The percentage of schools with one-half or less of students participating in a music class in the formal timetable varies slightly between the provinces and regions: • 7% in Alberta and the four Atlantic provinces • 11% in Quebec • 13% in British Columbia • 17% in Ontario 22 • 18% in Saskatchewan and Manitoba (grouped together because of the small sample size for each province at the elementary le [...] There are, however, some regional differences in the availability of music opportunities in elementary schools: • In British Columbia, elementary schools offer an average of 4.5 music opportunities to their students, the second-highest average among six regions of the country. [...] In addition, jazz is offered in 29% of Quebec schools and 44% of all Canadian secondary schools, while musical theatre is offered in only 16% of Quebec secondary schools (compared with the Canadian average of 27% of secondary schools). [...] Lower down the list in terms of prevalence, two other forms of music education are much less common in Quebec than in the rest of Canada: exploring the historical, social, cultural and/or economic aspects of music (40% in Quebec vs. [...] Ontario has the highest proportion of 33 elementary schools with music taught by general classroom teachers and also the lowest proportion of elementary schools with a specialist music teacher: • In 58% of Ontario elementary schools, music is taught by general classroom teachers with no music background.