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The Foxcroft School earned the College Board Advanced Placement Computer Science Female Diversity awards for achieving high female representation in two computer science courses for the 2022-23 school year, the school announced in a news release.

The Middleburg school is the only one in Virginia and one of only 68 worldwide to earn the awards, which are for high female representation in both Advanced Placement Computer Science A and Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles.

Foxcroft continues to lead the way in STEM education for girls, Head of School Cathy S. McGehee said in the release. We encourage our students to take computer science. The technology field is one where women continue to be underrepresented, and efforts such as ours can make a difference."

This is the third time Foxcroft has received both the Computer Science A and Principles course female diversity awards and the fifth time it has received AP Computer Science Female Diversity awards.

Women represent just 24% of the five million people in computing occupations, according to the release. Research from the International Coalition of Girls Schools shows that attending an all-girls school strengthens interest and success in STEM fields. Girls school graduates rate confidence in their abilities at least 10% higher than their co-educated counterparts when it comes to math and computer skills.

A Google study showed that 54% of female computer science majors took AdvancedPlacement Computer Science A in high school. College Board research also found that, for most students Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles serves as a stepping stone to other advanced advanced STEM coursework.

The Foxcroft School in rural western Loudoun County was founded in 1914 and is a college preparatory boarding and day school for girls in grades 9-12.

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Foxcroft the lone Virginia school to earn dual computer science female diversity awards - InsideNoVa