For These Small High Schools, Computer Science Finds a Place

Abstract

"The lack of access to foundational computer science courses is almost exclusively a small school issue," says the "2023 State of Computer Science Education" report by nonprofit Code.org and two other groups promoting the subject's instruction. "For the majority of students, we have done a great job making sure they have access to a computer science course," says Sean Roberts, vice president of U.S. strategy for Code.org. At Wyoming's Ten Sleep School, a 102-student K-12 school, Jason Thoren teaches computer science one period a day to nine of the school's 32 high school students.