Virginia's Arts Education Data Project

All Virginia students deserve access to a quality arts education that will help develop important skills to be successful in today's creative workforce. Arts education (defined in Virginia as dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts) is included as part of Virginia's public school curriculum. 

Because we know the arts play an important role in developing the skills necessary in the Profile of a Virginia Graduate, several organizations in the Commonwealth have partnered to provide Virginians with access to interactive data dashboards that highlight student enrollment data and longitudinal trends in arts education access and participation. These organizations include the Virginia Coalition for Fine Arts Education, Virginia Department of Education, and the Virginia Commission of the Arts. Through this partnership,  data that is collected from VLDS and sent to the Virginia Department of Education has been transformed into a public-facing, interactive dashboard enabling all to see arts education course offerings and student enrollment in Virginia's schools.