70 6th grade spots given to OOB at Hardy

[Anonymous]

So DCPS posted their lottery dashboard (thank you, DCPS! What can't charters do this?) and it shows that Hardy awarded 6th grade lottery spots to 70 students. How big is the entire entering class supposed to be? I find it strange to award so many spots before having a good sense of how my IB children will be enrolling. When the lottery was open I thought I remembered it showing a much lower number of available spots. I wanna say 30. Insight anyone?

[Anonymous]

OP here. I mistyped. 80 OOB spots were awarded.

[Anonymous]

Each class is about 130 kids. So about 50 are expected to be IB. But that number can change. And not everyone who was awarded an OOB slot will take it.

I don't remember anything about the 30 available slots.

[Anonymous]

That's PP for the class size estimate.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each class is about 130 kids. So about 50 are expected to be IB. But that number can change. And not everyone who was awarded an OOB slot will take it.

I don't remember anything about the 30 available slots.

50 come from feeders. Different than IB.

[Anonymous]

I really think that between Key, Mann, Hyde, Stoddert (and maybe Eaton?) we can expect many more children enrolling from feeders so I'm bummed so many oob spots were awarded in the initial lottery. Not because I don't want oob, but because I don't want huge classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really think that between Key, Mann, Hyde, Stoddert (and maybe Eaton?) we can expect many more children enrolling from feeders so I'm bummed so many oob spots were awarded in the initial lottery. Not because I don't want oob, but because I don't want huge classes.

Calm down, I would be surprised if 40 spots offered accept. There are very few middle school options, people put schools on their just because they can.

[Anonymous]

40 fewer kids applied to Hardy this year than last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think that between Key, Mann, Hyde, Stoddert (and maybe Eaton?) we can expect many more children enrolling from feeders so I'm bummed so many oob spots were awarded in the initial lottery. Not because I don't want oob, but because I don't want huge classes.

Calm down, I would be surprised if 40 spots offered accept. There are very few middle school options, people put schools on their just because they can.

I hope you're right because the submitted budget is based on a projected enrollment of 380, so roughly 127 students per grade. As Wilson's budget showed last year they were funded for 80 fewer students than they received funding for. I don't want that to happen to Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Sorry. It's early. I meant to say Wilson had 80 More students than they received funding for.

[Anonymous]

How do you get to the lottery dashboard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you get to the lottery dashboard?

Scroll to the bottom.

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Learn+About+Schools/Lottery+and+Admissions:+Apply+to+Our+Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think that between Key, Mann, Hyde, Stoddert (and maybe Eaton?) we can expect many more children enrolling from feeders so I'm bummed so many oob spots were awarded in the initial lottery. Not because I don't want oob, but because I don't want huge classes.

Calm down, I would be surprised if 40 spots offered accept. There are very few middle school options, people put schools on their just because they can.

I don't follow your logic, PP. If there are very few middle school options, wouldn't those OOB spots at Hardy be prized?

Every kid who match for 6th grade at Hardy either ranked Hardy first or drew a bad number in the lottery and was wait listed at every public and charter middle school ranked above Hardy. The MySchoolDC unified lottery has reduced wait list movement dramatically. Where are the 40 kids you think will decline their Hardy spots planning to go?

Furthermore, why won't the 17 kids on the wait list for 6th grade at Hardy be offered the spots that are declined?

[Anonymous]

^^Many, even OOB for Hardy, will choose to go to private schools.