AP Data for the United States 1998-2016

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 2016. 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-98-2016-v2.xlsx

For detailed race and gender information on the AP CS A exam see Detailed Race and Gender Information 2016

The number of institutions that passed the audit to offer AP CS A was 3,206 in 2015-2016 versus 2,892 the previous year - an 11% increase.

The number of exam takers in the United States in 2016 was 54,379. That was a 17.3% increase from the previous year as shown in the table below.

year	total	% increase
2010	19,390	20.7%
2011	21,139	9.02%
2012	24,782	17.2%
2013	29,555	19.3%
2014	37.327	26.3%
2015	46,344	24.2%
2016	54,379	17.3%

The number of female exam takers was 12,642, up from 10,142 the year before. That is a 25% increase.
The percentage female was 23%, which was an increase from the previous year of 22%.
The number of Black exam takers was 2,027, versus 1,784 the year before. That is a 14% increase.
The percentage of Black exam takers was 3.7% down from 3.8% the year before.
The number of Hispanic exam takers was 6,256 up from 4,272 the year before. That is a 46% increase!
The percentage of Hispanic exam takers was 11.5% up from 9.2% the year before.

The overall pass rate was 64%, which was the same as the year before.
The female pass rate was 61%, which was the same as the year before.
The black pass rate was 33%, which was down from 38% the year before.
The Hispanic pass rate was 42% up from 41% the year before.

The top 10 states in terms of the number of exams taken were in 2016 were:

pos 2016	state	2016	2015	2014	pos 2015
1	California	10,244	8688	6676	1
2	Texas	6060	5172	4551	2
3	New York	3761	3126	2734	3
4	New Jersey	3056	2468	1986	5
5	Illinois	2938	2395	1955	6
6	Virginia	2856	2377	2069	7
7	Florida	2688	2528	2111	4
8	Massachusetts	2279	1784	1486	9
9	Georgia	2033	1658	1536	11
10	Washington	1945	1770	1048	10

Four more states had over 1,000 people take the exam in 2016.

pos 2016	state	num exams
11	Maryland	1935
12	Pennsylvania	1891
13	North Carolina	1425
14	Ohio	1149

Maryland is no longer #1 for the number of exams per 100,000 of population (2010). They dropped to #4.

pos	state	# exams per 100,000 of population
1	Virginia	34.8%
2	New Jersey	34.4%
3	Massachusetts	34.2%
4	Maryland	32.8%
5	Washington	28.2%
6	District of Columbia	27.8%
7	California	26.9%
8	Connecticut	26.1%
9	Texas	23.2%
10	Illinois	22.8%

All states had at least someone take the exam. Thirteen states had less than 100 students take the exam: West Virginia 97, Rhode Island 94, Nebraska 88, New Mexico 79, Vermont 70, Alaska 60, Idaho 59, Kansas 57, North Dakota 35, South Dakota 26, Mississippi 16, Montana 9, Wyoming 6.

Last modified 21 September 2017 at 3:38 pm by ericson