2020

EQUITYREPORTWe also believe in the importance of creating
equitable opportunities in the workplace and are
constantly striving to increase diversity on the Skill
Struck team.

ACCOUNTABILITY IN INCREASING EQUITY

We are a young company, and this is our first Equity
Report. We’re constantly learning and we have a lotof exciting growth ahead of us. As we grow, we’d liketo be transparent about the progress we’re making in
improving equity in computer science K–12 education.
To show how we are working to make Computer
Science (CS) more equitable, we’ve decided to start
reporting our user background: gender, race, age,
free meal eligibility, and Title 1 status.

2020 EQUITY REPORT

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ecause our mission is to create opportunities
for all students to develop technical skills,
we know that we have a responsibility to makecomputer science education more accessible forunderrepresented groups.

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EQUITY

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Not all demographic data was available forcollection. Out of our total partnered schools, theseare the percentages of schools we are able toreport on:
Gender enrollment: 77.8% reportedMinority enrollment: 80.6% reported
Hispanic enrollment: 80.6% reported
Black enrollment: 80.6% reported
Free meal eligibility: 80.6% reported
Age level: 97.2% reported
Title one status: 27.8% reported

2020 EQUITY REPORT•••••••SKILL STRUCK

To collect our user demographic data, wesurveyed our current school site partner
population as of January 2021.

Our staff demographic data represents all of ourfull-time and part-time employees as of January
2021 and was collected by a survey. You can learn
more about how we collected our data in the“Methodology” section of this report.
ACCOUNTABILITY IN INCREASING EQUITY

Our mission is to create opportunities for allstudents to develop technical skills.

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SKILL STRUCKIN K–12

SKILL STRUCKWe collected this data from our school anddistrict sites across the United States. Thesenumbers represent the student demographics of theschools we are partnered with.

Skill Struck Users

EQUITY WITH SKILL STRUCK IN K–12

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SKILL STRUCKSkill Struck Users

Race

2020 EQUITY REPORTOur most diverse school partner has 98%
minority enrollment, where 86% are Hispanic orLatinx and 10% are Black or African American.

EQUITY WITH SKILL STRUCK IN K–126

SKILL STRUCKSkill Struck Users

Age Level

2020 EQUITY REPORTEQUITY WITH SKILL STRUCK IN K–127

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survey collecting demographics data went toeach of our staff members. As we are expanding
our team, we are open to hiring remote workers toincrease diversity of gender, race, and background.

Skill Struck Staff
GenderTechnical

Non-Technical

DIVERSITY AT SKILL STRUCKLeadership2020 EQUITY REPORTTotal Staff

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Total Staff

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LeadershipTechnicalDIVERSITY AT SKILL STRUCKNon-Technical10

Highest Level of Education

SKILL STRUCKSkill Struck Staff

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LOOKING
FORWARD

SKILL STRUCKLOOKINGFORWARDIn the summer of 2019, Skill Struck platforms were
implemented in our first partner classroom. We areproud of the impact we have made thus far and arelooking forward to increasing that impact each year
as we grow.

2020 EQUITY REPORTIn anticipation of this growth, we are refining ourplatforms to ensure that they are accessible for all
students and educators. We are accomplishing
this by providing our curriculum in both English andSpanish, building platforms that support self-paced
learning, making standards-aligned K–12 computerscience curriculum, and building a professional
development platform for educators.

Want to ensure that your school or district iseffectively increasing equity in computer scienceeducation?

Get Free Equity Consultation

LOOKING FORWARD

Get a free ($500 value) equity consultation with
one of our representatives.

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ur staff demographic data represents all ourfull-time and part-time staff as of January
2021, and was collected via self-identification using
Google Forms.
Leadership team This is currently defined as those
who are head of their department.

Non-technical This includes all roles other thansoftware engineering or product.

2020 EQUITY REPORTTechnical In this breakdown of staff data, technicalroles include our software developers, and those on
our product team.

METHODOLOGY
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