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How many Missouri high schools offer computer science?

About 56%. Code.org’s 2025 data counts 310 of 551 Missouri high schools offering computer science in 2023 to 2024, against 60% nationally, and 2.86% of high school students enrolled in it. Modern Age Coders fills the gap with live online classes for Missouri students: Scratch and games for younger children, JavaScript and Python for teens, and AP Computer Science A.

Whether a Missouri teenager can take computer science at school still depends heavily on which school. The latest published count puts the share of high schools with a course at a little over half, and the share of students actually enrolled at under three in a hundred. This page lays out those figures exactly as published, year by year, and is open about what we could not check: Missouri’s education department and statute sites refused our automated requests, so we print no state policy wording at all. What we can offer is the data, an honest reading of it, a Kansas City open data project that teaches the same skill of reading a trend, and live classes that do not depend on what the local timetable holds.

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Facts last verified 18 October 2026. Teaching is online; no Missouri branch is claimed.

Course picks for Missouri

Four courses for Missouri students, from first game to AP

If the school schedule has no computer science slot, these are the usual first steps. The free class confirms the level before anything is booked.

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Grades 2 to 5

Scratch Coding for Kids

Scratch from the first sprite to complete games, with a finished project every few weeks.

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Grades 4 to 7

Game Development for Kids

Game design across Scratch, Roblox and Minecraft, the bridge from playing games to building them.

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Grades 7 to 10

JavaScript for Teens

Interactive websites and browser games in JavaScript, typed code a teen can show to anyone with a browser.

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Grades 10 to 12

AP Computer Science A

Java and the full AP Computer Science A exam, for students whose school lists AP but has no CS teacher free.

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Browse the course atlas for more than one hundred options and use the coding roadmap to check prerequisites.

The four we are known for

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

These run underneath everything above. Every one is live and online, placed by ability rather than by age, and the first class is free.

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Vibe codingAges 13 to 17

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python, web and AI projects where the learner still owns the thinking.

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Python and AICollege and adult

Python Automation Course

Automate the work you already do, then let AI carry part of it.

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AI and MLAges 14 to 18

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Train a model, read what it learned, and be able to say why it is wrong.

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Agentic codingProfessionals

Codex & Claude Code

Run AI coding agents on real work without losing control of the codebase.

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Six years of access

Missouri high schools offering computer science, 2018 to 2024

The share of Missouri public high schools offering foundational computer science, read cell by cell from the Code.org 2025 data download on 17 October 2026.

Missouri, share of high schools offering CS (Code.org, 2025)
School yearMissouriWhat changed
2018 to 201938%Starting point in the series
2019 to 202050%A jump of twelve points
2020 to 202149%Flat
2021 to 202250%Flat
2022 to 202357.7%The highest value in the series
2023 to 202456.3%, 310 of 551 high schoolsSlightly down; the data credits Missouri’s own education agency
2024 to 2025No value publishedLeft blank in the data, not estimated here

Read the shape

One big step between 2018 and 2020, three years of standing still, a second step in 2022 to 2023, then a small slip. That is not a steady climb, and a straight trend line through it would hide the plateau.

Read the gap

Code.org prints the national share as 60% for 2023 to 2024. Missouri’s 56.3% sits a few points below it, so the state’s position is close to the middle rather than at either end.

Read the blank

There is no Missouri figure for 2024 to 2025 in this release. We leave the cell empty. Filling it with a guess, even a sensible one, would turn a published series into our own invention.

Students, not just schools

How many Missouri students take computer science, and how many schools offer AP

A course on the timetable and a student in the seat are different things. These are the participation and AP school figures for Missouri as published.

Participation and AP, Missouri (published values)
MeasureMissouriSource
Missouri high schoolers in a CS course, 2023 to 20247,804 of 273,338, or 2.86%Code.org (2025), which takes the enrollment base from NCES, Fall 2022
Participation, 2022 to 20232.9%Code.org (2025), participation tab
National participation, 2023 to 20246.4%Code.org (2025), national row
Schools with AP exams, 2023 then 2024282, then 306College Board, School Report of AP Exams by State
Of those, public212, then 238College Board, same report
Of those, non-public70, then 68College Board, same report

Put the two halves side by side and a pattern appears. More than half of Missouri high schools list computer science, yet fewer than three students in a hundred were enrolled in it in 2023 to 2024, under half the national rate printed in the same release. Meanwhile the number of Missouri schools giving AP exams of any kind rose by 24 between 2023 and 2024, almost all of them public. For a motivated student that is a real opening: AP Computer Science A and Principles are exams anyone can prepare for, even where the school has no matching class.

Citing the data

Code.org (2025). 2025 State of AI + CS Education. We quote individual Missouri values from its data download and do not republish the dataset. AP school counts are from the College Board School Report of AP Exams by State, 2023 to 2024.

Signature project

Did Kansas City trim more trees each year? A trend project on city open data

Kansas City, Missouri publishes a small public-domain table of trees its crews trimmed and removed, quarter by quarter. Sixteen rows are enough to teach the three habits every trend analysis needs.

Trees trimmed and removed per fiscal year (our sums of the four quarterly rows, from the city’s file downloaded 18 October 2026)
Fiscal year labelTrimmed (our sum)Removed (our sum)
FY 2012-20132,8531,741
FY 2013-20145,8343,634
FY 2014-20155,7662,257
FY 2015-20167,2222,771

1. Put time in order

The file does not list quarters in sequence: FY 2012-2013 Q4 sits fifteenth of sixteen lines, and Q3 of 2014-2015 comes before Q1. Students parse the label into a year and a quarter and sort on both before drawing anything.

2. Aggregate by year

Summing four quarters per fiscal year gives the table above. Trimming rises from 2,853 to 7,222 across the four years by our arithmetic, while removals peak in FY 2013-2014 and fall back.

3. Ask what is missing

The rows stop in 2016, and a second column headed Fiscal Year is empty in every row. A trend that ends nine years ago says nothing about today, and a careful analyst writes that sentence before any conclusion.

Students then compare a single quarter with its year. The busiest quarter for trimming was FY 2015-2016 Q4, with 2,321 trees; the busiest for removals was FY 2013-2014 Q1, with 1,710. Plotting quarters instead of years shows how much the yearly totals smooth away, which is exactly the judgment they will need when they read a state access series like the one higher up this page.

Whose numbers these are

The quarterly counts are the city’s, published under a public domain licence. The yearly sums and every comparison are ours, made for teaching. We do not know how the city defines its fiscal year, so the page keeps the city’s labels instead of converting them to calendar years.

Class times

Central Time from St. Louis to Joplin

The IANA time zone database lists Missouri under US central time, the zone it calls America/Chicago.

Summer offset

During Central Daylight Time, India is 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of Springfield and Columbia. Our teachers absorb that gap; families simply pick a Central Time slot.

Winter offset

Under Central Standard Time the gap is 11 hours 30 minutes. Bookings are always written in Central Time so no one has to convert anything.

This year’s changes

Missouri moves back an hour on November 1, 2026 and forward an hour on March 14, 2027. A class time confirmed in Central Time stays put for the family on both dates.

The tree file and the clock teach one idea

Dates are data. A quarter label that sorts wrongly and a reminder that drifts by an hour in November are the same kind of bug: treating time as plain text or a fixed number instead of using a proper date or zone such as America/Chicago.

Learning ladder

A route through computer science that does not depend on the timetable

Grade bands are guides; a free class sets the real starting point.

Grades K to 4

Blocks and stories

Sequences, loops and events through Scratch and block apps, ending in games a child can share.

Scratch Coding for KidsApp Making for Kids
Grades 5 to 8

Games and first typed code

Game design, then Python, so a middle schooler arrives at high school already writing real code.

Game Development for KidsPython and AI for Kids
Grades 9 to 10

Web and data

JavaScript for the web and Python for data, including trend projects like the Kansas City file.

JavaScript for TeensData Science for Teens
Grades 11 to 12

AP and machine learning

AP Computer Science A in Java, and machine learning with models students build and test themselves.

AP Computer Science AAI and Machine Learning for Teens
Coding and AI

An AI tool will draw the trend line. Will it notice the rows are out of order?

Often it will not, and that is the case for learning to code yourself.

Hand the Kansas City file to a chatbot and ask for a chart, and you may get a neat line that zigzags because the quarters were plotted in file order. Nothing in the output warns you. A student who has sorted dates by hand sees the problem at once.

The same applies to the state figures above: a model asked for Missouri’s 2024 to 2025 access rate might produce a confident number where the published data has none. Knowing what a dataset contains, and saying so, is a skill only practice builds.

Missouri students who learn to check a trend before trusting it will use AI tools well; the ones who skip that step will be used by them. The longer argument is in the case for coding skills when AI drafts the code.

Delivery

Live classes for Missouri, whether the school has a CS teacher or not

With roughly 44% of Missouri high schools showing no computer science course in the latest count, an online classroom is often the simplest way in.

From any Missouri town

A student in Cape Girardeau and one in St. Joseph can sit in the same live class, each at a kitchen table, without anyone driving to a campus.

Planned around US school

Lessons follow US grade levels and the May AP calendar. When a teacher at school sets graded work, our role stops at explaining the concepts; the submission is written by the student alone.

Free first lesson

One real class with a teacher, then a suggested level, course and time in writing. No card is requested.

Level-matched batches

A batch is fifteen to twenty students at one level, from Missouri and other states.

Private lessons

One teacher, one student, for AP preparation, competitions or a faster pace.

Flexible times

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays.

Online only, taught from India

There is no Modern Age Coders office in Missouri, and the page claims none. Students need a computer, sound and a dependable internet connection.

Fees

What Missouri families pay

Three figures, shown below in full.

First classUSD 0

A full first class without charge, ending in a recommended level, course and time slot.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of batch classes with fifteen to twenty students at the same level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

A month of one-to-one classes with a dedicated teacher.

Families anywhere in the US pay one rate in US dollars, so a household in Kansas City pays what one in the Bootheel pays. Billing begins only after the free class, and the pricing page covers holidays and missed lessons.

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Reviews

Google reviews from parents and students

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews. These are real reviews, reproduced as written.

★★★★★

"The one step solution for my son. Modern Age Coders make learning coding so simple that kids love it. The teachers explain complex concepts clearly with practical exercises and interactive content."

Ria Mukherjee

Parent

★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders has been a game-changer for me. I struggled to grasp IT concepts and coding before joining, but their classes transformed everything. I can now confidently write complex programs with ease."

Samriddha Mondal

Student

★★★★★

"One of the most wonderful education centres out there. Education is not limited to school syllabus but focuses on skill development."

Vansh Agarwal

Student

★★★★★

"My child Dhairya is really enjoying the Modern Age Coders classes. This is his first online class and he eagerly looks forward to it. I can already see his improvement, and the teachers are very cooperative."

Sonam Oswal

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★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders have wonderful teachers who teach in a clear, easy and practical way. The teacher boosts students' confidence and inspires them to learn without hesitation."

Sonu Goyal

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★★★★★

"I highly recommend this computer coding class! The teachers are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about coding."

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The first lesson fits the student: a Scratch game for a third grader, a browser game for an eighth grader, or the Kansas City trend project for a high schooler.

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FAQ

Missouri coding and AI questions

Short answers based on the published figures.

What share of Missouri high schools offer computer science?

Code.org reports 310 of 551 Missouri high schools, or 56.3%, offering computer science in 2023 to 2024, up from 38% in 2018 to 2019. Its 2025 release has no Missouri value for 2024 to 2025.

How many Missouri students take computer science?

The same release counts 7,804 of 273,338 Missouri high school students, or 2.86%, enrolled in computer science in 2023 to 2024, against a national rate of 6.4%.

Is computer science a graduation requirement in Missouri?

We could not verify Missouri policy: the state education department and statute sites refused our requests in October 2026, so this page prints no requirement either way. Check your district's graduation handbook directly.

How many Missouri schools give AP exams?

The College Board counts 282 Missouri schools with AP exams in 2023 and 306 in 2024, of which 238 were public schools in 2024.

Can a Missouri student take AP Computer Science without a school course?

Our AP Computer Science A course teaches the full exam content whether or not the school runs the class. How and where the exam is booked is set by the College Board, so read its AP Students pages early in the school year; 306 Missouri schools gave AP exams in 2024.

What time zone are classes booked in?

Central Time. The IANA database lists Missouri under US central time, and Missouri clocks change on November 1, 2026 and March 14, 2027.

When can classes run for Missouri families?

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays, always confirmed in Central Time.

Do you have a center in St. Louis or Kansas City?

No. All teaching is live and online from India, so families in either city, or anywhere else in Missouri, join the same way.

What is the Kansas City tree project?

Students download the city's public-domain table of trees trimmed and removed from FY 2012-2013 to FY 2015-2016, sort the out-of-order quarters, total each year and explain why a trend ending in 2016 cannot describe today.

Explore the United States

More reading for Missouri families

Teens aiming at the exam can start with AP Computer Science A classes, and builders can look at hackathons for high school students. For other states, the United States hub lists every guide, and the North Carolina page shows a state with a CS graduation rule.

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