| Table 59. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school classroom teachers reporting that they somewhat or strongly agreed with statements about arts instruction at their currently assigned school, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | I consider instruction in the arts an important part of the school's curriculum |
Students look forward to instruction or activities that involve the arts |
Arts specialists should be responsible for arts instruction |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary school classroom teachers |
89 | (1.3) | 94 | (1.0) | 82 | (1.4) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||
| Less than 300 | 93 | (2.4) | 96 | (2.0) | 85 | (3.8) |
| 300 to 499 | 89 | (2.2) | 95 | (1.4) | 84 | (2.3) |
| 500 or more | 88 | (1.8) | 92 | (1.6) | 81 | (2.2) |
| Community type | ||||||
| City | 88 | (2.1) | 91 | (2.2) | 80 | (2.8) |
| Suburban | 91 | (1.9) | 94 | (1.8) | 81 | (2.8) |
| Town | 87 | (3.6) | 96 | (1.9) | 84 | (3.6) |
| Rural | 88 | (2.5) | 94 | (1.6) | 85 | (2.1) |
| Region | ||||||
| Northeast | 94 | (1.9) | 95 | (1.8) | 83 | (3.2) |
| Southeast | 88 | (2.4) | 92 | (2.1) | 85 | (2.8) |
| Central | 93 | (2.2) | 95 | (1.7) | 86 | (2.4) |
| West | 84 | (2.4) | 94 | (1.9) | 77 | (2.9) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 92 | (2.8) | 94 | (2.6) | 87 | (2.8) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 88 | (3.2) | 90 | (2.7) | 86 | (2.3) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 92 | (2.0) | 98 | (0.9) | 84 | (2.8) |
| 50 percent or more | 86 | (2.3) | 92 | (1.9) | 77 | (2.8) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 87 | (2.8) | 94 | (2.0) | 87 | (2.9) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 93 | (2.6) | 93 | (2.6) | 85 | (2.6) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 89 | (2.1) | 97 | (1.3) | 78 | (3.3) |
| 76 percent or more | 87 | (2.8) | 90 | (2.5) | 80 | (2.6) |
| 1 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||
| NOTE: Classroom teachers are teachers of self-contained classrooms; these teachers could teach arts areas as separate subjects or incorporate arts areas into other subjects. 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, “Arts Survey of Elementary School Classroom Teachers,” FRSS 102C, 2009–10. |
