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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have actual knowledge on this issue.

The current 7th graders (last year's 6th graders) are around mid-20's IB percentage. The "Feeder School plus Brent" percentage is considerably higher. (The latter is the number people should care about; the former is for the harpies.)

The tipping point will be next year, not this year. The school will go from 15% IB to about 20% IB this year. (Low-end estimate is 19%.)

Next year's 6th grade class will be a lot more IB. The school overall will be around 25% and the 6th grade, in particular, will be around 35-45%. The school will be more than half "Feeder plus Brent." [/quote]

What about 6th grade this year:  % of feeders plus Brent?  Unlike others, I couldn't care less about "true IB," as high-achieving feeders are most important.[/quote]

I disagree.  Hardy's issue has been lack of takeup by its target service area, i.e., the in boundary area.  The Hardy IB area has some of the city's top performing elementary schools, Mann and Key.  The parents there have high expectations, and the schools  enjoy such strong community support that there are very few OOB spots.  At the same time, Hardy's cachement area also includes some feeder schools that have a lot of OOB spots.  Indeed, the student profile is closer to the historical Hardy population, where those feeder schools, while performing measurably below the KM level, still are a much better alternative than most OOB students would  otherwise have.  Therefore it's a complete no brainer that OOB students attending Hardy feeders would go on to Hardy, as Hardy is clearly better than their DCPS middle school alternative.  Indeed, it would be surprising (and possibly fatal to Hardy) if OOB feeder students were bailing out rather than go to Hardy.  The more important measure of Hardy's hopefully improvng quality is to get the IB number up significantly, which will indicate that IB parents no longer feel that Hardy is a qualitative step backwards from elementary, but rather at least a comparable quality experience for their kids.  [/quote]

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