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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't many Mann and Key students go to private after 4th grade? If so, 50% of the 5th-grade class really isn't the relevant number. You should be looking at % of the 3rd and 4th grade classes. [/quote]

Mann's fifth-grade class last year was 19 students. This year: 42 students. 100% of third- and fourth-graders returned. Next year's fifth-grade class is supposed to be 55 kids. [/quote]

One of the ex-mann parents at our private said a lot of the 3rd/4th attrition at Mann was because of the trailers, now gone.

Our younger DC is in 4th and we are watching Hardy, but applying to Latin this year. A former Mann now Hardy parent confided they have to constantly push the Hardy administration to follow through on all honors and other advanced offerings that were promised, and that what is labeled honors looks like grade level work to them.[/quote]

The person who gave you the information is either not a well-informed parent, or does not have an advanced kid in math. Starting from January, a sub-set of honors students who did well in the first quarter,  plus some students from the "standard classes" who showed talent and drive to learn in math,  will be transferred to a separate class and accelerated to pre-algebra (7th grade-level curriculum) . Those who do well in this class are then enrolled into 8th grade algebra (in their 7th grade) and can then move on to geometry in 8th grade (high school curriculum).

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So no advanced math until January? When did it happen for last year's 6th graders? Did they wait for the parents to push it?[/quote]

Honors math starts at the beginning of the school year. Accelerated math starts in January. Honors follows the 6th grade curriculum. Accelerated math follows the 7th grade DC 
curriculum (for 6th grade students).

What do you mean by advanced?

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