| Table 71. | Among public secondary schools that offered instruction in various arts subjects, percentage distribution and standard error for reporting the number of different types of arts courses taught, by school characteristics: School year 2008–09 (Table 71—Continued) |
| School characteristic | Music1 | Visual arts2 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 or 2 courses | 3 or 4 courses | 5 or more courses | 1 or 2 courses | 3 or 4 courses | 5 or more courses | |||||||
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public secondary schools | 24 | (1.5) | 30 | (1.7) | 46 | (1.9) | 28 | (1.5) | 32 | (1.5) | 40 | (1.7) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||
| Less than 500 | 44 | (3.1) | 33 | (2.8) | 23 | (3.2) | 41 | (3.1) | 35 | (3.1) | 24 | (2.7) |
| 500 to 999 | 15 | (1.9) | 34 | (2.6) | 50 | (2.8) | 25 | (1.9) | 35 | (2.5) | 40 | (2.3) |
| 1,000 or more | 6 | (1.3) | 20 | (2.0) | 74 | (2.3) | 14 | (2.2) | 22 | (2.2) | 64 | (2.6) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||
| City | 18 | (3.2) | 26 | (3.0) | 56 | (3.5) | 34 | (3.3) | 27 | (3.1) | 39 | (3.0) |
| Suburban | 12 | (2.2) | 27 | (2.9) | 62 | (3.7) | 24 | (2.3) | 28 | (3.1) | 48 | (2.9) |
| Town | 20 | (4.5) | 36 | (3.7) | 45 | (4.1) | 20 | (3.3) | 36 | (4.3) | 44 | (3.8) |
| Rural | 37 | (2.8) | 32 | (2.8) | 31 | (3.2) | 32 | (2.5) | 35 | (3.1) | 33 | (3.1) |
| Region | ||||||||||||
| Northeast | 16 | (3.8) | 21 | (3.5) | 62 | (3.9) | 21 | (3.4) | 29 | (3.7) | 50 | (4.3) |
| Southeast | 24 | (3.3) | 30 | (3.3) | 46 | (3.3) | 30 | (3.2) | 36 | (3.2) | 34 | (3.6) |
| Central | 26 | (2.9) | 32 | (3.0) | 42 | (3.1) | 22 | (2.8) | 33 | (3.2) | 46 | (3.4) |
| West | 26 | (3.2) | 33 | (3.1) | 41 | (3.1) | 38 | (2.7) | 30 | (2.8) | 33 | (2.4) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities5 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 33 | (3.4) | 31 | (3.2) | 37 | (3.9) | 27 | (3.2) | 31 | (3.3) | 42 | (2.8) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 19 | (3.3) | 26 | (3.1) | 54 | (3.5) | 18 | (2.2) | 36 | (3.5) | 46 | (3.5) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 17 | (2.7) | 33 | (3.3) | 50 | (4.0) | 24 | (3.7) | 39 | (3.9) | 37 | (3.3) |
| 50 percent or more | 25 | (3.0) | 30 | (3.1) | 45 | (3.3) | 43 | (2.9) | 22 | (2.3) | 35 | (3.1) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 16 | (2.5) | 22 | (2.5) | 62 | (2.7) | 14 | (2.6) | 30 | (3.6) | 56 | (3.7) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 24 | (2.1) | 34 | (2.7) | 43 | (3.1) | 26 | (2.6) | 37 | (2.7) | 37 | (2.7) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 29 | (2.4) | 30 | (2.8) | 41 | (2.9) | 35 | (3.4) | 29 | (3.6) | 36 | (3.2) |
| 76 percent or more | 30 | (5.7) | 35 | (5.7) | 35 | (4.2) | 52 | (4.1) | 26 | (4.1) | 22 | (3.7) |
| See notes at end of table. |
