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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The true problem here is that alot of in boundary elementary schools have alot of out of boundary slots due to maybe kids going private or the neighborhood doesn't have alot of kids in it. That being said DEAL is at capacity with all there feeder schools. Why is Hardy such a big deal there are specialized schools all around the city and becasue Hardy was renovated the neighborhood feel its too good for OOB students?[/quote]

Ah, yes, it always livens up the Hardy debate to throw in a blanket statement that is contrary to the facts and then take a swipe at the neighborhood on the way by.  All of the the feeder schools are jam-packed: Stoddert was 8% over capacity last year, Key was 15% and Mann a whopping 30%. None of those schools have accepted meaningful numbers of OOB kids in years -- last year over 500 kids applied to Key in the OOB lottery and zero were accepted.

As was pointed out in another thread:

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1. Hardy is too big for the area that it serves. It has a capacity of 540 and a feeder school population of 911 (2010-11), or 1.7 kids in the feeder schools for every seat in the middle school. Compare to Deal which has a capacity of 980 and a feeder school population of 3,837 -- a ratio of 3.9:1. And Deal is still 39% out of boundary.

2. From 2005 to 2008 the school was moved to the Hamilton School in Northeast while the Burleith building was renovated.

3. Until very recently it was easy to get into Deal or Latin if you wanted to go public. Until recently Latin was located at Ward Circle, closer to most of the feeder schools than Hardy.

4. Until July 2010 the school had a principal who required all students -- in-boundary and out -- to go through an application process. 
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Schools develop communities, and it takes time for those patterns to change.

As for the academics, 14:37 has it right. Last year I went to open houses at both Deal and Hardy. The difference in quality and ambition of the academics is breathtaking.[/quote]

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