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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.
2:24:16
Is this what school year is that?
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.
2:24:19
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