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Anonymous wrote:"I understood your point, PP. I was taking it to its logical conclusion: Don't pass on Hardy because of its lousy DCCAS scores. Pass on Hardy because of its 55% FARMs rate and 13% IB rate. "


Suppose the IB rate for 2014-2015 comes in at 15%, and the FARMS rate is down to 51%? Would that (combined with academic improvements) convince you to try it?

Some of you don't have a lot of confidence in your own children if you think that the fact of them going to school with a bunch of poor kids is going to somehow ruin their lives or wreck their academic careers. My kid went to Hardy, and it had the opposite effect - it made him a better student and better able to navigate the diversity of rich and poor and black and white the exist in DCPS and in the real world.

That's fine, but its a pretty low bar to say that a school won't ruin your kid's life or wreck her academic career. Shouldn't we demand better than that. IMO diversity is fine but as a priority for us, it takes a back seat to rigorous academics and rich course and extracurricular offerings.

+ 1 !

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Anonymous wrote:Really interesting how open people are about buying/renting an efficiency in Tenleytown (while continuing to live in non-Deal neighborhoods) so that their kids can go to Deal. No doubt these same parents would cry bloody murder if someone illegally attended their child's elementary school using an aunt's address, etc. I think Deal could trim quite a few kids if it could find a way to identify families "living" in efficiency apartments.

There are a number of kids at Deal who don't even live in DC, rather in PG. They snuck into Deal elementary feeders and then rolled right into Deal.

On the list of Deal residency cheaters I would think that renters of Tenleytown efficiencies have to be pretty low.

Nah, they use a relative's or friend's DC address to get into DCPS. Sometimes this works to get into a better school or feeder pattern directly but sometimes they have to play the lottery using the fictional address.

I'm the OP from the other Hardy thread.

Frankly, DCPS clearly has the data available. The total enrollment for the current year is included in the data sets I used. Anything finer than total enrollment is not available from the link.

Since this is a thread about Hardy, here are the current numbers:

Total enrollment this year: 386
6th graders: 130
7th: 119
8th: 137

Last year:
Enrollment: 371
6th: 110
7th: 134
8th: 127

2012-2013:
Enrollment: 404
6th: 131
7th: 129
8th: 144

2011-2012:
Enrollment: 412
6th: 103
7th: 139
8th: 170

I could go back further (somewhat) using unedited enrollment, but this is what we have at present.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS has not published the data for any school.

DCPS is late this year. It's not Hardy's administration's fault.

PP here: That's what I thought. I guess the basher thinks that all DCPS data is being held up because of Hardy, or something.

This is true. Does anyone know why DCPS is so late this year? We are in April; the school year is almost done!

Anonymous wrote:DCPS has not published the data for any school.

DCPS is late this year. It's not Hardy's administration's fault.

PP here: That's what I thought. I guess the basher thinks that all DCPS data is being held up because of Hardy, or something.