Niche promotes this disparity as a selling point by telling parents who use Niche’s research reports that using the Niche website requires “no heavy lifting” on the part of parents and that it “analyzes the data so you don’t have to,” while at the same time offering raw data and tailored solutions to commerical enterprises like the real estate industry, an industry that has helped foster segregation, in Virginia, for decades.

"[3] The school has acknowledged this problematic past and made efforts to distance[clarification needed] itself from that history.

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,[9] where it now serves as an administrative building.

Hazel had been a Lieutenant in the Byrd Machine, which vehemently opposed school integration via its program of Massive Resistance against the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.

In 1998, Flint Hill acquired parcels of property totaling 30 acres (12 ha) within one mile of the existing campus.

In 2010, Flint Hill introduced the 1:1 technology program, providing all students with Apple Inc. computers and tablets.

[12] In 2019, Flint Hill began fundraising for a middle school facility designed to educate 7th and 8th grade students.

[15] The Upper School has three continually published, on-campus student publications: The Flint Hill View (news, arts, sports, opinion, and editorial newspaper),[16] The Rough Draft (literary and arts magazine),[17] and The Iditarod (yearbook, formerly entitled The Talon).