WE’RE BUILDING A MORE CONFIDENT GENERATION
98%
of campers reported an increase in overall confidence and an increase in their skills at an instrument or singing.
98%
of our campers collaborated with people differing in age, musical experience, music taste. gender identity.
WHEN KIDS HAVE ACCESS TO THE ARTS:
$1 SPENT ON ARTS PROGRAMMING SAVES $9 ON OTHER COSTS
STUDENTS ARE 2X AS LIKELY TO GRADUATE COLLEGE
STUDENTS ARE 5X LESS LIKELY TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL
4 OUT OF 5 STUDENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO VOTE
STUDENTS SCORE 100 POINTS HIGHER ON THEIR SAT
NEIGHBORHOODS EXPERIENCE A 5% DROP IN CRIME
94%
of campers learned to work better as a team while collaborating with people from different backgrounds.
After-school arts programs save cities money. For every $1 spent on after-school programs, $9 is saved by reducing welfare and crime costs, improving academic performance, and increasing kids’ earning potential.
The arts help people succeed. Students with limited means
who are highly engaged in the arts are more than twice as likely to graduate college than their peers with no arts education.
Students excited by school stay in school. Students with limited means who participate in the arts, both in school and after school, have a dropout rate of just 4 percent— five times lower than their peers.
The arts make young adults more civically engaged. Seventy- eight percent of young adults who had arts-rich experiences were more likely to vote or participate in a political campaign.
Students who take four years of arts and music classes average almost 100 points higher on their SAT scores than students with only a half-year or less.
Participation in after-school arts programs causes juvenile crime to fall by 4.2% on average, and slightly more (5.4%) in vulnerable areas.
Research citations for this article available via Americans for the Arts
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