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[quote=Anonymous]Glad we are back to the initial Hardy question. But as an earlier poster showed (with some reasonable) statistics, Hardy is a very different school from 3-4 years ago.

*PTA Power* - The PTA raised 30K in 2016-2017. Today they are pulling in 75K+. This is an indirect measure of the student body/IB - but quite revealing.

*Demographics* With the Eaton addition, there is a big bump up of the IB/feeder students. Eaton + Stoddert will be the backbone of the school. This is important as Eaton + Stoddert have many upper middle class families (income between 100-250k) that will have a hard time affording privates, but like living in the city. (This is a problem with Key families, its not clear why they live in the city - very few city amenities - having lost their only grocery store - and extremely high incomes - the only amenity they use is Key). Stoddert alone wasn't enough to flip the school; Easton changed the game.

*Growth Trends* The school is growing again. This upcoming year, the school is likely gaining 70 students (with 700K more in funding). This is in-spite of at-risk funding falling from 177K to 30K.

*Extracurriculars* There are more sports and after school activities than before. While they aren't deal yet - they have theater and highly successful athletic teams (almost every team placed 2nd to deal in the playoffs last year)

*Demographics* The school is getting whiter - it is starting to look like the neighborhood. (This is a fact, not a judgement)

*Wild Card* They opened up a Trader Joe's a block away. Gentrification isn't done.[/quote]

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