California Arts Education Data Project

Create CA and the Arts Education Data Project developed these interactive dashboards to track arts education teachers and student participation in the arts. This data can help parents and community members contextualize their arts education advocacy efforts and assist school leaders in their arts planning efforts by helping them identify gaps in arts offerings.

California Full Time Equivalent Arts Educators Dashboard

This interactive dashboard shows the number of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) arts education teachers by school level, district, county, and statewide.

Local educational agencies (LEAs) report this data to the California Department of Education (CDE) through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS). Please note that itinerant arts education programs (i.e., traveling teachers coordinated by a school district) reporting varies by LEA; some LEAs report their itinerant FTEs at the District level data, and other LEAs report their itinerant FTEs at the school level.

Data Source: Classroom-based teaching assignments and FTE submitted and certified by LEAs and/or charter schools as part of the annual CALPADS Fall 2 submission and assignment monitoring outcome data determined during the annual assignment monitoring process conducted by the CTC through CalSAAS.

Prop 28 provides a minimum source for annual funding to supplement (i.e., expand) arts education programs for students attending PK-12 public and charter schools. Please reach out to your school board members today to let them know about Prop 28 and help students get equitable arts education programming.

Arts Participation and Course Offerings Dashboard

On this interactive, color-coded dashboard, you can view arts participation for secondary students by school level, district, county, and statewide.

The most recent data available is for the 2018/19 school year because the California Department of Education still needs to release updated data. The dashboard does not include information on grades PK–5, as California elementary schools are not required to report arts education data.

Data Source: California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System – California’s K–12 longitudinal data system and the Common Core of Data file from the National Center for Education Statistics.