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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would only listen to parents of students that actually go to Hardy. [/quote]

Hardy's improved a bit in the last 5 years.  That said, I don't know any parent, given the choice of Deal or Hardy for his/her kid, who would voluntarily choose Hardy.  That may seem harsh, but it's reality.[/quote]

That is a fictional choice so in fact you don't know any parent who has made that choice.

And there is this question - are you a Hardy parent or not?  It's an important question because when you actually talk to a Hardy parent most of them are enthusiastic about the school while the haters are too insecure about their own parenting to try it.[/quote]

It wasn't actually a fictional choice. Until this year, Eaton students could choose whether to attend Deal or Hardy.

As a current Eaton family, I'm watching with interest to see what this year's 5th graders do. [/quote]

The Hardy principal at recent open houses addressed some of the projected impact based on what current 5th grade families are indicating -- that feeder kids alone coming from the 5 feeders (adding Eaton) next year - will likely get the 6th grade up to 100 to 130 students (which has been traditionally a class size of 130, although they could increase up to 150 with current space, which they may consider).  If you do the math, backing the Eaton cohort's PARCC scores out of the Deal totals -- http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Deal+Middle+School and then adding them to the Hardy scores (plus adding in a big expected jump of kids attending from Stoddert (and some but less from Mann, Key, Hyde) - http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Hardy+Middle+School -- hard to imagine based on the big difference now, but they are going to get get close to alignment quickly.

Just in the past few years, the demographics of kids coming from the feeders has already changed from around 10 percent to closer to 50 percent ...  so keep in mind past test scores (even last years reported scores), and reports from families attending in the past, are already dated.  I know people have said for the past two decades that Hardy is changing, but the stats are starting to show this change.

Hardy, as a small school, has high marks for things like every student reporting the teachers and principals know them and they have a caring adult to talk with, having a close friend, etc etc.  For things like soccer, they seem to have done something to accommodate every kids who wants to play at some level, which is also a benefit of a smaller school (with the deficit of not having a real on campus soccer field!)

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