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“In a time when we have more jobs than people to fill them, we’re seeing a decline in interest,” said Leigh Ann DeLyser, AFSE’s computer science curriculum consultant.

The number of software development jobs is expected to surge by 30 percent this decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But only about 20,000 high school students take the Advanced Placement Computer Science test every year — a sliver of the more than 150,000 that take the AP Calculus exam.

This week on WNYC’s New Tech City, host Manoush Zomorodi goes back to school and gets a tour of the Academy for Software Engineering to see how it is addressing the growing high-tech skills gap.