Huge years for APCSA at Jacobs! 3.82 average, way above the national and IL average! 94.1% pass rate! 51 test takers, we have both quality and quantity at Jacobs! I love these students!!

Jet Trommer earned a 5th place finish in Computer Science at the State ACES Competition!

ACES Computer Science goes 1-2 at the NIU Sectional! Jet Trommer - 1st Place Jack Baldwin - 2nd Place Both will be going to state in April!

Jet Trommer & Jack Baldwin tied as Regional Champs in Computer Science for the ACES Competition! Sectionals is next!

Jacobs A finished 3rd out of 40+ teams at the MSOE OP Coding Competition! Great job by Jonah Armbrecht, Sahasra Kotarkonda, Jet Trommer and Jack Baldwin! First time at the competition! @JacobsHighS

Post competition at MSOE! Results make take a while, can’t wait to see how they do!

Jacobs A on the board early with a 10 point question!

At MSOE for the OP Competition for Computer Science! Early morning and a long trip, but worth it! @JacobsHighS

The runners clean up well at homecoming!

Undergrad CS students can have their tuition covered in exchange for working at a qualified job in Illinois after graduation. The new iGROW grant will grow Illinois' thriving tech sector and help bright and determined students come to #ILLINOIS. ▶️ https://t.co/drEl6VRQqE

Got to see a bunch of former APCS students at a wedding last night! Almost all of them are in the CS field now and are extremely successful!

The most challenging question types for this year’s AP Computer Science Principles students, overall, were code analysis questions, on which the average score was 60%.

% of AP Computer Science Principles students earning each point on the Create project (which is 30% of the AP score): Program Purpose/Function: 59% Data Abstraction: 72% Managing Complexity: 37% Procedural Abstraction: 46% Algorithm Implementation: 47% Testing: 41%

This year’s AP Computer Science Principles students scored very high on exam questions about systems and networks; a massive 19% answered all such questions correctly.

Educators expanded access to AP Computer Science Principles for ~31,000 additional students this year – a massive 22% increase – and scores remained virtually the same as when fewer students had such opportunities last year, a testament to educators’ belief in student potential.

The 2023 AP Computer Science Principles scores: 5: 12%; 4: 23%; 3: 33%; 2: 20%; 1: 12%.

More good news: this year’s AP Computer Science A students demonstrated slightly stronger mastery than last year’s, so scores have risen, even as educators have expanded access to 19% more students than the prior school year.

AP Computer Science A students generally earned strongest scores in the free-response question on Q3 about Array / ArrayList; 31% earned 8-9 out of the 9 points possible.

The most challenging question on this year’s AP Computer Science A exam was Q4 on 2D Array; 34% of students earned 0 of the 9 points possible:

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Jacobs 2020 grad Ashleigh Price came into today to speak to all our APCS classes Ashleigh is a current student at EIU, majoring in Digital Media Technology, with minors in Computer Science and Studio Art She is an amazing combination of art and CS #eiu #hdjalumni