Percent and standard error for public secondary school music and visual arts specialists reporting more than 4 hours of designated planning time per week when students were in attendance, by teaching status and school characteristics: School year 2009

NCES 2012-014rev
April 2012

Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 1999–2000 and 2009–10

Table 108.	Percent and standard error for public secondary school music and visual arts specialists reporting more than 4 hours of designated planning time per week when students were in attendance, by teaching status and school characteristics: School year 2009–10

School characteristic	Music specialist						Visual arts specialist
	All music specialists		Taught music full time		Taught music part time		All visual arts specialists		Taught visual arts full time		Taught visual arts part time
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

All public secondary school music and visual arts specialists	61	(1.4)	62	(1.4)	47	(7.4)	62	(1.8)	64	(1.7)	48	(7.4)

Enrollment size
Less than 500	55	(3.3)	55	(3.5)	50	(13.3)	53	(3.3)	57	(3.2)	41	(9.0)
500 to 999	60	(2.8)	61	(3.1)	46	(12.6)	58	(2.9)	59	(3.0)	48	(12.1)
1,000 or more	68	(2.2)	70	(2.3)	46	(12.5)	71	(2.3)	72	(2.3)	62	(12.7)
Community type
City	55	(3.8)	58	(3.9)	26!	(11.7)	66	(3.1)	67	(3.2)	58	(11.0)
Suburban	64	(2.9)	65	(2.8)	58	(12.7)	65	(2.9)	66	(3.5)	61	(17.5)
Town	63	(3.9)	65	(4.4)	40!	(16.9)	60	(4.2)	63	(4.2)	42!	(14.0)
Rural	62	(3.1)	62	(3.1)	57	(14.3)	57	(3.1)	61	(3.5)	37	(9.2)
Region
Northeast	56	(3.9)	57	(4.2)	39!	(12.5)	59	(4.1)	60	(4.4)	51!	(16.1)
Southeast	68	(3.4)	68	(3.6)	54	(14.5)	73	(3.3)	73	(3.3)	67	(15.8)
Central	59	(3.9)	59	(3.9)	46!	(18.6)	57	(2.8)	59	(2.8)	47	(11.5)
West	64	(2.9)	66	(3.0)	50	(10.3)	64	(3.3)	68	(3.0)	42	(9.5)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities¹
Less than 6 percent	55	(4.2)	55	(4.3)	45!	(19.7)	54	(3.6)	56	(3.8)	42	(11.3)
6 to 20 percent	63	(3.0)	63	(3.2)	56	(14.6)	57	(3.4)	60	(3.5)	33	(9.5)
21 to 49 percent	67	(2.5)	69	(2.8)	48	(10.0)	71	(3.4)	71	(3.5)	71	(10.3)
50 percent or more	61	(3.1)	62	(2.7)	42!	(16.2)	68	(2.7)	69	(2.8)	55!	(17.2)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	67	(2.7)	69	(2.9)	41!	(10.7)	63	(2.7)	66	(2.6)	39	(11.1)
26 to 50 percent	61	(2.7)	61	(2.9)	55	(10.7)	58	(3.4)	59	(3.3)	55	(13.7)
51 to 75 percent	57	(3.2)	58	(3.4)	41!	(14.6)	67	(3.6)	70	(3.7)	48	(11.0)
76 percent or more	52	(4.5)	52	(4.8)	65!	(31.3)	67	(4.0)	67	(4.0)	58!	(19.1)

! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent.

¹Other 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.