Learning through the fine arts possesses many benefits, yet efforts to address the arts within public schools, particularly rural schools, are insufficient. In an effort to support rural public schools in Texas, Window On a Wider World (WOWW) began providing fine arts enriched education programming in 2006 to area partner schools that serve students at the elementary grade levels. The purpose of the current study was to explore the impact of WOWW's fine arts enriched education programming on student academic achievement with state-mandated standardized assessments, as well as campus attendance rates. This study employed an ex-post facto, causal-comparative quantitative research design to analyze mean differences between WOWW partner schools and non-WOWW partner schools. Data were collected from

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