Percent and standard error for public elementary 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

Table 30.	Percent and standard error for public elementary 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
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

All public elementary school music and visual arts specialists	94	(0.6)	95	(0.5)	90	(1.0)	92	(1.0)

Enrollment size
Less than 300	91	(2.2)	93	(1.8)	93	(2.4)	94	(1.9)
300 to 499	96	(1.0)	95	(0.8)	88	(1.8)	91	(1.7)
500 or more	94	(0.9)	96	(0.8)	90	(1.5)	91	(1.5)
Community type
City	94	(1.1)	94	(1.3)	87	(2.0)	89	(2.2)
Suburban	96	(1.0)	98	(0.6)	92	(1.8)	94	(1.7)
Town	93	(1.9)	92	(2.4)	86	(3.7)	86	(4.1)
Rural	92	(1.7)	94	(1.3)	91	(1.7)	94	(1.7)
Region
Northeast	95	(1.8)	98	(0.9)	93	(1.8)	95	(1.4)
Southeast	96	(1.2)	98	(0.8)	93	(1.5)	95	(1.7)
Central	97	(0.9)	97	(1.0)	93	(1.8)	95	(1.4)
West	90	(1.7)	88	(1.8)	73	(4.4)	76	(3.8)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities¹
Less than 6 percent	92	(2.3)	97	(1.7)	93	(1.9)	93	(2.2)
6 to 20 percent	96	(1.1)	96	(1.0)	92	(1.8)	92	(2.3)
21 to 49 percent	95	(1.3)	93	(1.4)	88	(2.4)	93	(2.0)
50 percent or more	94	(1.1)	95	(1.1)	87	(2.4)	89	(1.9)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	96	(1.3)	95	(1.1)	93	(1.8)	92	(1.8)
26 to 50 percent	93	(1.6)	95	(1.2)	90	(2.2)	94	(1.7)
51 to 75 percent	94	(1.5)	96	(1.1)	87	(2.2)	89	(2.4)
76 percent or more	95	(1.4)	95	(1.4)	89	(2.8)	91	(2.3)

¹ 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 Elementary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 102M, 2009–10; and “Survey of Elementary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 102VA, 2009–10.