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THE ARTS IN CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
District-wide
Distribution of
Staffing
The CPS Arts Education Plan states: “Critical to successful implementation
of the Plan will be the equitable allocation of arts teachers across CPS,
to ensure that every child benefits from a certified and/or endorsed arts
teacher’s instruction.” As the graphic below and the map on the next page
show, CPS has made great strides toward achieving that goal.
While the staffing situation varied from one administrative network to
the next, the overall arts staffing ratio in every single network in CPS was
better than the 1:350 goal laid out in the CPS Arts Education Plan. Even the
networks whose schools are struggling the most to provide adequate arts
staffing showed great progress. While, overall, 36 percent of elementary
schools and 10 percent of high schools were not yet meeting the arts
staffing goal, in no network did even one quarter of reporting schools
rate below Strong or Excelling on the measure of arts staffing.
STAFFING SCORES BY NETWORK 22
 1:350 ratio or better
 0 arts FTE
76%
68%
61%
69%
Network 1
45 schools
Network 5
34 schools
Network 9
28 schools
Network 13
35 schools
  1 arts FTE, did not meet ratio
 Incomplete data
91% Network 2
70% Network 6
57%
66%
73%
32 schools
67%
30 schools
Network 10
35 schools
Charter &
Contract
105
schools
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INGENUITY | STATE OF THE ARTS
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  0.5 arts FTE, did not meet ratio
Network 3
26 schools
Network 7
30 schools
67% Network 11
57% Options
42 schools
30 schools
70% Network 4
64% Network 8
33 schools
28 schools
75% Network 12
70% Other 23
36 schools
84 schools
Percentages indicate the share of schools in that network with an instructor-to-student ratio of 1:350
or better.
“Other” includes schools that are part of one of the following non-geographical networks: ISP, AUSL,
or Service Leadership Academies.