At the January Math Counts middle school DC Competition (Jan. 2015). Hardy's team made the 5th place , same as St Patrick's.

St Albans got the first place, followed by Sidwell, GDS, St Anselm.

More than 20 DC school (private, charter, public) participated.

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who perceives the OP's original post as racist troll bait?

Any Hardy thread is troll bait.

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who perceives the OP's original post as racist troll bait?

I saw it as "Look! Feeder numbers are higher this year!" Nothing wrong with that.

When Horace Mann and Key numbers go significantly higher to Hardy will be the time to celebrate.

I look at the houses around Mann and I think there's no way these people are all going to stay in dcps. Hell, I recently moved to a much less dance neighborhood IB for Deal and when we were introducing ourselves to new people we found many families sheepishly saying they were at independent schools "but Deal is great. Preppyville Academy was just a great fit for Schmayden."


It seems to me that Hardy could be the nicest DCPS middle school and people in the swanky environs still wouldn't use it.

Sure there are some multimillion-dollar houses IB for Mann, but there is a lot of modest housing IB for Mann along Massachusetts Ave. And there is a lot of modest housing IB for Key along MacArthur. The complaint of the OOB Hardy families back in the Rhee days was that Rhee was meeting with the IB parents and doing their bidding. Why would those parents go to the trouble for a school they had no intention of attending? The truth is a lot of those families would attend Hardy if it were comparable to Deal. There are lots of wealthy families that live IB for Deal, but Deal is still bursting at the seams. Massachusetts Avenue is the boundary between Deal and Hardy. On the north side of Mass lots of kids go to Deal, on the south side of Mass basically zero kids go to Hardy. The difference is the schools.