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community
partnerships
Arts partners are diverse not only in their arts
disciplines and programs offered, but also in
their size and capacity to partner with CPS
schools. Just over half of active arts partners in
2015-16 reported working with a single CPS
school, in most cases offering more than one
program type for that school.20 Another 28

In 2015-16, 10 of the 579 active arts
partners provided more than 30% of
all reported partnerships.

percent worked with 2-5 schools and just over
3 percent worked with 40 or more schools.
This distribution has remained constant across
all school years, even with slight variations in
the number of active partners.

As was the case in years past, there were a
small number of community arts partners
that provided a sizable portion of reported
partnerships. Significantly, in 2015-16, 10 of
the 579 active arts partners provided more
than 30 percent of all reported partnerships.
These 10 partners each worked with more
than 90 schools, again offering more than one
program type for each of those schools.
The type of programming that partners
offer, and perhaps also the nature of the
relationship between schools and partners,
can be quite different when partners are
focused on a single school than when they
are working with multiple schools. Comparing
the partners that worked with a single school
to the 10 partners that provided more than 30
percent of reported partnerships highlights
this difference. Partners that work with a
single school are much less likely than the
more prolific partners to offer field trips and

The Survey collects data on program type offered, not number of programs in total. For example, a partner may conduct multiple field trips for a single school; in this analysis,
those multiple field trips will be counted as a single program type.
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