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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was never anticipated that Hardy would be a solely IB school.  Even just after completion, Rhee and others stated that even if all IB kids were to attend there would still be ample space for OOB.  The feeder school population, while growing, is still not huge like Janney or Lafayette.[/quote]

The obsession with IB vs OOB numbers are misguided because at least at some schools, the "feeder" schoolkids are not from the IB zone anyways because they lotteried in at elementary,  possibly as late as grades 4 or 5. So in the end the numbers don't tell much about where the kids live at all. Maybe in a few years they will but from our school, most of the fifth graders now who go to Hardy are not from the neighborhood. One should pick the school based on a visit rather than these projections,  with the assumption that the feeder school numbers are slowly increasing.[/quote

If so, why the focus on OOB v IB numbers then? Maybe there is a slight difference in preparation if coming from a feeder v unknown school but that is not a guarantee and does not change much if Hardy has an advanced track anyways.

PP, we are all aware that feeder kids are often OOB.[/quote][/quote]

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