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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I was you 13 years ago. We moved in-bounds for Key with our three children, saw them all go through and it was some of the happiest years of my life. We were active in the PTA and got to know a lot of families, it's a small school and you can feel like you know all of the parents and kids. Palisades in many ways is like a small town, if you know people at Key you'll be thick with the whole neighborhood. It's great.

But for the dark side: enrollment at Key starts dropping off around the third grade, the fifth grade is about a third the size of the kindergarten. The reason is anxiety about middle school. Very few families go to Hardy, and if you're leaving DCPS for charters or private your choices are a lot better if you leave for fourth or fifth grade.

A dozen years ago, middle school was a decade away for my kids. The neighbors warned me about Hardy, but I figured DCPS had changed so much in the prior decade that there is no telling what Hardy would be like a decade hence. While Hardy hasn't changed as much as we'd hoped in the past decade, there's no telling what the next decade holds.[/quote]

OP here:
Thanks - this is great insight! Are your kids at Hardy? Or did you go private/HRCS? Or did you completely leave the area?[/quote]

After much soul-searching, went private. Over $300K to put three kids through middle school. We tried to lottery into Deal or a charter but didn't get in, moving was the only alternative. Many of our friends left DC, some even left the country.[/quote]

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