Review: 2025 State of AI + CS Education Report
During CSEd Week (Dec 8 – 14, 2025), the Code.org Advocacy Coalition and CSforAll published the 2025 State of AI + CS Education report.
The 2025 report differs considerably from the previous year’s reports. The 2025 report focuses much more on AI. Previous reports did not have “AI + ” in the name (e.g., 2024 State of CS Education). Reports up through 2024 were also published by a different partnership of the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, CSTA, and the ECEP (Expanding Computing Education Pathways) Alliance.
AI + CS Education Policy Tracking
The 2025 report continued to track the progress of ten policies to make computer science foundational for each state (State Plan, CS Standards, CS Funding, Certification, Preservice, State CS Position, Require HS to Offer, Can Count, Admissions, and Graduation Requirement). In addition, to provide more focus on AI, the 2025 report now tracks four new policies to make AI foundational in each state:
- AI + CS Standards
- AI + CS Graduation Requirements
- AI + CS Professional Development Funding
- AI + CS Guidance for Schools
While the 2025 report offers a link to the report website for a more detailed description and rubrics for the ten CS education policies and the four new AI + CS education policies, I could not find any such information on the website as of Jan 7, 2026. Note that the 2024 report contained a more detailed description/rubric of the ten CS education policies used for that report.
CS Education Access and Participation Metrics
The 2025 report continued to two key performance metrics for each state:
- Percentage of Public High Schools Offering Foundational Computer Science
- Participation in Foundational High School Computer Science.
The charts below from the 2025 report show that access to foundational CS plateaued and that overall participation declined slightly nationwide in 2024-25.
Although the 2025 report continued to track the two overall metrics above for each state, it no longer tracks several metrics important for understanding equity (gender, income, race/ethnicity, ELL, disability status, school size/location) in computer science education. The report still provides some data on gender participation (34% female, 66% male in 2024-25), but its coverage between different states is uneven.
The report has not yet developed specific metrics for access/participation in AI education.
Washington Results
Results for Washington are on page 52 of the full report PDF. PDF reports and presentations specific for each state may also be retrieved using the dropdowns on the report home page.
The 2025 report for Washington shows a slight increase in the percentage of public high schools offering foundational computer science in 2024-25:
Washington has implemented none of the Policies to Make AI Foundational. As the tracking of these policies is new, only a few states have implemented any of these education policies.
And has implemented eight of the ten policies to make Computer Science foundational
In the 2024 report, the CS Funding policy for Washington was green, but in the 2025 report, it is red. Grants specific to CS education were cut from the state budget. In the 2024 report, the Preservice policy for Washington was yellow, but in the 2025 report, it is green. I am not sure what caused this change in status.
Many of the policy ratings in the report are in the eye of the beholder. In my presentation State of CS Education Washington 2025 at the FUTURE Conference in May 2025, I offered a rationale giving Washington very different policy ratings than it received in its 2024 report – three greens, six yellows, and one red. I have not yet had a chance to investigate the new AI policies. The presentation also contains an analysis of the CS Education metrics provided on Washington in the 2024 report, using previous versions of the Computer Science Education Data Summary report (2023-24 version) that provides the underlying data for many of the dashboards and reports in our Washington CS and CTE Education Analytics 2025 project.
Lawrence Tanimoto is the Treasurer of CSTA Washington. Although now retired, he taught computer science at Ingraham HS in north Seattle for several years after a long career in the international computer industry.
