Ingenuity State of the Arts Progress Report 2015-2016 | Page 28
the arts in CPS
CREATIVE SCHOOLS CERTIFICATION
A CLOSER LOOK AT CHANGE OVER TIME
Collecting data in the same school district for
four consecutive years offers the opportunity
to explore how change happens, not only
at the district level, but within individual
schools. Looking at the data in this way
makes clear that, notwithstanding the overall
positive trends in the district, changes in
Certification scores don’t come easily. A
continued investment in and attention paid
to the arts—especially in those schools that
53%
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41%
unchanged
unchanged
HIGH SCHOOLS
103 SCHOOLS
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
417 SCHOOLS
have not shown growth—will be essential to
achieving the goal of bringing the arts to all
of CPS’ students.
Of the 580 schools that completed the Survey
in 2015-16, 520 (nearly 80 percent of the
district) also completed surveys in each of
the previous two years. In nearly 44 percent
of these schools, the certification score has
not changed at all over that three-year span.
This “stickiness” is even more evident in
high schools, which are less likely to receive
a rating of Strong or Excelling, than it is in
elementary schools. In 53 percent of the 103
high schools for which three years of data
exist, the school’s category has not changed.
The comparable number for elementary
schools is 41 percent.