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

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
School characteristic	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
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
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.
²Other 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.