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CS Courses Are On the Rise; Girls Are Half As Likely to Take Them
A higher percentage of females participate in foundational CS classes is elementary school than in middle school or high school.
Wide gaps in computer science enrollment persist despite expanded availability of CS classes in U.S. high schools, according to the 2023 State of Computer Science Education report from Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance.
Overall, 57.5% of U.S. high schools are offering foundational CS courses this year, up 4.5% over 2022, the largest increase since 2018. Yet just 5.8% of high school students are taking those courses in the 35 states where data is available, a level similar to that seen a year ago.
The report says that males are twice as likely to take foundational CS courses as females, with the number of course-enrolled high school girls hovering around 31%, the same percentage as in the last three years. Code.org proposes making CS a graduation requirement, which eight states have done so far, to help narrow the gap.
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