Ingenuity State of the Arts Progress Report 2015-2016 | Page 44

ACCESS TO ARTS INSTRUCTION
91 %
87 %
78 %
86 %

the arts in CPS

INSTRUCTIONAL MINUTES AND ACCESS

ACCESS TO ARTS INSTRUCTION

Beyond understanding the number of instructional minutes that elementary students receive , it is important to ask what share of students have access to these minutes . The Survey this year shows that access to instruction remains high throughout the district , as has been the case for all four survey years . In 2015-16 , across all grade levels , elementary schools provided access to arts education to an estimated 97 percent of their students . This level of access is the direct result of the fact that 86 percent of schools excelled by offering arts classes to all grade levels , while another six percent were categorized as Strong , offering access to 80-99 percent of students . The final two categories , Developing and Emerging , include schools that offer access to 50-79 percent and less than half of their students , respectively . In 2015-16 , only 9 percent of schools were in one of these lower two categories .
2012-13 317 SCHOOLS

91 %

2014-15 443 SCHOOLS

87 %

100 % 17 OF STUDENTS
50-79 % OF STUDENTS
2013-14 462 SCHOOLS

78 %

2015-16 451 SCHOOLS

86 %

80-99 % OF STUDENTS
49 % OR LESS OF STUDENTS
The high rate of access to arts education for CPS elementary schools continued in 2015-16
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