| Table 49. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school music specialists reporting that they believed various types of support for teaching music were moderately or completely adequate, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (Return to Table 49) |
| School characteristic | Instructional resources1 | Classroom instruments2 | Classroom equipment3 |
Technologies4 | Orchestra and band instruments5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary school music specialists | 69 | (1.7) | 71 | (1.6) | 66 | (1.9) | 35 | (1.7) | 57 | (2.2) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||
| Less than 300 | 58 | (4.9) | 59 | (4.0) | 55 | (4.9) | 25 | (3.2) | 41 | (5.0) |
| 300 to 499 | 70 | (3.1) | 72 | (2.5) | 65 | (2.7) | 35 | (2.7) | 63 | (3.4) |
| 500 or more | 74 | (2.4) | 77 | (2.2) | 71 | (2.7) | 40 | (2.6) | 60 | (3.5) |
| Community type | ||||||||||
| City | 63 | (3.4) | 71 | (2.9) | 62 | (3.2) | 34 | (2.8) | 69 | (3.6) |
| Suburban | 75 | (2.5) | 75 | (2.7) | 66 | (2.8) | 39 | (2.9) | 62 | (3.4) |
| Town | 73 | (4.0) | 73 | (3.6) | 69 | (4.3) | 32 | (4.2) | 43 | (6.2) |
| Rural | 66 | (3.1) | 65 | (3.3) | 66 | (3.1) | 32 | (2.5) | 39 | (4.6) |
| Region | ||||||||||
| Northeast | 70 | (3.6) | 73 | (3.5) | 62 | (3.7) | 36 | (3.5) | 60 | (3.7) |
| Southeast | 71 | (2.7) | 72 | (2.7) | 72 | (2.9) | 41 | (3.0) | 57 | (4.9) |
| Central | 66 | (4.0) | 67 | (3.4) | 62 | (3.9) | 32 | (3.1) | 51 | (5.3) |
| West | 69 | (3.2) | 74 | (3.0) | 68 | (3.4) | 33 | (3.2) | 59 | (5.0) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities6 | ||||||||||
| Less than 6 percent | 69 | (3.6) | 62 | (3.8) | 67 | (3.8) | 36 | (3.7) | 42 | (5.3) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 68 | (3.4) | 75 | (3.0) | 66 | (3.8) | 30 | (3.0) | 52 | (5.4) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 72 | (2.8) | 78 | (3.2) | 74 | (2.9) | 44 | (3.7) | 61 | (5.2) |
| 50 percent or more | 67 | (2.8) | 68 | (3.2) | 58 | (3.3) | 33 | (2.8) | 66 | (3.7) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch | ||||||||||
| 0 to 25 percent | 73 | (3.3) | 81 | (2.5) | 75 | (3.5) | 38 | (3.8) | 63 | (3.5) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 69 | (3.6) | 68 | (3.3) | 63 | (3.1) | 36 | (3.0) | 51 | (4.2) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 67 | (2.5) | 68 | (3.3) | 64 | (2.8) | 33 | (3.3) | 50 | (5.5) |
| 76 percent or more | 67 | (3.3) | 65 | (3.2) | 56 | (4.4) | 33 | (3.5) | 65 | (4.5) |
| 1 The questionnaire wording was “materials/supplies for music instruction (e.g., sheet music, subscriptions, CDs/CD-ROMs, textbooks, DVDs, software).” | ||||||||||
| 2 The questionnaire wording was “instruments typically used by students in the music classroom (e.g., rhythm band sets, recorders, autoharps, Orff instruments, drums and ethnic percussion, guitar/ukulele).” | ||||||||||
| 3 The questionnaire wording was “equipment typically used by teachers in the music classroom (e.g., piano/digital keyboard, stereo system with a CD player, mp3 player and sound dock, LCD projector).” | ||||||||||
| 4 The questionnaire wording was “electronic equipment used in the study or creation of music (e.g., SMART Boards, computers, MIDI keyboards, sequencers).” | ||||||||||
| 5 The questionnaire wording was “instruments available for students wishing to participate in the school string/orchestra or band program.” Percents are based on the 67 percent of music specialists at public elementary schools with string/orchestra or band programs during the 2009–10 school year. | ||||||||||
| 6 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. |
