Participation rates for Advanced Placement science exams—specifically physics and computer science—have risen sharply over the last year, according to new data from the College Board.

And more female students are passing AP computer science exams. DOE data shows that 177 female students passed the exam in 2016, compared to 1,266 female students in 2018.

The pool of test-takers for the Advanced Placement computer science exam is still overwhelmingly white and male, according to data from the College Board, which administers the AP tests.

Brunswick School in Greenwich is celebrating the success of its computer science students. Two students received perfect scores on AP exams.

More than 29,700 female students took an AP computer science exam in 2017, a 135% increase from 2016 and a dramatic increase from the 2,600 female students that took the AP Computer Science exam ...

Boys outnumber girls by more than 4 to 1 among computer science test takers.

The new class, called Computer Science Principles, was designed to attract students with no prior computer experience and who don’t necessarily want to pursue it as a career, said Maureen Reyes, ...

One of the two AP computer science classes has undergone changes to more closely mirror introductory college courses.

A Piscataway High School senior achieved a perfect score on the Advanced Placement Computer Science Exam – one of only 91 students in the world to attain the remarkable achievement. And even ...