• There were 631 Missouri students who took the AP Computer Science exams in 2017 (466 AP CS Java/ 165 AP CS Principles).

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/misc/ap/missouri-summary-2017.xlsx

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• One-quarter of all public school students were enrolled in rural schools. 

• Over half of all operating regular school districts and about one-third of all public schools were in rural areas.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_tla.asp

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• Missouri currently has 8,481 open computing jobs.

• The average salary for a computing occupation in Missouri is $82,050.

• Missouri had only 1,138 computer science graduates; only 17% were female.

https://code.org/advocacy/state-facts/MO.pdf 

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• Only 15% of 12th graders in rural schools were offered AP computer science classes in 2016.

http://changetheequation.org/blog/new-data-bridging-computer-science-access-gap-0