Percent and standard error for public secondary school visual arts specialists reporting that they believed various types of support for teaching visual arts were moderately or completely adequate, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (<a href='table

Table 113.	Percent and standard error for public secondary school visual arts specialists reporting that they believed various types of support for teaching visual arts were moderately or completely adequate, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (Return to Table 113)

School characteristic	Instructional resources¹		Art materials²		Art tools³		Classroom equipment⁴		Technologies⁵
School characteristic	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

All public secondary school visual arts specialists	70	(1.6)	77	(1.2)	75	(1.4)	65	(1.3)	52	(1.5)

Enrollment size
Less than 500	66	(3.1)	80	(2.6)	74	(2.7)	63	(2.9)	50	(3.7)
500 to 999	72	(2.6)	77	(2.3)	75	(2.6)	67	(2.6)	51	(2.6)
1,000 or more	71	(2.2)	75	(2.2)	76	(2.1)	66	(2.4)	53	(2.1)
Community type
City	68	(3.2)	66	(3.1)	66	(3.2)	55	(3.4)	46	(3.2)
Suburban	76	(2.6)	80	(2.4)	80	(2.5)	73	(2.9)	61	(2.3)
Town	66	(3.9)	84	(3.0)	83	(3.1)	70	(3.8)	43	(3.1)
Rural	66	(3.1)	77	(2.5)	72	(2.8)	62	(2.2)	50	(3.3)
Region
Northeast	72	(3.3)	83	(2.6)	84	(2.5)	74	(2.9)	56	(3.8)
Southeast	75	(2.4)	74	(2.3)	72	(2.8)	61	(3.4)	53	(3.1)
Central	68	(3.3)	79	(2.5)	76	(2.5)	68	(2.5)	50	(3.3)
West	66	(2.7)	70	(3.0)	68	(3.3)	58	(2.9)	49	(2.9)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities⁶
Less than 6 percent	69	(4.0)	81	(3.0)	78	(3.2)	69	(3.5)	50	(3.9)
6 to 20 percent	71	(3.1)	82	(2.5)	78	(2.9)	73	(2.5)	52	(3.2)
21 to 49 percent	74	(3.0)	78	(3.0)	79	(2.9)	64	(3.9)	57	(3.8)
50 percent or more	67	(3.1)	67	(3.1)	66	(3.4)	55	(3.2)	48	(3.5)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	78	(2.6)	84	(1.9)	82	(2.6)	73	(2.5)	57	(3.0)
26 to 50 percent	68	(2.4)	76	(2.2)	74	(2.7)	66	(2.7)	52	(3.1)
51 to 75 percent	63	(3.8)	69	(3.6)	69	(3.9)	56	(4.1)	48	(4.0)
76 percent or more	61	(4.6)	67	(4.8)	64	(4.7)	52	(6.0)	36	(4.4)

¹The questionnaire wording was “reusable resources used for instruction in visual arts (e.g., art prints, slides, textbooks, videotapes, projectors).”
²The questionnaire wording was “expendable resources (e.g., paint, ink, clay, paper, cardboard, film, wood, plastic films).”
³The questionnaire wording was “equipment used to create and learn about visual arts (e.g., brushes, scissors, brayers, clay tools).”
⁴ The questionnaire wording was “equipment used to create and learn about visual arts (e.g., cameras, kilns, display cases and boards, easels).”
⁵The questionnaire wording was “electronic equipment used in the study and creation of art (e.g., SMART Boards, computers, printers, video equipment).”
⁶Other 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 Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 103VA, 2009–10.