Resources: State of CS Education at Your District Jan 2026
On Jan 22, 2026 from 6 – 7 PM PST, CSTA Washington hosted a webinar State of CS Education at Your District Jan 2026. This webinar covered:
- State of CS Education in Washington 2025
- Introduction of tools to help you understand the status of CS Education statewide and at your ESD, district, and school.
- Latest initiatives from OSPI/ESD, CSforAll Washington, and CSTA Washington to promote CS and AI education
Click here to retrieve a PDF version of the slide deck for this webinar.
In addition to providing information about the dashboards, reports, and services available to help educators improve the CS programs at their schools, the presentation additional insights into the state of CS education in Washington in 2023-24 using these reports
- The CS Student Participation Rate in Washington dropped over 7% in 2023-24 – 9.3% to 8.6%
- Native American/Eskimos (7.2%) were the only race/ethnicity to trail Whites (8.0%) in CS Student Participation
- CS Student Participation Rate by ELL Students (9.0%) was slightly higher than non-ELL students (8.9%)
- Washington does very well compared to national averages in relative CS student participation rates across race/ethnicity, income levels, English language learners, and students with disabilities. However, Washington trails the national average in relative CS student participation rates based on gender. Washington girls (5.8%) enroll in CS at less than half the rate of Washington boys (11.8%)
Thank you to Dr. Amy Ko of the University of Washington and Terron Ishihara, Computer Science Program Supervisor at OSPI, for their help in providing the presentation slides on CSforAll Washington and OSPI.
Please also see the following posts for related information:
- Washington CS and CTE Education Analytics 2025 for links to all of the dashboards and reports shown in the presentation
- KPI for CS Education in Washington 2023-24 for an explanation of the key performance indicators cited in the presentation and how they were calculated.
Lawrence Tanimoto is the Treasurer of CSTA Washington. Now retired, Lawrence taught computer science at Ingraham HS in north Seattle for several years after a long career in the international computer industry.
