The 1990–91 academic year began on the new campus with 65 faculty members and an enrollment of 425 students, in grades K–12. Hazel, Jr., then acquired the school and reorganized it as a nonprofit independent day school. A group of educational and civic leaders from Northern Virginia led by John T. In 1990, the new academic building was only partially finished and funding for its completion was in doubt. In 1986 Flint Hill purchased 13 acres (5.3 ha) of property several blocks away at the corner of Chain Bridge and Jermantown Road, and the Miller House was transported to the new campus, where it now serves as an administrative building. Originally, students attended classes in the Miller House, an estate home belonging to the Francis Pickens Miller family. For example, one of the school's five core values is "respect and value all equally." Additionally, an annual event formerly called "Founder's Day" has been renamed "Flint Hill Day" in order to make clear that the founding vision of the school does not align with who the school is today. The school has acknowledged this problematic past and made efforts to distance itself from that history. Fairfax County Public School Assistant Superintendent George Pope remarked to the Washington Post, "We've just about put that school in business." Of those initial grants, 44 went to students attending the Flint Hill School. In 1959 the Fairfax County School Board approved tuition grants for 60 students to attend private schools and thereby avoid desegregated public schools. Board of Education, and the Virginia Assembly enacted the Stanley Plan, a package of thirteen statutes designed to ensure Virginia's public schools remained segregated.
declared a policy of Massive Resistance against compliance with Brown v. In 1956, the year of the school's founding, Virginia Senator Harry F.
Board of Education decision holding that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The school's origins date back to the state of Virginia's resistance to the Supreme Court of the United States' 1954 Brown v. History įlint Hill School was founded in 1956 by Don Niklason as the Flint Hill Preparatory School, a co-educational day school with 18 students in grades K–8. In 2021, Niche ranked Flint Hill School 9 out of 2489 private schools in the United States, making it the best in Virginia. The school has separate upper and lower school campuses about a mile apart in Fairfax County, approximately 20 miles (32 km) from Washington, D.C.
Private Independent, day, college-preparatoryįlint Hill School, founded in 1956, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school, in Oakton, Virginia, serving grades JK– 12.
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