Hispanic-Latinx/White Relative Strength CS Education Metrics Dashboards 2021

The Hispanic-Latinx/White relative strength CS education metrics for 2021 originally described in the post Hispanic-Latinx Students in HS CS: Little Gaps Everywhere 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 Hispanic-Latinx Students in HS CS: Little Gaps Everywhere, they do not affect the overall conclusions.

This blog post focuses on the following metrics:

Metric	Value	Interpretation
Hispanic-Latinx/White Relative Strength CS School Attendance	96.0%	Hispanic-Latinx are 4.0% less likely as Whites to attend a high school with a CS course
Hispanic-Latinx/White Relative Strength CS Uptake Ratio	79.2%	Hispanic-Latinx are 20.8% more likely than Whites to enroll in a CS course in schools that offer CS. Data available for 37 states.
Hispanic-Latinx/White Relative Strength AP/CS Uptake Ratio	88.2%	Of students enrolled in an CS course, Hispanic-Latinx are 11.8% less likely to take an AP Exam than Whites. Data available for 37 states. Approximately five times as many students enroll in a CS class as take an AP CS exam.
Hispanic-Latinx/White Relative Strength AP All Uptake Ratio	70.4%	Of students in a HS offering CS, Hispanic-Latinx are 29.6% less likely to take an AP CS Exam than Whites. Logically, this stat is the product of the CS Uptake Ratio and the AP/CS Uptake ratio. However, this stat covers the 51 states reporting whereas the CS Uptake Ratio and AP/CS Uptake Ratio are available for only 37 states.
Hispanic-Latinx/White Relative Strength AP Pass Rate	63.3%	Of students taking an AP CS exam, Hispanic-Latinx are 36.7% less likely to pass the exam than Whites.