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1. Nearly 80 percent of high-arts youth report mostly As or Bs in English, in contrast to about 64 percent of low-arts youth. 2. About two-thirds of high-arts students scored in the top half of composite standardized test performance. 3. Only 43 percent of low-arts students made it into the top half of the test performance distribution. 4. Although dropping out of school is relatively infrequent between grades 8 and 10, 1.4 percent of students with high-arts involvement as of grade 8 dropped out over the subsequent 2 years; the dropout rate was four times higher for low-arts students. 5. Nearly 75 percent of high-arts 10th graders scored in the top half of the composite (verbal and math skills combined) test score distribution. 6. Only 45 percent of the low-arts youth met this standard. 7. About two-thirds of the high-arts students scored in the top half of the reading performance distribution for 10th graders. 8. Only 43 percent of low arts students met the reading performance standards. 9. In tests of History, Citizenship, and Geography, about 71 percent of high-arts students scored in the top half of the performance distribution on the test. 10. Only 46% of low-arts students scored in the top half percentile. 11. 86% of low-arts students rarely engage in community service activities. 12. More than 1/3 of high-arts youth perform community service activities frequently.