The data in this report was reported by individual schools to departments of education and represents 30,633 schools in 7,015 districts from 17 states, representing 18 million students or 36% of the total K-12 student population in the United States for the 2018/2019 school year. States included are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. 

Additionally, national projections were calculated for the number of students and the number of schools that do not provide access to any arts or music education. National projections are based on a mathematical weight applied to the NCES list of schools from states not included in the list above to calculate the number of students and schools without access to either arts or music education.