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Table 56.	Among public elementary school classroom teachers who included arts instruction in any aspect of their classroom program, percent and standard error reporting that they taught various arts areas as separate subjects to their students, and of those teachers, percent and standard error reporting the type of curriculum used, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 (Table 56—Continued)

School characteristic	Taught music as a separate subject¹		Music curriculum is:²				Taught visual arts as a separate subject¹		Visual arts curriculum is:²
	Taught music as a separate subject¹		Based on a written, sequential, local (or district) curriculum guide		Aligned with the state's standards or the National Standards for Arts Education		Taught visual arts as a separate subject¹		Based on a written, sequential, local (or district) curriculum guide		Aligned with the state's standards or the National Standards for Arts Education
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

All public elementary school classroom teachers	6	(0.9)	33	(8.9)	47	(9.2)	14	(1.6)	39	(4.6)	47	(5.3)

Enrollment size
Less than 300	7!	(2.5)	48!	(23.2)	63!	(21.4)	12	(3.7)	40!	(15.3)	67	(16.7)
300 to 499	4!	(1.2)	‡	(†)	71	(17.8)	12	(2.2)	46	(9.6)	67	(9.4)
500 or more	7	(1.6)	36!	(12.1)	35!	(12.1)	15	(2.2)	35	(6.2)	34	(7.3)
Community type
City	7!	(2.3)	‡	(†)	39!	(19.3)	17	(3.1)	34	(8.9)	37	(10.7)
Suburban	6	(1.6)	46!	(15.2)	50!	(15.3)	16	(2.9)	42	(8.2)	46	(7.5)
Town	6!	(2.7)	#	(†)	‡	(†)	6!	(2.5)	#	(†)	74!	(28.9)
Rural	3!	(1.2)	‡	(†)	74	(21.0)	12	(2.7)	50	(9.7)	60	(11.2)
Region
Northeast	‡	(†)	‡	(†)	100	(†)	7!	(3.0)	‡	(†)	‡	(†)
Southeast	7	(2.2)	‡	(†)	‡	(†)	9	(2.2)	35!	(14.2)	44!	(14.7)
Central	‡	(†)	‡	(†)	‡	(†)	9	(2.3)	50!	(15.5)	48	(13.2)
West	9	(1.9)	47	(13.3)	62	(12.9)	25	(2.9)	42	(6.6)	52	(7.7)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities³
Less than 6 percent	‡	(†)	‡	(†)	‡	(†)	10!	(2.9)	60	(16.4)	38!	(17.4)
6 to 20 percent	6!	(1.8)	‡	(†)	60!	(20.3)	11	(2.9)	30!	(11.7)	62	(11.5)
21 to 49 percent	4!	(1.5)	54!	(25.5)	78!	(23.7)	14	(3.0)	45	(8.7)	54	(9.8)
50 percent or more	9	(2.1)	23!	(11.4)	29!	(12.3)	18	(2.9)	35	(7.8)	38	(9.4)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	5!	(1.9)	‡	(†)	63!	(24.0)	14	(2.8)	50	(10.7)	59	(10.4)
26 to 50 percent	6!	(2.0)	‡	(†)	53!	(23.7)	17	(2.9)	39	(10.6)	48	(9.9)
51 to 75 percent	5	(1.5)	‡	(†)	48!	(18.2)	14	(3.0)	32!	(10.1)	40	(10.2)
76 percent or more	8	(2.2)	‡	(†)	‡	(†)	11	(2.8)	30!	(14.5)	41!	(14.5)

See notes at end of table.