| Table 84. | Percent and standard error for public secondary schools reporting that arts specialists contributed to various arts-related management decisions, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Input in arts education programs1 | Included on site-based management/ school improvement teams or leadership councils |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts curriculum offered |
Allocation of arts funds |
Hiring of arts staff |
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| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public secondary schools | 90 | (1.1) | 80 | (1.5) | 58 | (1.8) | 87 | (1.1) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||
| Less than 500 | 89 | (2.0) | 78 | (3.0) | 50 | (3.1) | 81 | (2.4) |
| 500 to 999 | 89 | (1.5) | 82 | (2.0) | 59 | (2.3) | 90 | (1.7) |
| 1,000 or more | 93 | (1.3) | 81 | (1.6) | 70 | (2.4) | 92 | (1.4) |
| Community type | ||||||||
| City | 89 | (2.2) | 78 | (2.7) | 58 | (3.3) | 89 | (2.1) |
| Suburban | 93 | (1.4) | 85 | (1.8) | 69 | (2.7) | 91 | (1.9) |
| Town | 92 | (2.3) | 78 | (3.6) | 68 | (4.2) | 84 | (3.3) |
| Rural | 88 | (2.1) | 79 | (2.9) | 47 | (3.0) | 84 | (2.3) |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 94 | (3.2) | 83 | (2.9) | 70 | (3.6) | 87 | (2.5) |
| Southeast | 82 | (2.3) | 77 | (3.4) | 43 | (3.3) | 87 | (2.2) |
| Central | 93 | (1.6) | 77 | (3.4) | 59 | (3.2) | 90 | (2.3) |
| West | 91 | (2.0) | 84 | (2.7) | 64 | (4.1) | 84 | (2.4) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities2 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 93 | (1.9) | 82 | (2.8) | 55 | (3.6) | 87 | (2.7) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 94 | (1.4) | 84 | (2.5) | 67 | (3.5) | 87 | (2.4) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 88 | (2.5) | 80 | (3.0) | 59 | (4.4) | 89 | (2.6) |
| 50 percent or more | 85 | (2.3) | 75 | (2.6) | 53 | (3.0) | 85 | (2.2) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 95 | (1.3) | 87 | (2.1) | 71 | (2.5) | 93 | (1.8) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 94 | (1.3) | 82 | (2.3) | 61 | (2.6) | 86 | (2.2) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 87 | (2.4) | 78 | (3.3) | 50 | (3.3) | 85 | (2.6) |
| 76 percent or more | 76 | (3.8) | 66 | (4.7) | 43 | (5.1) | 83 | (3.6) |
| 1 Percents are based on the 92 percent of public secondary schools that reported having an arts specialist at the school in the 2009–10 school year. | ||||||||
| 2 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||||
| NOTE: 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, “Secondary School Arts Education Survey: Fall 2009,” FRSS 101, 2009–10. |
