Hyde-Addison reviews

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We are a IB family that will be sending our child to Hyde for the first time next year and are looking forward to it. Would love to walk to the school, but understand the bus ride is just for another year and that is the trade off with getting a lovely new building. We do know of a good number of folks in Georgetown who left Hyde due to the renovation, but understand that each family has their own set of circumstances. We plan to be active volunteers and looking forward to getting to know others.

I was surprised to read the Wilson article in the Gtown Current that noted that 84% of incoming Deal students in 2015 were recommended by their teachers for AP classes but zero percent were recommended from Hardy? I bring this up because we are IB for Hardy and were looking forward to our children attending a local middle school after Hyde. This does give us pause even if the article noted that Wilson was working on correcting the issue with "Honors for All," but that appeared to be just for AP English and Biology.

Thanks to the OP for starting this Hyde thread; I also couldn't find a lot in searching after the swing space move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a IB family that will be sending our child to Hyde for the first time next year and are looking forward to it. Would love to walk to the school, but understand the bus ride is just for another year and that is the trade off with getting a lovely new building. We do know of a good number of folks in Georgetown who left Hyde due to the renovation, but understand that each family has their own set of circumstances. We plan to be active volunteers and looking forward to getting to know others.

I was surprised to read the Wilson article in the Gtown Current that noted that 84% of incoming Deal students in 2015 were recommended by their teachers for AP classes but zero percent were recommended from Hardy? I bring this up because we are IB for Hardy and were looking forward to our children attending a local middle school after Hyde. This does give us pause even if the article noted that Wilson was working on correcting the issue with "Honors for All," but that appeared to be just for AP English and Biology.

Thanks to the OP for starting this Hyde thread; I also couldn't find a lot in searching after the swing space move.

DCUM is famous for Hardy hating (there will be a uniform/'urban school' posting soon on this thread now I'm sure). And it's hard to talk about Hardy without going into racial and gentrification and displacement dynamics. The school has been changing rapidly - and the current school is different than from 2015. In 2014/15, the school was around 10% IB and that was around the time when they started offering any honors or SEM classes at the school, and it was then or even more recently that they started having math options on par with Deal. This year was the first time Hardy did not qualify as a Title I school (where a majority of kids qualified for free and reduced lunch) - and next year, the incoming 6th grade class is expected to be at least 80% from "high performing" feeder schools (high test scores) (and around 50-60% or more IB -- including a change that it will be the first year Eaton will be majority feeding to Hardy, and in the next couple of years, the feeder populations from Stoddert and Eaton will be higher proportionally IB vs. OOB). Not meaning to make a commentary. Noting the changes.

[Anonymous]

IB Hyde family left for a new school this year because of swing. The teachers in third through fifth grade are phenomenol and the curriculum is rigorous. That was our experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IB Hyde family left for a new school this year because of swing. The teachers in third through fifth grade are phenomenol and the curriculum is rigorous. That was our experience.

Honest question: why did you leave because of the swing? I was under the impression that HA was offering buses to and from the Georgetown campus. Plenty of kids all over this country, including my SIL in MoCo has to put their 1st grader on a 20-30 minute bus ride.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a IB family that will be sending our child to Hyde for the first time next year and are looking forward to it. Would love to walk to the school, but understand the bus ride is just for another year and that is the trade off with getting a lovely new building. We do know of a good number of folks in Georgetown who left Hyde due to the renovation, but understand that each family has their own set of circumstances. We plan to be active volunteers and looking forward to getting to know others.

I was surprised to read the Wilson article in the Gtown Current that noted that 84% of incoming Deal students in 2015 were recommended by their teachers for AP classes but zero percent were recommended from Hardy? I bring this up because we are IB for Hardy and were looking forward to our children attending a local middle school after Hyde. This does give us pause even if the article noted that Wilson was working on correcting the issue with "Honors for All," but that appeared to be just for AP English and Biology.

Thanks to the OP for starting this Hyde thread; I also couldn't find a lot in searching after the swing space move.

Since very few (any?) 9th graders take AP classes, I don't understand why middle school teachers would be recommending (or not recommending) kids for AP classes at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IB Hyde family left for a new school this year because of swing. The teachers in third through fifth grade are phenomenol and the curriculum is rigorous. That was our experience.

Honest question: why did you leave because of the swing? I was under the impression that HA was offering buses to and from the Georgetown campus. Plenty of kids all over this country, including my SIL in MoCo has to put their 1st grader on a 20-30 minute bus ride.

NP - the swing space is in a not-great neighborhood. It's not unsafe, but it is surrounding by poor/working class DC residents. It's not what people who live IB for Hyde are accustomed to.

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Anonymous wrote:We are a IB family that will be sending our child to Hyde for the first time next year and are looking forward to it. Would love to walk to the school, but understand the bus ride is just for another year and that is the trade off with getting a lovely new building. We do know of a good number of folks in Georgetown who left Hyde due to the renovation, but understand that each family has their own set of circumstances. We plan to be active volunteers and looking forward to getting to know others.

I was surprised to read the Wilson article in the Gtown Current that noted that 84% of incoming Deal students in 2015 were recommended by their teachers for AP classes but zero percent were recommended from Hardy? I bring this up because we are IB for Hardy and were looking forward to our children attending a local middle school after Hyde. This does give us pause even if the article noted that Wilson was working on correcting the issue with "Honors for All," but that appeared to be just for AP English and Biology.

Thanks to the OP for starting this Hyde thread; I also couldn't find a lot in searching after the swing space move.

DCUM is famous for Hardy hating (there will be a uniform/'urban school' posting soon on this thread now I'm sure). And it's hard to talk about Hardy without going into racial and gentrification and displacement dynamics. The school has been changing rapidly - and the current school is different than from 2015. In 2014/15, the school was around 10% IB and that was around the time when they started offering any honors or SEM classes at the school, and it was then or even more recently that they started having math options on par with Deal. This year was the first time Hardy did not qualify as a Title I school (where a majority of kids qualified for free and reduced lunch) - and next year, the incoming 6th grade class is expected to be at least 80% from "high performing" feeder schools (high test scores) (and around 50-60% or more IB -- including a change that it will be the first year Eaton will be majority feeding to Hardy, and in the next couple of years, the feeder populations from Stoddert and Eaton will be higher proportionally IB vs. OOB). Not meaning to make a commentary. Noting the changes.

Do you think Hardy will eliminate the uniforms when the student population shifts to more IB?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a IB family that will be sending our child to Hyde for the first time next year and are looking forward to it. Would love to walk to the school, but understand the bus ride is just for another year and that is the trade off with getting a lovely new building. We do know of a good number of folks in Georgetown who left Hyde due to the renovation, but understand that each family has their own set of circumstances. We plan to be active volunteers and looking forward to getting to know others.

I was surprised to read the Wilson article in the Gtown Current that noted that 84% of incoming Deal students in 2015 were recommended by their teachers for AP classes but zero percent were recommended from Hardy? I bring this up because we are IB for Hardy and were looking forward to our children attending a local middle school after Hyde. This does give us pause even if the article noted that Wilson was working on correcting the issue with "Honors for All," but that appeared to be just for AP English and Biology.

Thanks to the OP for starting this Hyde thread; I also couldn't find a lot in searching after the swing space move.

Thanks for the response!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IB Hyde family left for a new school this year because of swing. The teachers in third through fifth grade are phenomenol and the curriculum is rigorous. That was our experience.

That's very encouraging, thank you. Do you know whether Hyde usually loses a lot of students during private school admission years? Or do a lot of kids stay through fifth grade?

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Anonymous wrote:We are a IB family that will be sending our child to Hyde for the first time next year and are looking forward to it. Would love to walk to the school, but understand the bus ride is just for another year and that is the trade off with getting a lovely new building. We do know of a good number of folks in Georgetown who left Hyde due to the renovation, but understand that each family has their own set of circumstances. We plan to be active volunteers and looking forward to getting to know others.

I was surprised to read the Wilson article in the Gtown Current that noted that 84% of incoming Deal students in 2015 were recommended by their teachers for AP classes but zero percent were recommended from Hardy? I bring this up because we are IB for Hardy and were looking forward to our children attending a local middle school after Hyde. This does give us pause even if the article noted that Wilson was working on correcting the issue with "Honors for All," but that appeared to be just for AP English and Biology.

Thanks to the OP for starting this Hyde thread; I also couldn't find a lot in searching after the swing space move.

Since very few (any?) 9th graders take AP classes, I don't understand why middle school teachers would be recommending (or not recommending) kids for AP classes at all.

This is a very weird statement?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IB Hyde family left for a new school this year because of swing. The teachers in third through fifth grade are phenomenol and the curriculum is rigorous. That was our experience.

That's very encouraging, thank you. Do you know whether Hyde usually loses a lot of students during private school admission years? Or do a lot of kids stay through fifth grade?

They had lost around 1/2 of the kids by 5th - same as Mann and Key - but it's been changing at all three schools in the past couple years, closer to 2/3 staying - and Stoddert also added a full class for 5th recently.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IB Hyde family left for a new school this year because of swing. The teachers in third through fifth grade are phenomenol and the curriculum is rigorous. That was our experience.

That's very encouraging, thank you. Do you know whether Hyde usually loses a lot of students during private school admission years? Or do a lot of kids stay through fifth grade?

They had lost around 1/2 of the kids by 5th - same as Mann and Key - but it's been changing at all three schools in the past couple years, closer to 2/3 staying - and Stoddert also added a full class for 5th recently.

Ah, thanks. I love the idea of having a neighborhood school in walking distance, especially during the years the kids are old enough to walk on their own. I don’t feel like we have to have a middle school plan written in stone, but I’m feeling pretty good about Hyde through fifth grade.

Do you (or does anyone) have any insight into Hyde’s outplacement? Is the school good at advocating for its students who apply to private school? Are those kids getting admitted to their schools of choice? There were some people on the private school board concerned about the admissions numbers from public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IB Hyde family left for a new school this year because of swing. The teachers in third through fifth grade are phenomenol and the curriculum is rigorous. That was our experience.

That's very encouraging, thank you. Do you know whether Hyde usually loses a lot of students during private school admission years? Or do a lot of kids stay through fifth grade?

They had lost around 1/2 of the kids by 5th - same as Mann and Key - but it's been changing at all three schools in the past couple years, closer to 2/3 staying - and Stoddert also added a full class for 5th recently.

Ah, thanks. I love the idea of having a neighborhood school in walking distance, especially during the years the kids are old enough to walk on their own. I don’t feel like we have to have a middle school plan written in stone, but I’m feeling pretty good about Hyde through fifth grade.

Do you (or does anyone) have any insight into Hyde’s outplacement? Is the school good at advocating for its students who apply to private school? Are those kids getting admitted to their schools of choice? There were some people on the private school board concerned about the admissions numbers from public schools.

Don’t expect outplacement help from a DCPS. They will send the transcript, teacher rev. But they will not pick up the phone for your kid. No public will.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IB Hyde family left for a new school this year because of swing. The teachers in third through fifth grade are phenomenol and the curriculum is rigorous. That was our experience.

Honest question: why did you leave because of the swing? I was under the impression that HA was offering buses to and from the Georgetown campus. Plenty of kids all over this country, including my SIL in MoCo has to put their 1st grader on a 20-30 minute bus ride.

We left because we got a lottery offer a Hardy feeder school closer to home, which made schedules easier to juggle. That was the only reason. Otherwise we would have stayed through fifth. We plan to stay through fifth at this other Hardy feeder school and have our children attend Hardy. As far as the third grade class last year, those students would have stayed at Hyde through fourth were it not for the move. At fifth there is attrition to charters and a few privates but less and less I believe and staying through fifth with the fabulous fifth grade teachers is considered a privilege. One of the fifth grade teachers is a history buff and takes them on tons of field trips.