Among public secondary schools that offered instruction in the arts, percent and standard error for reporting a district-level arts coordinator, various ways that arts programs and instruction were assessed at the school, and the inclusion of arts education in mission statements or school improvement plans, by school characteristics: School year 1999

Table 163.	Among public secondary schools that offered instruction in the arts, percent and standard error for reporting a district-level arts coordinator, various ways that arts programs and instruction were assessed at the school, and the inclusion of arts education in mission statements or school improvement plans, by school characteristics: School year 1999–2000

School characteristic	District has specialist or coordinator who is responsible for the arts programs offered		Principal evaluates the arts program in the same way other programs are evaluated		School conducts standardized assessment of student achievement in the arts		Arts education is included in mission statements or school improvement plans
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error
All public secondary schools	53	(1.9)	92	(1.2)	24	(2.0)	65	(2.1)

Enrollment size
Less than 500	42	(4.1)	91	(2.2)	23	(3.5)	67	(3.5)
500 to 999	55	(3.0)	94	(1.6)	24	(2.8)	62	(3.1)
1,000 or more	68	(3.0)	93	(1.6)	23	(2.5)	65	(3.1)
Region
Northeast	64	(5.5)	95	(2.3)	26	(4.5)	81	(3.4)
Southeast	55	(4.4)	91	(2.7)	22	(3.3)	61	(4.5)
Central	49	(3.9)	94	(1.9)	23	(3.3)	63	(4.1)
West	50	(3.9)	90	(2.7)	23	(3.3)	60	(3.9)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities¹
Less than 6 percent	46	(4.1)	92	(2.0)	21	(3.4)	62	(4.1)
6 to 20 percent	53	(4.3)	94	(2.2)	20	(3.7)	63	(3.8)
21 to 49 percent	60	(4.8)	90	(2.9)	30	(4.0)	66	(4.1)
50 percent or more	60	(3.9)	93	(2.8)	25	(3.7)	67	(3.8)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	54	(3.0)	94	(1.3)	22	(2.5)	66	(3.1)
26 to 50 percent	51	(4.3)	91	(2.1)	24	(3.7)	62	(3.7)
51 to 75 percent	49	(5.2)	92	(3.2)	24	(5.0)	66	(4.3)
76 percent or more	67	(9.1)	84	(7.5)	29	(8.2)	62	(9.2)

† Not applicable.
‡ Reporting standards not met.
¹Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native students.
NOTE:Percents are based on the 98 percent of public secondary schools that offered arts instruction in the 1999–2000 school year. The data presented in this table may differ from previously published information because missing data from the 1999–2000 surveys were imputed for analysis in this report.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Secondary School Arts Education Survey: Fall 1999,” FRSS 67S, 1999–2000.