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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy seems to be doing a poor job at preparing kids for 9th at Wilson, private or anywhere. [/quote]

Not really. 9th graders who applied to private schools last year (or to financial support in independent schools) scored high/very high (80 and above)  at SSAT, most of them without any tutoring/parental support (except for the math test preparation after school class offered by the Chair of the Hardy Math Dept.).

If SSAT is a good indicator of academic performance (which I think it is), I can say that my DC and his friends were more prepared than his ES friends who were at Holy Trinity ad British School for middle school (I only have first-hand information on friends'scores in these two schools). DC was accepted to 3/3 independent schools we applied to, and was offered partial tuition support to one of them.

Of course we are talking about good/very good students. I really cannot talk about average students. [/quote]

I can confirm very high math SSAT scores for Hardy students who made it to Geometry in 8th grade. [/quote]

Our experience is the opposite.  DS is now a junior at a DC private.   His cohort of kids who went to upper NW elementary schools, and kids with parents who were very involved in their education at Hardy (which at the time was a smaller % at Hardy than, at say, Deal), ended up split three ways - Wilson, Walls, and privates.  I'm not in touch with every single kid, but as a group they are all doing very well.  I know Hardy did a great job preparing my DS for high school, and when I talk to others they feel the same way.  Hardy does not spoon feed kids - and that means they learn to be their own advocates for their education.  That puts them in good standing in high school.[/quote]

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