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Activities like musicals, Family Heritage night, STEM night, Eagle Trot Fun Run, field trips, and more contributed to an exceptional experience for my daughter. I am very grateful for this school and our teachers!

Excellent teachers and excellent special education program. The school has gone through some leadership changes but the culture, community, and committed teacher corps is unchanged. We have loved sending our kids here.

There is very little social emotional support at this school not a well-balanced demographic either that is representative of other schools in the area. Most teachers do the bare minimum, and the AAP counselor is more of a gate keeper than an educator. Go at you own peril.

Worst school your child may enter, worst.

I am a recently graduated alumni. No words can do this school justice. It has provided me with all the tools I will need through out life (within reason :)

Some of the courses taught are reasonable, but this school is not a great fit for academically gifted students. The course material tends to be repetitive and a lot of busiwork, even in the honors and AP courses. My children were challenged with the workload, but not with the sophistication and thought-provoking nature of instruction, more just the myriad of often boring assignments that needed to be handed in for grades. Over the years, I think my children learned more from their own personal pursuit of knowledge than they did from attending this school. That certainly makes me question the investment. Also, Flint Hill administration is horrible! They do NOT act in the best interest of students and take a my-way-or-the-highway approach. They are incapable of understanding nuance, don’t act in sophisticated way, and can’t handle basic communications with decorum and professionalism. They also treat athletes and kids whose parents donate to the school very differently than other kids - definitely a two-tiered system. They don’t have policies for disciplinary actions and make up everything as they go along. Don Paige, director of the Upper School, was a HUGE problem. He is now gone (my guess is he was pushed out) so maybe it is starting to come around but the problems with the administration were pretty deep seated when my kids were there.