AP Data for the United States-1998-2014

The following file is a spreadsheet with all the data for the number of CS AP A exam taken in each state from 1998 to 2014. The data was complied from the data available at http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/ap/data. This data was originally gathered by the CSTA board, but Barb Ericson of Georgia Tech keeps adding to it each year.

APCSAStatePop-98-2014.xlsx

For detailed race and gender information on the AP CS A exam see Detail Race and Gender Information 2014

Nationally 37,327 students took the AP CS A exam in 2014. This was a big increase (26.29%) from the 29,555 students who took it in 2013. The number of teachers who passed the audit was 2,525 versus 2,252 the previous year. The number of female exam takers was 7,458 which was up from 5,485 the year before. The number of black students was 1,469 which was an increase from 1,090 the previous year. The number of Hispanic students was 3,270 up from 2,408 the previous year.

The pass rate ranged from 34.5% in Arkansas with 56 students passing out of 161 to 83.333% in New Hampshire with 90 out of 108 students passing the exam with a score of 3 or higher.

The percentage female was 20% which was an increase from the previous year 18.55%.
The overall pass rate was 61% which was down from 66.85% the previous year.
The female pass rate was 57% which was down from 62% the year before.
The black pass rate was 33.35% which was down from 35.59% the year before.

The top 10 states in terms of the number of exams taken were in 2014 were:

pos 2014	state	2013	2014	pos 2013
1	California	4964	6676	1
2	Texas	3979	4551	2
3	New York	1858	2734	3
4	Florida	1521	2111	8
5	Virginia	1655	2069	4
6	New Jersey	1582	1986	6
7	Illinois	1559	1955	7
8	Maryland	1629	1639	5
9	Georgia	1261	1536	9
10	Massachusetts	1067	1486	10

As you can see California had a 34% increase from 2013 to 2014 in the number of students taking the exam. Florida jumped from number 8 to number 4 with a 39% increase in the number of students taking the exam. Maryland has surprisingly little growth from 2013 and dropped from number 5 to number 8 with less than 1% increase. Virginia dropped from 4th to 5th even though they had a 25% increase in the number of students taking the exam.

Compared to the population of the state Maryland was the winner again. Here are the top 10 states by # exams in 2014 / estimated 2012 population / 100,000

1	Maryland	27.85
2	Virginia	25.27
3	New Jersey	22.4
4	Massachusetts	22.35
5	Connecticut	17.88
6	California	17.54
7	Texas	17.46
8	District of Columbia - Wash D.C.	16.44
9	Georgia	15.48
10	Washington	15.19

Eighteen states had less than 100 people take the AP CS A exam in 2014, with Wyoming still the only state with no students taking the exam.

Maine	99
Hawaii	90
Rhode Island	89
Delaware	79
Vermont	71
Nebraska	71
New Mexico	61
Louisiana	61
Nevada	61
Idaho	58
West Virginia	48
Kansas	40
Alaska	30
South Dakota	29
North Dakota	14
Montana	4
Mississippi	4
Wyoming	0

Only 8 states had a decrease in the number of students taking the AP CS A exam from the previous year: Oregon, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana, Arkansas, West Virginia, and Maine.

Last modified 10 March 2015 at 9:37 am by ericson