<p>Other schools are adding IB as well, but to schools that desperately needs bodies/ improved grad rate.
Its too early to tell if it will help achievement.
In the past when new programs are added without majority buy in from the community, scores increase, but only because the new student body is new, the kids are still falling between the cracks, only somewhere else.
IB may be more successful than Stem programs that require everyone to take a relatively high level of math however, especially ludicrous considering the district math instruction in grade & middle school.</p>