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I see your point. Two different sets of numbers. There may not be enough in boundary students to fill all available seats, but of the available seats, 14% are filled with IB students. I get it.

In contrast to those numbers. The ib percentages for the ward 3 elementary schools that feed Hardy are: Mann-83%, Stoddert 76%, Key 87%.

The numbers seem to indicate that the in boundary families send their kids to the ib DCPS elementary schools but not to the ib DCPS middle school. [/quote]

You've hit onto something, but it's not what you think you've hit onto.

Compare Hardy with Deal. Deal has an official capacity of 980. It has eight feeder schools -- Eaton, Hearst, Janney, Oyster, Bancroft, Lafayette, Shepherd -- that had a combined population of 3,837 in 2010-2011. That's almost four students in the feeder schools for each slot in the middle school. Hardy has official capacity of 540 and four feeder schools -- Key, Mann, Stoddert and Hyde-Addison -- with a combined population of 911 -- about 1.7 kids in the feeder school for each space in middle school.

Deal has about two and half times as many kids in its feeder schools relative to its size as Hardy does. Deal is 35% OOB. If Hardy had the same percentage of IB kids attend as Deal it would be about 25% IB. There is no room for growth in the Hardy feeder schools -- Key was 14% over capacity last year, Stoddert 8% and Mann 30%.  It's numerically impossible for Hardy to become a neighborhood school.

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