So how many IB are going to really be at Hardy?

[Anonymous]

I have heard rumors that a few kids from Key will finally attend this fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have heard rumors that a few kids from Key will finally attend this fall.

Eyewitness News will cover it if it happens.

[Anonymous]

All the girls (except two) from Stoddert 5th grade class will go to Hardy in August. Starting from next year Stoddert will most likely have two 5th grade classes and numbers will go further up.

Stoddert Mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the girls (except two) from Stoddert 5th grade class will go to Hardy in August. Starting from next year Stoddert will most likely have two 5th grade classes and numbers will go further up.

Stoddert Mom.

I mean, some Stoddert boys will go to Hardy too too, but I only checked the numbers for girls because this is what my daughter was interested in.

[Anonymous]

Mann is adding another 5th grade class this year and has nearly 100% return rate from last year's fourth graders. I thought that was a positive sign for potential future Hardy attendance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So 110 pages later and nearly a year after the 2014-15 school year began, do we finally know last year's official figures for students who live in boundaries and attend Hardy. Or is that still DCPS classified information?

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School

IB (but not including OOB who attended IB elementaries) was up to 15%

FWIW, white+asian/pacific+Multiracial = 27%

FARMs percent, unknown (for all DCPS, not just Hardy)

Two years earlier white+asian/pacific+Multiracial was equal to 14% http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/2013_Equity_Report_DCPS_External_Hardy%20Middle%20School.pdf

It seems clear that some of the increase in white, multitracial and asian is actually OOB students. not IB. So some of the use of IB as a proxy for race (and likely for SES) is not factually correct (whatever else may be wrong with it)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So 110 pages later and nearly a year after the 2014-15 school year began, do we finally know last year's official figures for students who live in boundaries and attend Hardy. Or is that still DCPS classified information?

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School

IB (but not including OOB who attended IB elementaries) was up to 15%

FWIW, white+asian/pacific+Multiracial = 27%

FARMs percent, unknown (for all DCPS, not just Hardy)

Two years earlier white+asian/pacific+Multiracial was equal to 14% http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/2013_Equity_Report_DCPS_External_Hardy%20Middle%20School.pdf

It seems clear that some of the increase in white, multitracial and asian is actually OOB students. not IB. So some of the use of IB as a proxy for race (and likely for SES) is not factually correct (whatever else may be wrong with it)

It was never clear whether people were using it that way or not -- or at least I think most people would say they were not using it that way but who really knows? Back in the aughts when my kid attended, there were kids from white families from Capitol Hill, SW, and EOTP attending OOB -- which is one (but not the only) reason I found the broad stereotypes about OOB kids to be so offensive. Nothing like being told over and over again that your kids aren't good enough for IB families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So 110 pages later and nearly a year after the 2014-15 school year began, do we finally know last year's official figures for students who live in boundaries and attend Hardy. Or is that still DCPS classified information?

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School

IB (but not including OOB who attended IB elementaries) was up to 15%

FWIW, white+asian/pacific+Multiracial = 27%

FARMs percent, unknown (for all DCPS, not just Hardy)

Two years earlier white+asian/pacific+Multiracial was equal to 14% http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/2013_Equity_Report_DCPS_External_Hardy%20Middle%20School.pdf

It seems clear that some of the increase in white, multitracial and asian is actually OOB students. not IB. So some of the use of IB as a proxy for race (and likely for SES) is not factually correct (whatever else may be wrong with it)

I find it quite offensive that you keep posting the non brown stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So 110 pages later and nearly a year after the 2014-15 school year began, do we finally know last year's official figures for students who live in boundaries and attend Hardy. Or is that still DCPS classified information?

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School

IB (but not including OOB who attended IB elementaries) was up to 15%

FWIW, white+asian/pacific+Multiracial = 27%

FARMs percent, unknown (for all DCPS, not just Hardy)

Two years earlier white+asian/pacific+Multiracial was equal to 14% http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/2013_Equity_Report_DCPS_External_Hardy%20Middle%20School.pdf

It seems clear that some of the increase in white, multitracial and asian is actually OOB students. not IB. So some of the use of IB as a proxy for race (and likely for SES) is not factually correct (whatever else may be wrong with it)

It was never clear whether people were using it that way or not -- or at least I think most people would say they were not using it that way but who really knows? Back in the aughts when my kid attended, there were kids from white families from Capitol Hill, SW, and EOTP attending OOB -- which is one (but not the only) reason I found the broad stereotypes about OOB kids to be so offensive. Nothing like being told over and over again that your kids aren't good enough for IB families.

Prospective IB families will not be satisfied until Hardy is virtually identical to Deal in all academic, extra-curricular and student achievement aspects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So 110 pages later and nearly a year after the 2014-15 school year began, do we finally know last year's official figures for students who live in boundaries and attend Hardy. Or is that still DCPS classified information?

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School

IB (but not including OOB who attended IB elementaries) was up to 15%

FWIW, white+asian/pacific+Multiracial = 27%

FARMs percent, unknown (for all DCPS, not just Hardy)

Two years earlier white+asian/pacific+Multiracial was equal to 14% http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/2013_Equity_Report_DCPS_External_Hardy%20Middle%20School.pdf

It seems clear that some of the increase in white, multitracial and asian is actually OOB students. not IB. So some of the use of IB as a proxy for race (and likely for SES) is not factually correct (whatever else may be wrong with it)

I find it quite offensive that you keep posting the non brown stats.

As my radical friends keep reminding me, we do not live in a post-racial society. Whether Hardy MS becomes racially integrated or not is a legitimate question. Though I agree that race is a very poor proxy for SES, esp for this school. But DCPS has not released FARMs data yet. And as has been noted, IB status is also an imperfect proxy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have heard rumors that a few kids from Key will finally attend this fall.

I thought the most recent newsletter said it was 10 expected? Or was that last year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard rumors that a few kids from Key will finally attend this fall.

I thought the most recent newsletter said it was 10 expected? Or was that last year?

There will be a ton of kids from the feeder schools attending 6th grade next year, and even more in the year after that. Of course, we may not see the raw numbers for the 6th grade population until this time next year...maybe we can spend a couple of hundreds pages commenting on the same issues by then.

BTW, do we even know for sure how many IB attended 6th grade LAST year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So 110 pages later and nearly a year after the 2014-15 school year began, do we finally know last year's official figures for students who live in boundaries and attend Hardy. Or is that still DCPS classified information?

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School

IB (but not including OOB who attended IB elementaries) was up to 15%

FWIW, white+asian/pacific+Multiracial = 27%

FARMs percent, unknown (for all DCPS, not just Hardy)

Two years earlier white+asian/pacific+Multiracial was equal to 14% http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/2013_Equity_Report_DCPS_External_Hardy%20Middle%20School.pdf

It seems clear that some of the increase in white, multitracial and asian is actually OOB students. not IB. So some of the use of IB as a proxy for race (and likely for SES) is not factually correct (whatever else may be wrong with it)

I find it quite offensive that you keep posting the non brown stats.

As my radical friends keep reminding me, we do not live in a post-racial society. Whether Hardy MS becomes racially integrated or not is a legitimate question. Though I agree that race is a very poor proxy for SES, esp for this school. But DCPS has not released FARMs data yet. And as has been noted, IB status is also an imperfect proxy.

FARMS is down 30% from last year. It was 55% last year and is 40% this year.

Source: called DCPS Office of Data and asked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard rumors that a few kids from Key will finally attend this fall.

I thought the most recent newsletter said it was 10 expected? Or was that last year?

There will be a ton of kids from the feeder schools attending 6th grade next year, and even more in the year after that. Of course, we may not see the raw numbers for the 6th grade population until this time next year...maybe we can spend a couple of hundreds pages commenting on the same issues by then.

BTW, do we even know for sure how many IB attended 6th grade LAST year?

It's no surprise that the feeders with large OOB enrollments send those same kids on to Hardy The proverbial proof in the pudding as far as a sustainable upward Hardy trajectory is concerned will be when those feeders with overwhelmingly IB student populations that have traditionally been very skeptical about Hardy -- particularly Mann and Key -- actually start feeding a significant percentage of their students to Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard rumors that a few kids from Key will finally attend this fall.

I thought the most recent newsletter said it was 10 expected? Or was that last year?

There will be a ton of kids from the feeder schools attending 6th grade next year, and even more in the year after that. Of course, we may not see the raw numbers for the 6th grade population until this time next year...maybe we can spend a couple of hundreds pages commenting on the same issues by then.

BTW, do we even know for sure how many IB attended 6th grade LAST year?

It's no surprise that the feeders with large OOB enrollments send those same kids on to Hardy The proverbial proof in the pudding as far as a sustainable upward Hardy trajectory is concerned will be when those feeders with overwhelmingly IB student populations that have traditionally been very skeptical about Hardy -- particularly Mann and Key -- actually start feeding a significant percentage of their students to Hardy.

Well, we just heard anecdotal information from Mann, Stoddert and Key: not good enough for you?