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Consisting of public, private, and charter PreK-12 schools (elementary, middle/junior, high school, combined grades) that offer dance education to their students as in-school classes, often part of the arts curriculum or offered as part of their physical education program. In some districts dance is offered in the drill or dance team programs that perform for sporting events.

Dance studios and academies that are primarily educational organizations; may produce recitals but are not primarily presenting organizations. Many are privately-owned small businesses in which dance is taught to students, usually age 2-adult, in a variety of genres. Dance studios may serve students whose interests are recreational (that is, not having professional dance ambitions), competitive (that is, participating in dance competitions, regardless of professional ambitions), or pre-professional (that is, training for a professional dance career as a performer, teacher, or choreographer).

Dance education departments of performing arts organizations (e.g. San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey), community center organizations that offer dance programs (e.g. YMCA), and dance service organizations (e.g. DanceUSA, Dance Heritage Coalition). This includes local and nationally-recognized presenting or performing organizations, such as theatre houses, professional dance companies, and cultural institutions.

Colleges and universities that offer associate, bachelors, or masters degrees, or dance minors in dance or dance education, as well as any type of conservatory program that caters to the post-high school student.