Reply to Hardy IB Population

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Hardy IB Population"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Move on people. The bottom line is that next year Hardy will be mostly feeder or Brent. After that it will be more desirable than Deal bc of size, IB demographics.  Why are you loons hashing and rehashing ancient history?

Anyone who watched Hyde turn into a desirable IB school will understand that this is exactly what is happening at Hardy NOW.

[/quote]

Aaaand there is that claim again that the "IB demographics"'of glover park, palisades, burleith and Cleveland park are "more desirable than" the kids who live in Chevy Chase, AU park, sheperd park and friendship heights.   Really, now?

(And since i believe you are the same person who trots out the "2 million condo" in [the Four seasons only] in Georgetown fact, let's note that the number of teenagers living in condos in Georgetown -- ever -- is tiny. The number of teenagers living in 2 million homes in geogertown or Wesley heights and whose parents even consider dcps middle school is infinitesimal.) [/quote]

This is not a pissing match between the Deal catchment basin and the Hardy basin. Don't make it one. The previous poster made mention of the difference in size earlier and again here. The IB demographics are effectively the same for both areas. What differences there are, and there are some differences, are unlikely to materially matter for school quality.

Looking at the internal DCPS ratings of the feeders schools, you can see why people are bullish on Hardy. Let's leave it at that, shall we?

Hardy
Mann -- 94.75
Key -- 92.05
Stoddert -- 91.94 
Eaton -- 90.23
Hyde -- 79.18

Deal
Janney -- 94.55
Lafayette -- 92.92
Murch -- 89.24
Hearst -- 77.1
Shephard -- 79 (last year's number)
Bancroft -- 52 (last year's number)

[/quote]

The demographics of the cachement area may be similar but one area feels that Deal works for their kids while the other area avoids its public middle school.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics