music specialists | Taught music full time | Taught music part time | All visual arts specialists | Taught visual arts full time | Taught visual arts part time | |||||||
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary school music and visual arts specialists |
53 | (1.6) | 54 | (1.7) | 43 | (5.2) | 42 | (1.6) | 43 | (1.7) | 36 | (6.0) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||
| Less than 300 | 72 | (3.0) | 76 | (3.2) | 56 | (9.9) | 81 | (3.5) | 86 | (3.5) | 68 | (8.6) |
| 300 to 499 | 57 | (2.4) | 60 | (2.6) | 34! | (10.1) | 45 | (2.8) | 50 | (3.0) | 23! | (7.8) |
| 500 or more | 39 | (2.5) | 39 | (2.8) | 38 | (9.5) | 18 | (1.9) | 20 | (2.1) | ‡ | (†) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||
| City | 51 | (3.2) | 53 | (3.3) | 38 | (10.0) | 32 | (2.7) | 35 | (3.0) | ‡ | (†) |
| Suburban | 54 | (2.8) | 55 | (2.9) | 51 | (9.8) | 40 | (3.1) | 41 | (3.3) | 37 | (8.7) |
| Town | 52 | (3.6) | 55 | (3.6) | ‡ | (†) | 50 | (5.3) | 48 | (5.3) | 59 | (14.5) |
| Rural | 52 | (2.9) | 54 | (3.0) | 44 | (9.4) | 53 | (3.1) | 55 | (2.8) | 43 | (9.4) |
| Region | ||||||||||||
| Northeast | 58 | (3.7) | 59 | (3.5) | 52 | (13.1) | 43 | (3.7) | 43 | (3.6) | 43 | (11.3) |
| Southeast | 38 | (2.7) | 40 | (2.7) | ‡ | (†) | 30 | (2.5) | 32 | (2.9) | 17! | (7.6) |
| Central | 61 | (3.6) | 63 | (3.9) | 45 | (12.8) | 59 | (2.8) | 59 | (3.0) | 57 | (10.6) |
| West | 49 | (3.3) | 50 | (3.5) | 44 | (8.2) | 26 | (3.5) | 27 | (4.3) | 23! | (8.0) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 62 | (4.8) | 64 | (4.6) | 54 | (15.1) | 62 | (4.2) | 64 | (4.6) | 56 | (9.9) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 59 | (3.6) | 62 | (3.6) | 33! | (13.3) | 46 | (4.1) | 50 | (4.3) | 25! | (10.8) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 49 | (3.2) | 49 | (3.4) | 48 | (9.3) | 43 | (3.6) | 42 | (3.9) | 45 | (11.6) |
| 50 percent or more | 45 | (2.6) | 45 | (2.6) | 37! | (12.1) | 25 | (2.8) | 26 | (3.0) | ‡ | (†) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 58 | (3.5) | 61 | (3.6) | 43 | (10.2) | 41 | (3.1) | 43 | (3.5) | 32 | (8.2) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 52 | (3.0) | 54 | (3.1) | 40 | (11.7) | 44 | (3.9) | 47 | (4.0) | 30! | (10.4) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 51 | (3.7) | 51 | (3.8) | 50 | (10.0) | 50 | (3.4) | 49 | (3.6) | 52 | (10.5) |
| 76 percent or more | 46 | (4.0) | 47 | (3.9) | 41! | (13.9) | 34 | (3.7) | 35 | (3.6) | ‡ | (†) |
| † Not applicable. | ||||||||||||
| ! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent. | ||||||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | ||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||
| 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; and “Survey of Elementary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 102VA, 2009–10. |
