Arts For Learning NW

The numbers are in. And they're remarkable.

A landmark study tracked more than 22,000 students over 12 years. The finding? Students with high arts involvement were five times more likely to graduate high school than their peers with low arts involvement.

Five times. Not a rounding error. Not a footnote.

At Arts for Learning NW, we see this every day — in the teaching artist who makes a student feel seen for the first time, in the residency that keeps a disengaged kid coming back to school, in the program that gives a child a reason to picture their own future.

The research backs what we know to be true: arts education isn't enrichment. It's infrastructure.

📊 Source: The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth, National Endowment for the Arts (Catterall, Dumais & Hampden-Thompson, 2012)