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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy?  It is only 29 more lottery seat offers than 2 years ago.  A small drop in IB enrollment and/or an uptick in people turning it down could get you that.[/quote]

No it’s about 75 more waitlist offers than 2 years ago [/quote]

Here is the waitlists data until now for the past 3 years for Hardy and Deal

HARDY                Deal

101                      2
27                        1
28                        0

So there has been a huge jump in waitlist movement at Hardy, almost 500% or 5 fold this year while nothing has changed at Deal.

You can’t say this is due to fed layoffs and the economic uncertainty, because it would affect both schools and not just 1.

I doubt that it is a data error.  It is such a huge change and admin at Hardy would definately notice this and check before reporting it to my school.dc

Common sense and deduction is it’s because of the feeder change.  Kids now have to go to MA and it’s not a desirable feeder.  So this affects things upstream like Hardy.  This happens all the time in the burbs when there are boundary changes to a pyramid and schools in that pyramid become less desirable.

Hardy will fill their classes but there is going to be alot more OOB kids who then pull in siblings OOB who then all go to MA further contributing to significant OOB numbers, not to mention current OOB MA kids pulling in siblings to MA each year.

MA has not gotten a lot of IB buy in and now 3 years later it’s obvious how the school is shaping up, presenting a clearer picture to families who have options, of which some are no longer choosing this pyramid.
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You keep repeating the same pit h but with so many inaccuracies.

First, MacArthur has only existed 2 years, not 3, and it hasn't "shaped" yet into a final form as te first Hardy class feeding exclusively to MacArthur has yet to start!

Second, the last two years of lottery participants also knew that the feed was MacArthur.  The feed information has not changed in the last 3 years.

If people are turning down Hardy, that's their loss. My DC had a fabulous experience.

If this year's number of offers is high because they are greatly expanding 6th Grade, that would be a problem and DCPS's fault.  It is not the school's goal to increase enrollment significantly, as I understand it, but who know DCPS's plan.  If I were to receive an offer, I would ask about grade size and whether it has bern increased.

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