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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - thank you so much for this analysis.  I'm not IB to Hardy, but we are looking at it as an OOB family.

I am going to be so bold as to ask if you could please do a similar analysis for Stuart-Hobson.  I am not an economist by training, and I've been struggling to let more rational, objective measures help guide our MS search.

This analysis about Hardy is just the type of thing that is needed for all families as we navigate DC's schools.[/quote]

OP here.

I'm not ignoring other posters. I will address them (I hope) in due time. Some of these questions/requests deserve more consideration than a flippant reply.

To this poster, my guess from eyeballing the data is that a similar story is true at Stuart-Hobson. (I wanted to include SH when putting the data together but I could only get so much done in the two hours before work.) This is just a guess, but I'll pull them later today and provide a brief conclusion. [/quote]

Ed researcher here, and although I haven't crunched those particular numbers, I'd expect OP's original finding holds in general system wide. Kids from MC white families generally do just fine wherever they are placed. The exception is that there's not good evidence for cases in which there are very few such students in a school -- it's hard to do the analysis because the sample sizes are small.

It's also true that kids from disadvantaged backgroundss do WORSE when they attend schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Economically diverse schools have a beneficial effect on kids from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. (Takeaway -- if you aren't wealthy, the best thing to do for your kids education is buy the cheapest house in the best neighborhood. Assuming test scores as a metric, of course -- this doesn't take into account the difficulties of e.g. being a minority in a majority white school.)[/quote]

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