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| Table 97. | Percent and standard error for secondary school music and visual arts specialists reporting that they held an undergraduate or graduate degree or teaching certificate in the arts subject they taught, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Music specialist | Visual arts specialist | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in music or music education |
Teaching certificate in music education |
Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in arts education or applied/fine arts |
Teaching certificate in arts education |
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| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public secondary school music and visual arts specialists | 98 | (0.5) | 98 | (0.4) | 94 | (0.8) | 94 | (0.9) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||
| Less than 500 | 98 | (0.9) | 99 | (0.5) | 93 | (1.7) | 91 | (2.2) |
| 500 to 999 | 98 | (1.1) | 97 | (0.9) | 94 | (1.5) | 96 | (1.2) |
| 1,000 or more | 98 | (0.8) | 98 | (0.8) | 95 | (1.3) | 95 | (1.2) |
| Community type | ||||||||
| City | 96 | (1.5) | 96 | (1.2) | 95 | (1.8) | 92 | (2.3) |
| Suburban | 1001 | (0.3) | 98 | (0.8) | 94 | (1.5) | 95 | (1.4) |
| Town | 98 | (1.3) | 98 | (1.0) | 95 | (1.6) | 96 | (1.6) |
| Rural | 98 | (0.8) | 99 | (0.5) | 93 | (1.5) | 94 | (1.7) |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 100 | (†) | 99 | (0.7) | 97 | (1.5) | 97 | (1.1) |
| Southeast | 98 | (0.8) | 97 | (1.1) | 96 | (1.6) | 96 | (1.4) |
| Central | 98 | (0.7) | 99 | (0.6) | 95 | (1.3) | 99 | (0.7) |
| West | 96 | (1.4) | 96 | (1.2) | 89 | (2.3) | 85 | (2.9) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities2 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 98 | (0.9) | 1001 | (0.3) | 97 | (1.0) | 97 | (1.3) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 97 | (1.0) | 99 | (0.6) | 94 | (1.5) | 94 | (1.8) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 99 | (0.5) | 97 | (0.9) | 93 | (1.9) | 92 | (2.4) |
| 50 percent or more | 97 | (1.4) | 95 | (1.3) | 93 | (1.5) | 94 | (1.7) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 98 | (0.8) | 99 | (0.6) | 97 | (1.1) | 96 | (1.4) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 99 | (0.8) | 98 | (0.7) | 93 | (1.4) | 94 | (1.6) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 96 | (2.0) | 96 | (1.4) | 90 | (2.2) | 93 | (1.7) |
| 76 percent or more | 98 | (1.7) | 99 | (1.0) | 96 | (1.8) | 93 | (3.3) |
| † Not applicable. | ||||||||
| 1 Rounds to 100 percent. | ||||||||
| 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, “Survey of Secondary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 103M, 2009–10; and “Survey of Secondary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 103VA, 2009–10. |
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