Hardy 6th = 35% feeder school kids

[Anonymous]

So, in the future, where else do Wilson kids come from besides Deal, with the latest boundaries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, in the future, where else do Wilson kids come from besides Deal, with the latest boundaries?

Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Considering how some of the feeders are heavily weighted with OOB kids, this is not an interesting statistic. (It would be shocking -- a man bites dog story -- if OOB students didn't continue on to Hardy in large numbers, because Hardy generally is better than their alternative.) The meaningful number is the in-boundary students are Hardy. While this seems to be trending up slightly, it is still below where the admin has suggested it would be.

Both IB and feeder percents are steadily increasing (and likely more non-IB feeder and OOB non-feeder are from high SES locales -note the comment about Brent) than in the past.

However you slice it, Hardy is flipping - the only argument is about the pace.

[Anonymous]

Based on discussions with parents (who are friends) and by the growing excitement about Hardy, I am pretty confident that a majority of students in 4th grade at our Hardy feeder will be at Hardy for 6th. I guess we'll know next year when we see how many leave for Basis or Latin (pretty much the only two charters our school's kids leave for besides a few privates). I suspect the bulk of students will be back for 5th, which indicates their intent to go to Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Hardy recently produced a really nice video titled We Are Hardy...you can watch it from their homepage:

http://www.hardyms.org/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on discussions with parents (who are friends) and by the growing excitement about Hardy, I am pretty confident that a majority of students in 4th grade at our Hardy feeder will be at Hardy for 6th. I guess we'll know next year when we see how many leave for Basis or Latin (pretty much the only two charters our school's kids leave for besides a few privates). I suspect the bulk of students will be back for 5th, which indicates their intent to go to Hardy.

Which feeder school are you at?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy recently produced a really nice video titled We Are Hardy...you can watch it from their homepage:

http://www.hardyms.org/

That's good, because this video is what prospective IB parents have feared Hardy would be like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Considering how some of the feeders are heavily weighted with OOB kids, this is not an interesting statistic. (It would be shocking -- a man bites dog story -- if OOB students didn't continue on to Hardy in large numbers, because Hardy generally is better than their alternative.) The meaningful number is the in-boundary students are Hardy. While this seems to be trending up slightly, it is still below where the admin has suggested it would be.

Puh-leeze, doofus. 35% from feeder schools is an incredible uptick from last year. All of those kids perform at least at grade level. Expect 50% or more next year, imo.

Not true on grade level for all from feeders ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Considering how some of the feeders are heavily weighted with OOB kids, this is not an interesting statistic. (It would be shocking -- a man bites dog story -- if OOB students didn't continue on to Hardy in large numbers, because Hardy generally is better than their alternative.) The meaningful number is the in-boundary students are Hardy. While this seems to be trending up slightly, it is still below where the admin has suggested it would be.

Puh-leeze, doofus. 35% from feeder schools is an incredible uptick from last year. All of those kids perform at least at grade level. Expect 50% or more next year, imo.

Not true on grade level for all from feeders ...

Exactly. The notion that all students in each feeder are performing at grade level seems like someone has been drinking the DCPS Koolaid. Proof ?

[Anonymous]

No DC school has 100% of kids at grade level. But the Hardy feeders test scores are among the best in the city - 80%+ testing proficient and above. Harry's test scores are already second only to Deal for DCPS MS and will only improve as more feeder school kids pile in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No DC school has 100% of kids at grade level. But the Hardy feeders test scores are among the best in the city - 80%+ testing proficient and above. Harry's test scores are already second only to Deal for DCPS MS and will only improve as more feeder school kids pile in.

Do OOB students who graduate from the Hardy feeders tend to go on to Hardy, or pursue other options like private or charters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, in the future, where else do Wilson kids come from besides Deal, with the latest boundaries?

Hardy.

And Adams

[Anonymous]

The IB kids at feeders are largely not going to Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The IB kids at feeders are largely not going to Hardy.

But do almost all of the OOB kids at the feeders continue on to Hardy?

[Anonymous]

Hello? This is such a circular thread. No, only 35% of feeder children go to Hardy (reportedly) regardless of IB or OOB-- they are feeder kids.

That number actually seems low to me. Is it really true? I figured with larger feeders like Stoddert and small feeders like Mann the percentage would even out.