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* ''[[Blue Exorcist|Ao No Exorcist]]'''s True Cross Academy's cram school is this, the principal is a [[Son Of Satan]].
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': At Mahora Academy, you need rock climbing gear to traverse the library, the [[School Festival]] involves [[Humongous Mecha]] and zeppelins, the majority of the staff (from what we've seen) are secretly wizards, the center of campus is the [[World Tree]], and if a student there isn't supernatural, paranormal, superscience, or otherwise out of the ordinary, it probably means they have motivational issues. Even the [[Muggles]] are bizarre or unusual in mundane ways- like being [[Fiction 500|the heir of a richer-than-an-entire-country family]], being able to do way more with a gymnastics ribbon than one should, etc.
* All three schools in Winx Club: Prof. Avalon at Alfea turned out to be an imposter cloud spirit designed to kidnap Bloom; Cloudtower turned out to be housing three delinquent teenage witches who never seemed to go to class (and the school was the usual occupying hideout for the seasons evil villain); Redfountain is a school for young heroes and the headmaster is a wizard, but none of the boys have magic.
* ''[[Rosario
* ''[[Beelzebub]]'': The main setting for the first arc of the series, Ishiyama High, is famous for housing the city's worst delinquents, with a delinquency rate of [[Up to Eleven|120%]]. There are always fights, no one seems to ever attend actual class, and the entire building is smashed up and covered in graffiti.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'': Duel Academy. Doesn't help that it's on an island, and thus almost the only setting where any dueling takes place...
* ''[[Gakuen Alice]]''. An "Alice" is someone with a strange or paranormal talent. Any kid who is identified as having an Alice is legally required to go to the Alice Academy, and cannot leave the campus until graduating from high school at the age of 20. The campus is immense and includes forests and a town. All teachers and administration are Alices, and other staff/residents include robots or mutant animals created by Alices. The buildings inlude three heavily guarded and mysterious school buildings and residence buildings for students and three buildings belonging the three enigmatic headmasters, all of which are guarded with supernatural means. Most of the adventures in the story are set in and somehow related to the buildings and their peculiarities.
* Two of the ''Eldoran'' series anime, ''Zettai Muteki Raijin-oh'' and ''Nekketsu Saikyo Gosaurer'' have this. The latter turns into a group of Giant Robots and the former has them housed under them with both having fifth grade students pilot them.
* Raira Academy in ''[[Durarara!!]]'' had a hell of reputation for this thanks to the antics of [[Hair-Trigger Temper|Shizuo]] [[Super Strength|Heiwajima]] and [[Manipulative Bastard|Izaya]] [[The Chessmaster|Orihara]]
{{quote|'''Teacher:''' But really...compared to the times when we had to teach Izaya-kun and Shizuo-kun, this school is way more peaceful nowadays. Back then we used to have filled gasoline drums rolling down the third floor of the school building...}}
* Every high school in ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' qualifies. One wonders how these institutions still attract students, considering all the mayhem that goes on there.
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* ''[[Hidan no Aria]]'' has Butei High, where the students are trained to be armed detectives. Naturally, this occurs.
* The Death Weapon Meister Academy in ''[[Soul Eater]]''.
* A standard setting for most ''[[
** Fuuka Academy in the original. In [[
** Garderobe Academy in ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', a training ground for [[Magical Girl Warrior
** Hoshinomiya Fuuka Academy in ''[[Mai-HiME Destiny]]'', where most of the main characters possess [[Psychic Powers]] to some degree.
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* Louis Sachar's [[Wayside School]].
* [[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Camp Half-Blood]] is a summer camp designed to protect the children of Greek Gods, and teach them battle skills - but if that doesn't count as a school, then pretty much every school Percy's been to counts, because monsters just can't get enough of his godly goodness.
* The titular academy in the [[
* [[The Gallagher Girls|Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women]] is a school for training teenage girls to be spies.
* [[The Seven Realms Series|The Seven Realms]] gives us Oden's Ford, a world-famous academy that teaches everything from magic, to the art of war, to how to be a proper lady. Most of book two takes place there. [[Scenery Porn|The Imagery is spectacular.]]
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* While it's a summer camp and not a school, ''[[Psychonauts]]'''s Whispering Rock is an ordinary, mundane [[Summer Campy]], if one mixed with a [[Super-Hero School]].
* PSP JRPG [[Class of Heroes]].
* Maritsu Evil Academy from ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'', of course.
** Notable for the fact that the school's campus is so gigantic that it encompasses most of the world (And presumably will ''be'' the entire world eventually, due to its constant expansion). As such, traversing things like icy wastelands and lava-filled ruins to get to a class isn't out of the ordinary, making the "adventure" part of the trope's name quite literal in this case.
* Territoire for Windows by [[Easy Game Station]]. Main character Facil becomes [[Student Council President]] and fights battles along with her "students" in this TRPG.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' has the Gardens, such as Balamb and Galbadia, which are military academies.
* ''[[Escape From St. Mary's|Escape From St Marys]]'' has time travelers, aliens, a random knight in shining armor, kung-fu battles, angry cannibals...
* Naranja Academy or Uva Academy, the central setting in ''[[Pokémon Scarlet and Violet]]'' (Naranja in Scarlet, Uva in Violet), a school for Pokémon trainers! Naturally, given the nature of the franchise, there is a lot of field work for the curriculum, but there ''are'' classes to attend and tests to take, the same idea as [[Mini Game]]s.
== Web Comics ==
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** South fits the description more than north. [http://egscomics.com/?date=2005-04-19 Physics teachers react to levitation with nothing more than a sigh].
* Setting for the eponymous ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''.
* The comic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130819021942/http://www.rdinn.com/mads.php M.A. in Dragon Slaying]'' is a tabletop adventure/comedy comic that features an adventurer's collegiate life.
* [http://iofm.comicgenesis.com/ The Institute Of Metaphysics].
* The school ''[[MSF High]]'' definitely applies.
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== Western Animation ==
* [[The Fairly
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' features a school where some of the students are in a global organization bent on guaranteeing freedom for children worldwide, teachers who oppose this group, corrupt members of the student council who try to ensure that snow days never occur, playgrounds with hidden paths to ''volcanoes'', etc.
** Not to mention the secret temple that leads to the Fountain of Youth, kindergarteners that are practically wild animals, Wild West situations... the list goes on and on.
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== Web Original ==
* Upcoming{{when}} ''Grave Academy'', while being a monster school on a [[Haunted Castle]] on a Überwald 'verse, is also this.
* Famous [[YouTube]] user [[Freddie Wong]] directs the [[YouTube]] series [[Video Game High School]], in which becoming a professional video game layer is a legitimate and lucrative career, and graduates from VGHS are assured a successful future. Students don't study physics, but physics engines; they don't play varsity football, but varsity FPS. If your class rank drops below zero, then you're expelled. [[Naive Newcomer]] Brian. D gets lucky and earns admittance into the school by winning against VGHS's stop student, [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]], The Law. [[Visual Effects of Awesome|It's almost impossible to believe that the special effects are done by a bunch of college students.]]
* Both the [[Super-Hero School|Venture Institute]] and the [[Super-Hero School|Hyperion Academy]] in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]''.
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* The [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]] of the [[Whateley Universe]].
* [[Wizarding School|Memorial Academy]] in the ''[[Arcana Magi Universe]]''
* Ariadnio in ''[[Greek Ninja]]''.
* Beacon Academy in the first three volumes of ''[[RWBY]]''.
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