The Status of Arts Education in Ohio's Public ... - Ohio Arts Council

3. Access to gifted education services in the arts also was limited:
• Forty-two percent of schools reported that they identified students gifted in the
visual and performing arts.
• Of the 19,771 students identified as gifted, 1,048 received gifted education services.
4. Many of the conditions that facilitate high-quality arts instruction were widely present
in Ohio’s schools in 2009-2010
• Eighty-three percent of Ohio arts educators were licensed in the disciplines they
taught.
• Ninety percent of public schools reported implementing Ohio’s arts learning
standards and 94 percent reported assessing their students in the arts.
• Sixty-four percent of schools provided teacher professional development in the arts.
5. Use of dedicated facilities and equipment for arts instruction varied by arts discipline
and increased in both the middle school and high school levels.
6. Seventy-eight percent of schools reported that no one at the district level was
responsible for implementing and evaluating arts programs.
7. Student enrollment in the arts dropped sharply in high school. Median high school
arts enrollment was below 30 percent in 2009-2010.
8. Student enrollment in the arts varied across district types. Students in high-income
districts participated at lower rates than those in high-poverty districts.
Each subsection concludes with a comparison of the Ohio results with those presented in
Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 1999-2000 and 2009-10, a
report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
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Courtesy (clockwise from top left): Jazz Arts Group of Columbus, Arts
Learning Residency; Michelle Pajak-Reynolds, Arts Learning Residency;
Cleveland Municipal School District