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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who lives next to Hardy and walks by it every day when the kids are arriving, I can say that the school appears to be extremely diverse by this region's standards. [b]Lots of white, black and Asian kids. A smattering of Hispanics. The Asian cohort is actually outsized relative to their population in DC, IMHO. [/b]

It reminds me of my own extremely diverse public high school experience in Southern California (a good thing, imho). [/quote]

I'm a PP IB for Deal.  I was curious about this and just looked up the DCPS profiles for Hardy vs. Deal.  I see that the Asian % at Hardy (10%) is more than twice that at Deal (4%).

What's up with that?  Is there a neighborhood IB for Hardy that has a lot of Asians, or one of the feeders?  Just curious, and am 1/2 Asian myself.[/quote]

Well either more Asian students live IB, [b]or they lottery in from other parts of the city[/b]. Since few, if any, can lottery into Deal, there you will only find Asians who live in the attendance zone.

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PP here.  This doesn't explain why proportionally Asians would be over-represented among OOB students relative to any other demographic.  Unless there's some other explanation--e.g., is there some OOB neighborhood where a lot of Asian families lottery for Hardy?[/quote]

The Chinese Embassy has a number of staff and their families in a residential building just north of Hardy. Many of the kids go to Stoddert and feed into Hardy. A big plus for Stoddert/Hardy families is the huge number of diplomatic kids that end up in the public schools and enrich the environment - plus US kids whose families go overseas for a few years and return. Downside is that good friendships are made and then kids move away - lots of Skype and WhatsApp. We have had 14 close friends of my 3 children move on to new postings - Australia, France, South Africa, Luxembourg, Italy, Ecuador, China, Japan, Barbados, Ghana, Russia, Israel. [/quote]

This probably explains it. I definitely see groups of Asian kids walking on to the campus via the Wisconsin Ave gate in the AM. Like 5 to 8 kids per group and there's multiple groups. Once on campus, the Asian kids then break up once they see their other friends (white, black, Hispanic students).

Hardy seems like a pretty cool school. Lots of mixing of friend groups of kids from different backgrounds. All the students seem pretty chill, I've not observed any stupid shenanigans.[/quote]

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