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Compliance percentages of NYC public schools with state arts education requirements
2:22:40
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Paul Thompson provides detailed statistics on the percentage of NYC public schools meeting state arts education requirements across different grade levels for the 2023-2024 school year.
- Elementary school (grades 1-5): 92.5% offer at least one arts discipline per grade, but only 24.4% offer all four disciplines to each grade.
- 6th grade: 95.1% of schools offer at least one discipline, but only 10.1% offer all four disciplines.
- 7th and 8th grade: 91.2% of 8th graders received the required two half units in arts instruction, but only 31.1% did so in two different disciplines.
- High school: 99.8% of graduates met the state-mandated arts instruction requirement.
Rita Joseph
2:22:40
I'm sure that the arts community will be very happy.
2:22:45
In compliance, what percentage of New York City public schools currently meet the state's arts education by grades one to three, four to six, seven to eight, and nine to 12.
Dr. Jacqueline Cofield
2:23:10
Yes.
Paul Thompson
2:23:16
So in elementary school right now, grades one through five, we have 92.5% of school servings, grades one through five offer at least one arts discipline per grade.
2:23:28
However, 24.4% of those schools offered all four disciplines to each grade.
2:23:34
In sixth grade, 95.1% of schools offered at least one discipline but only 10.1% offered all four disciplines at that grade.
2:23:44
Again, we get into the reality of seven and eight.
2:23:49
90 one point two of eighth graders received the required two half units in arts instructions, but only 31.1 did so with two different disciplines.
2:24:00
Additionally, only 21% of schools met this benchmark for 90 or more of their students.
2:24:07
High school, 99.8% of high school graduates met the state mandated arts instruction requirement.
Rita Joseph
2:24:16
Is this what school year is that?
Paul Thompson
2:24:19
This is this is 2324.