School District Data

The Arts Education Partnership, in Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons from School Districts that Value Education (1999), identifies five critical success factors that must be in place to implement and sustain comprehensive arts education: a board-adopted arts education policy and plan, a district-level arts coordinator, use of general budget funds to support arts education and a student to arts teacher ratio no higher than 400:1. Periodically Arts for All tracks Los Angeles County school districts’ progress in meeting these factors of sound arts education infrastructure in Arts Education Performance Indicators (AEPI) reports.

AEPI reports on that progress have been released in 2003, 2005 and 2008.

The AEPI of 2008 reports that school districts’ responses from both 2005 and 2008 show an increase in arts education infrastructure across the County. The next AEPI is due to be released in 2011.