My high school offered CSP for the first time this year to ~70 students, only a handful of whom weren’t juniors or seniors. According to my teacher, out of the scores so far (some have been delayed), the mean score was 2.83. A bit below the national average, but I would say it turned out well for an urban public school’s first run.
I got a 5 along with 2 other seniors, which seems a little low especially knowing some of the bright minds in my class. I suppose it could be a semi-tedious/challenging class for those without prior programming experience. The general consensus is that the MC was extremely easy while the performance tasks were time-consuming and confusing; likely where most of the points were lost. A lot of the failing scores came from students who didn’t even submit some or all of the tasks.
I thought it was a great class and my teacher wasn’t horrible, but it’s far too easy to treat the class like a joke since it’s deemed a “dumrd down CSA” (which it is in some ways, but it’s apples and oranges in others). Even I did, but I had the experience to somewhat justify it while others didnt and got 3s or 4s or below in a class that isn’t too difficult to get a 5 in if the effort is put in.