Percent and standard error for public secondary school visual arts specialists reporting that they gave moderate or major emphasis to various goals or objectives of student learning, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (<a href='table

Table 122.	Percent and standard error for public secondary school visual arts specialists reporting that they gave moderate or major emphasis to various goals or objectives of student learning, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (Return to Table 122)

School characteristic	Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others		Making connections among visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts		Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures		Using technology to gain knowledge and skills in visual arts
School characteristic	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

All public secondary school visual arts specialists	89	(1.1)	79	(1.5)	83	(1.3)	64	(1.6)

Enrollment size
Less than 500	84	(2.5)	79	(2.9)	79	(2.9)	63	(3.6)
500 to 999	87	(2.1)	78	(2.7)	82	(2.4)	58	(2.5)
1,000 or more	92	(1.4)	81	(2.1)	87	(2.0)	68	(2.5)
Community type
City	93	(1.5)	83	(2.1)	86	(2.4)	63	(2.7)
Suburban	90	(1.8)	84	(2.1)	87	(1.9)	71	(3.1)
Town	85	(3.0)	69	(4.3)	81	(3.1)	51	(3.8)
Rural	85	(2.4)	77	(2.8)	78	(2.9)	61	(3.1)
Region
Northeast	95	(1.5)	85	(3.0)	86	(2.3)	70	(3.9)
Southeast	86	(2.7)	81	(2.8)	86	(2.2)	66	(3.1)
Central	86	(2.0)	75	(3.0)	83	(2.5)	59	(3.3)
West	87	(2.2)	77	(2.9)	80	(2.9)	61	(3.0)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities²
Less than 6 percent	88	(2.5)	75	(3.7)	80	(2.9)	59	(4.0)
6 to 20 percent	89	(1.7)	80	(2.8)	81	(2.6)	64	(2.8)
21 to 49 percent	87	(2.5)	74	(2.9)	82	(2.9)	69	(3.0)
50 percent or more	89	(1.7)	87	(1.7)	90	(1.8)	64	(2.8)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	91	(1.8)	83	(2.6)	87	(2.0)	71	(2.6)
26 to 50 percent	89	(2.0)	76	(2.6)	80	(2.3)	63	(2.8)
51 to 75 percent	84	(2.7)	78	(3.7)	82	(3.2)	56	(3.5)
76 percent or more	87	(3.7)	82	(3.4)	85	(3.8)	53	(5.4)

¹Rounds to 100 percent.
²Other 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.