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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  It's numerically impossible for Hardy to become a neighborhood school.

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Please give us your definition of "neighborhood school", I always thought it meant "the school in your neighborhood".

Does it have to be at least 75% ib for KSM to deem it acceptable?[/quote]

Deal is 65% IB and it seems that most KSM parents would kill for the chance for their kids to go there.

Looking at the size of the "catchments," if the same percentage of IB families continued to Hardy as continue to Deal, Hardy would be about 25% IB. But they don't, Hardy has about 55% of the rate of Deal and thus gets about 15% IB.

How about this for a theory: families that are in-bounds for Deal are pretty much the same as those that are in-bounds for Hardy. Within each group, there are three types: those who would never go public for middle school, those who would go public no matter what, and those who would only go public if the school was right. Does it stretch belief to conclude that the third group represents about 45% of the families? And that one of the things that third group looks at is the IB/OOB composition? And that over the past four years, as Deal has attracted more IB families, it has become more attractive to those third groupers? And that the same dynamic can't play out at Hardy, because there just aren't enough IB families? And that there can't be more IB families, because the feeder schools are all overstuffed as it is?
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