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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what exactly should Principal Pride at Hardy be doing differently in order to attract parents at Key to send them to Hardy?

As has been said for years, if most of the 4th grade at Key went on to Hardy, it would drive the average test scores up immediately.  The same can be said of the other feeder schools to Hardy.  Would advanced classes help?[/quote]

They have honors classes and advanced math but parents report they are very crowded. Hardy, like all DCPS middle schools, will be getting additional funding for STEM activities and clubs (assuming hte Council funds it.

It is just a very slow process. For 2016-17 Hardy offered fewer round 1 seats for OOB students (25-6th /10-7th /10-8th) in the lottery but for 17-18 it has offered 25/30/30.

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Stoddert and Mann have been bigger adopters of Hardy so far.  Not this fall, but next fall (this year's 4th grade cohort), when the Eaton feeds to Hardy, it is expected to be a game changer.  With grade sizes of 70 kids, even if half go to Hardy, that will be around 1/3 of the class size, if all went, it would be 1/2 the current class size.  And Eaton has strong PARCC scores, 14% FARMS.  Will likely force the addition of more advanced classes (ie. more sections with lower class sizes of advanced offerings) and some other adaptations faster quickly.  Right now, there's been a chicken & egg situation - where some of the adaptations can be asked of the Principal, but some of the flexibility is based on performance - the coming shift could contribute to the push of Hardy a higher DCPS performance category where the school gets more ability to make adaptations and changes.  [/quote]

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