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[quote=Anonymous]There are lots of differences, so it depends on how you define "unacceptable."

--Janney is mostly in-bound and thus pretty heterogeneous.  Hearst has many out-of-bounds families and is more diverse.

--Janney has 600+ students and is busting at the seams.  Some grade levels have 4 or more classes and each class packed.  Hearst has about 275 students, 2 classes her grade, most classes capped at 20 kids.

--Janney gets better test scores. Lots of potential reasons for this that I don't have time to lay out right now.

It really depends on what you are looking for in a school.  My kids happen to go to Hearst and we are very happy, so obviously I don't find it "unacceptable."  I appreciate the close-knit community, the small class size, the committed faculty, and the diverse population of the school.  Sure, I'd love the overall test scores to be better but my kids do very well academically.  We have friends and family at other DCPS schools and I see no difference in their kids' academic abilities.

We welcome all families, in-bound and out-of-bound, to be part of our community, but honestly, if your friend deems our school "unacceptable" without knowing anything about it other than some statistics, then she'd probably be happier elsewhere (and probably shouldn't have bought a house in-bound for Hearst, since there is no chance she will get into Janney OOB).[/quote]

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