Greenwich High School Junior Brandon Nadel earned a perfect score on the college-level Advanced Placement computer science principles exam from May 2023.

The kudos continued with Yucel’s AP Computer Science teacher, who called his star student "a natural learner." "Yunus is special," Soin said.

This is the second year in a row he has gotten 100 percent of the answers correct on an AP exam, the school said. Last year, Kulsakdinun received a perfect score in AP Computer Science Principles.

Sweet’s AP Computer Science Principles class at Renaissance High School had 35 students, 63 percent of whom were female. All but two of his students decided to take the final exam, and 27 passed.

In 2016, only 177 New York City girls passed an AP computer-science exam, officials said. In 2018, 1,266 earned the distinction.

More than 29,700 female students took an AP computer science exam in 2017, a 135% increase from 2016 and a dramatic increase from the 2,600 female students that took the AP Computer Science exam ...

Not only did these students receive the top score of 5 but they were 5 out of 112 students (amounting to just 0.2 percent of the 60,878 students who took the 2017 AP Computer Science A Exam) from ...

The College Board’s other AP computer science course, called Computer Science A, focuses more strictly on coding. “Students should be able to write, run, test and debug solutions in the Java ...

Of the 34 AP subject exams administered in 2014, computer science experienced the highest annual growth rate, with the number of exams administered increasing by 26 percent since 2013 to 39,278 ...

Boys continue to dominate AP Computer Science A, making up about 78 percent of test takers. But slightly more girls (2 percent) took the exam this year than last year.