Hardy---did they change number of OOB spots available?
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Anonymous
| I have heard that DCPS is trying to make it more of an inbounds school, but don't understand what this means (if true). thanks. |
Anonymous
| They are offering 15 OOB spots for Hardy for 6th grade this year. That obviously means some OOB kids are going to be welcome and admitted. There are five feeder schools for Hardy so, yeah, I certainly hope Hardy/DCPS is trying to make it more of an inbounds school. What's your point OP? |
Anonymous
| Principal Pride has said that based on her conversations and meetings with IB families, she expects a sharp increase in the number of IB families attending Hardy next year. So that means that there are fewer OOB spots. |
Anonymous
| I expect that to the extent spots are not taken by IB students they will be made available to OOB students over the summer. What is the size of the 6th grade class? |
Anonymous
It looks to be in the vicinity of 130 students. |
Anonymous
That's a lot less than last year (70). So obviously many more took the plunge. Good to see! |
Anonymous
| Hardy: welcome to Deal status in three years. |
Anonymous
| Maybe sooner. One? Two more likely. |
Anonymous
Oh boy, I and my inbounds preschoolers have our fingers crossed! |
Anonymous
This is very promising, but no one has actually taken the plunge yet. This is based on non-binding commitments. I think we won't really know until school starts. |
Anonymous
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This is very promising, but no one has actually taken the plunge yet. This is based on non-binding commitments. I think we won't really know until school starts. And the principal is put in the position of trying to plan enrollment based on these non-binding commitments. I saw Principal Pride speak recently, and she said the school was slightly underenrolled this year, which resulted in a loss of funding. In DC, money follows students. Everyone on the waitlist was admitted this year, and they called everyone who didn't accept twice. Think about the dilemma the principal faces: she doesn't want under-enrollment, and she doesn't want overcrowding either. The number of in-boundary kids is unpredictable, and once spots are offered in the lottery they can't be rescinded. So the cautious strategy is to offer a small number of slots in the lottery, and then take off of the waitlist once the number of in-boundary kids is known. The problem they ran into this year was that the waitlist didn't run deep enough. My bet is that many of the kids on the Hardy waitlist also applied to Basis and Latin, which offered seats which didn't exist a couple of years ago. With the charters joining the unified lottery this year I expect waitlists to be shorter everywhere, and move less. |
Anonymous
Now that's funny. |
Anonymous
| Why be so snyde? Anything constructive to say? |
Anonymous
| A gutsy move for principal, and a wise one I think. She gets things done so I bet it works! Fingers crossed here too. |
Anonymous
| Even though wait list may be shorter due to new lottery system, it also means that more IB families that try for Latin or Basis and don't get in will default to Hardy. |