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

• Certification level of teachers providing arts education.
• Non-salary budgets allocated for arts education.
• Use of visiting artists, field trips and artists-in-residence.
• Professional development offerings to arts and general classroom teachers.
• Arts education policies, such as adoption of standards, high school graduation
requirements in the arts, student assessment in the arts, etc.
Response Rate
A total of 542 schools completed the Status Survey, representing at least one school from 303
school districts and 13 community schools. The response rate for the survey was 16 percent.
Compared to other states that have conducted similar studies, the response rate was slightly below
average, but adequate for generalizations, according to
Quadrant Arts Education Research (2012). Furthermore, the
data from EMIS, which includes all schools and districts in
the state, reinforced many of the survey findings.
Survey respondents serve approximately 295,000 of the total
1.8 million Ohio K-12 students.
Throughout the survey, “school type” was defined as
elementary school (any school with one or more grades in
the K-5 range); middle school (any school with one or more
The response rate for the
2010 Status Survey was 16
percent. The 542 Ohio public
schools that responded
represented 303 of Ohio’s
612 school districts and 13
community schools.
grades in the 6-8 range); and high school (any school with one or more grades in the 9-12 range).
School buildings serving broader grade spans, such as K-8 or 7-12 schools, were counted as
multiple school types. Based on those definitions, most of the schools participating in the Status
Survey were elementary schools (64 percent), followed by middle schools (46 percent), and high
schools (24 percent).
Table 17: Type and Size of Schools Responding to the Status Survey
School Type
Minimum Number
of Students
Maximum Number
of Students
Median Number of
Students
Elementary
90 2,713 412
(n=347, 64% of schools)
Middle
60 2,713 454
(n=246, 46 % of schools)
High
60 4,066 640
(n=131, 24% of schools)
Schools serving wider grade spans than shown in Column 1 are counted multiple times.
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