| Table 76. | Among public secondary schools that offered instruction in various arts subjects, percent and standard error reporting that their district had a written curriculum guide that teachers were expected to follow, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Music1 | Visual arts1 | Dance1 | Drama/theatre1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public secondary schools | 81 | (1.4) | 83 | (1.5) | 66 | (4.1) | 72 | (2.1) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||
| Less than 500 | 81 | (2.7) | 81 | (2.9) | 51 | (12.0) | 64 | (4.8) |
| 500 to 999 | 79 | (2.2) | 82 | (2.5) | 63 | (7.7) | 68 | (4.1) |
| 1,000 or more | 86 | (2.2) | 88 | (1.9) | 74 | (4.3) | 83 | (2.8) |
| Community type | ||||||||
| City | 83 | (3.1) | 84 | (3.1) | 66 | (6.0) | 72 | (3.9) |
| Suburban | 85 | (2.2) | 88 | (1.9) | 74 | (4.7) | 79 | (3.5) |
| Town | 79 | (3.5) | 80 | (3.7) | 70 | (12.3) | 71 | (5.9) |
| Rural | 79 | (2.7) | 80 | (2.9) | 56 | (9.2) | 69 | (4.2) |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 90 | (2.5) | 91 | (2.4) | 67 | (11.7) | 75 | (4.1) |
| Southeast | 83 | (2.8) | 86 | (2.6) | 79 | (6.0) | 83 | (3.5) |
| Central | 86 | (2.3) | 84 | (2.7) | 49 | (10.1) | 69 | (4.2) |
| West | 71 | (3.1) | 75 | (3.3) | 65 | (7.0) | 67 | (3.7) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities2 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 85 | (3.1) | 82 | (3.5) | 55 | (11.1) | 74 | (5.6) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 85 | (2.4) | 88 | (2.4) | 60 | (8.0) | 79 | (3.3) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 76 | (3.2) | 82 | (2.5) | 63 | (8.5) | 67 | (5.1) |
| 50 percent or more | 78 | (2.7) | 79 | (2.5) | 76 | (5.2) | 70 | (3.6) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 86 | (1.9) | 87 | (2.0) | 67 | (5.6) | 75 | (3.8) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 83 | (2.4) | 84 | (2.4) | 57 | (6.9) | 67 | (4.5) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 78 | (2.7) | 79 | (3.2) | 77 | (7.5) | 77 | (4.3) |
| 76 percent or more | 74 | (4.5) | 78 | (4.2) | 74 | (14.7) | 66 | (8.2) |
| 1 Percents for each subject area are based on the percentage of public secondary schools that offered music (90 percent), visual arts (91 percent), dance (16 percent), and drama/theatre (46 percent) during regular school hours in the 2009–10 school year. The 2009–10 survey asked about district curriculum guides during the current school year. | ||||||||
| 2 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Secondary School Arts Education Survey: Fall 2009,” FRSS 101, 2009–10. |
