Women/Men Relative Strength CS Education Metrics Dashboards 2021

The women/men relative strength CS education metrics for 2021 originally described in the post Women in HS CS: Just get them in the door! are re-VISIONed using Tableau below. All of these statistics are based on data provided in the 2021 State of CS Education report published by Code.org, CSTA, and the ECEP Alliance and data on the 2021 AP CS exams from Barbara Ericson’s Computing for Everyone blog.

Note that the metrics previously published on the 2020-21 school year used combined AP CS exam data from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years. However, as AP data for 2020-21 became available in Fall 2022, these re-VISIONS use this cleaner and better synchronized data. Although using the 2021 AP results affect the metrics reported in the post Women in HS CS: Just get them in the door!, they do not affect the overall conclusions.

This blog post focuses on the following metrics:

Metric	2021 Nat Avg	Interpretation
Women/Men Relative Strength CS School Attendance	100% (estimate)	Women are just as likely as men to attend a high school with a CS course
Women/Men Relative Strength CS Uptake Ratio	47.3%	Women are 52.7% less likely than men to enroll in a CS course in schools that offer CS. Data available for 37 states.
Women/Men Relative Strength AP/CS Uptake Ratio	98.4%	Of students enrolled in an CS course, Women are 1.6% less likely to take an AP Exam than men. Data available for 37 states. Approximately five times as many students enroll in an CS class as take an AP exam.
Women/Men Relative Strength AP All Uptake Ratio	46.1%	Of students in a HS offering CS, Women are 53.9% less likely to take an AP CS Exam than Men. Logically, this is the product of the CS Uptake Ratio and the AP/CS Uptake ratio. However, this data covers the 51 states reporting whereas the CS Uptake Ratio and AP/CS Uptake Ratio is available for only 37 states.
Women/Men Relative Strength AP Pass Rate	96.4%	Of students taking an AP CS exam, women are 3.6% less likely to pass the exam than men.