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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy is a great middle school option, with a lot less work for kids who are challenged at every level.[/quote]

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PP here. Actually, my DC is at BASIS, but we are in the Hardy district and plan to send more humanities-minded DC2 there. I suggested it because there is usually not a waiting list and it is a solid school where it is easier to succeed, and where they do not hold you back for failing a class.[/quote]

However there is a waiting list for all grades at Hardy for fall 2015. I think the only DCPS middle school (not EC) without a wait list is Brookland.[/quote]

There are lots of DCPS middle schools with essentially no wait lists, at least after Round 1. Summing up all the grades 6-8 for schools where those were the only grades, the number of kids on the WL were:

0: Kramer, Sousa
1: Eliot-Hine, Hart, Johnson
2: Jefferson, Brookland
6: Kelly Miller
66: Hardy
139: Stuart-Hobson
299: Deal

There are really only 3 stand-alone DCPS middle schools that are at all hard to get into from OOB, and given that Hardy offered 100 OOB seats (S-H offered 9 and Deal offered none) I might even reduce that down to 2.

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Does anyone know why SH would be more desirable than Hardy?  Doesn't Hardy have better scores?  It's hard to understand from this distance (not on the Hill) considering that Watkins feeds into SH but Brent does not.  [/quote]

The main reason SH has a longer waitlist is that it offered 7 OOB seats in the Round 1 lottery and Hardy offered 100 OOB seats.  It's not an indication of how many people applied to each school in the lottery or where they ranked them.  With that said, for families on the Hill and east of the river the commute to SH is way better than to Hardy.  If you're not worried about high school (ie, you're willing to move or go private, or you think your kid can get into Banneker/McKinley Tech/SWW/Ellington) then the Wilson feed you get from Hardy is less of a big deal.  [/quote]

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