Arts Course Taking
This dataset contains the number and percentage of Massachusetts public school students completing at least one arts course in grades K-12 since 2018. Arts courses are reported in the Student Course Schedule (SCS) system and align with the <a href="https://www.doe.mass.edu/instruction/arts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework</a>. For a full list of courses and subjects, see the <a href="https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/help/ArtsCourseLookup.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arts Course List</a>.
Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the arts course list was updated the "Media Arts" category. In addition, a number of arts courses were reclassified from the "General Arts" category to "Visual Arts" to more closely align to the industry standard. Since 2022, courses are no longer assigned to the "General" category.
Economically Disadvantaged was used 2015-2021. Low Income was used prior to 2015, and a different version of Low Income has been used since 2022. Please see the <a href="https://www.doe.mass.edu/research/researchers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DESE Researcher's Guide</a> for more information.
This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:
<a href="https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/artcourse.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arts Coursetaking Report</a>
Querying over HTTP
Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on
this data to power Web applications. For example:
curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
SELECT *
FROM \"educationtocareer-data-mass-gov/arts-course-taking-w3f3-phkq\".\"arts_course_taking\"
LIMIT 100
"}
EOFSee the Splitgraph documentation
for more information.
