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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess the private schools in DC really want Hardy's current situation to remain -- there'd be a huge block of parents who would be sending their kids to Hardy rather than paying $35-40k per year at private school.  Not saying any would fail but at least admission application numbers would start to fall.  I'd be interested to see data on the % of kids who attend Sidwell/Cathedral/Maret/GDS etc. who are from the Deal area versus the % who are from the Hardy area.  I expect the % of DC resident kids in middle school at these schools is much lower for those who live in the Deal zone, perhaps much lower.[/quote]

Sidwell, Cathedral and Maret don't admit new students for sixth grade except to fill vacancies, to have a decent shot of getting in you have to apply at fourth grade or earlier for middle school. So not a lot of Hardy IB kids there, or not from families that weren't thinking private from early on. GDS admits a fair number of IB Hardy kids for sixth, as do schools like Field, Lowell, Sheridan, WIS, WES, Burke and Landon. I'm an IB Hardy parent who went private, those schools plus the Catholics are where the kids who entered kindergarten thinking they'd go DCPS all the way ended up.  Plus of course Basis and Latin.

At my kids private there are a fair number of IB Hardy kids, but lots more who are IB Deal. So it's hard to say how much of an impact Hardy improving would have.[/quote]

I think the Mann 5th grade numbers are telling on this issue.  A PP said that last year there were 19 5th graders at Mann and this year 44.  That indicates that there are parents thinking Hardy is an option that chose not to leave Mann a year early for private.[/quote]

Same thing at Stoddert. We went from one 5th grade last year, to two this year in order to accommodate the number of returning students. Basis and Latin will continue to claim some Stoddert students--mostly those who have older siblings who have already gone the Basis or Latin route--but in chatting with parents of 4th graders this year, I am hearing a lot more who say they are planning on Hardy unless somehow it implodes. I guess the PARCC scores could shake some of that confidence. We'll soon see...[/quote]

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