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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Sorry about the confusion.  Meant to say that our experience was the opposite of the PP who said Hardy kids were unprepared for high school, and the same as PP who said Hardy prepared them well.  To summarize:  Hardy prepared my child and his peers extremely well for middle school.[/quote]

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