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[quote=Anonymous]I, for one, do not put a lot of faith in test scores to judge a school's academic strength.  A school with across the board high SES kids is going to have higher scores than one with a mixed demographic population.  In some ways I prefer the latter because of the diversity.  I think Janney is a terrific school, but there is not much diversity there at all.

Having said all that, Hardy has a lot of ground to make up to be nearly as good as Deal.  They do not have the same wealth of offerings or facillities and the teaching quality is very inconsistent.  The lack of a neighborhood cohort is a huge deal for IB families, but it's hard to attract them in large numbers until the program is beefed up. For the vast majority of kids, Deal would be the school of choice.  I think most Hardy parents, if given the choice, would decamp pretty quickly to Deal.

The city does need a new attractive middle school, however, and Hardy is the best candidate right now.  My advice to DCPS is -- make it attractive to IB families.  They will go where the programs are strongest.  Do not rely on them to make the school better.  If you build it, they will come!  You have not built it yet though, which is why IB families are not enrolling in large numbers.  Make the program attractive and the numbers will shift.[/quote]

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