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

ANALYSIS: HOW DOES OHIO COMPARE TO A NATIONAL SAMPLE?
Overall access to the arts in Ohio’s public schools reflects access nationally.
Ninety-three percent of all public schools in Ohio offer access to some form of instruction in the
arts—the same percentage resulting from analysis of a national sample by the National Center for
Education Statistics. (See page 17 for information about the NCES study.)
Ohio’s public schools compare favorably to the national sample in offering access
to music and visual arts instruction.
Comparing ODE data to the NCES sample indicates that the percentage of Ohio’s public schools
providing access to music and visual arts instruction was slightly higher than the national average
for the same period studied. (See Figure 8.)
More than 80 percent of traditional public schools in Ohio offer courses in both music and the
visual arts, and 87 percent of Ohio’s school districts provide a sequence of instruction in at least
one of those disciplines spanning kindergarten through grade 12.
Figure 8: Access to Music and Visual Arts—National Sample Compared to Ohio Survey
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Source for National Data: NCES 2012-14.
*NCES did not provide an aggregate percentage. The statement that 93 percent of schools in
the national sample offered access to at least one art form comes from averaging the
percentages of elementary (K-8) and high schools reporting access to music. (The percentage
of schools offering music was higher than any of the other arts disciplines.)
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