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* ''[[Billy Bunter]]''
* ''[[Jennings]]''
* [[Enid Blyton|Enid Blyton's]] had three series centred around this, all of them pretty similar (although the ''Naughtiest Girl'' novels were unusually not set in a [[One-Gender School]]) - ''[[St. Clare's]]'', ''[[Malory Towers]]'' and ''[[The Naughtiest Girl]] in the School''. Most of her other series' protagonists - e.g. those of the ''[[Famous Five]]'' books - are mentioned as attending these as well.
* Likewise, nearly every one of the over fifty novels of Angela Brazil, who had pretty much the exact same content but for girls of one or two generations earlier. They were the original source of most of the tropes that came to be regarded as boarding school cliches in later years, and suffered badly from [[Seinfield Is Unfunny]] as a result.
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' is set in one of these.
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* ''[[The Catcher in The Rye]]'' -- boarding school doesn't work out for Holden.
* The [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''Cain's Last Stand'' features the titular now-retired commissar as a teacher at a Schola Progenium, a sort of state-run boarding school for orphans specifically devoted to educating future members of the Ecclesiarchy and the Commissariat. This being the [[Warhammer 40000]] universe and Cain being a '''Hero of the Imperium''', not much time is devoted to actually developing much beyond Cain's class and work associates before the action starts. However, from the innumerable references to Cain's own experiences in a similar body, its clear that the Scholae Progenia are essentially British boarding schools [[In Space]]!
* Coates Academy in the [[Gone (novel)]] series is a boarding school specifically for "difficult" kids.
* Mordantly documented by [[Molesworth|Nigel Molesworth]] (with [[St Trinian's|Ronald Searle]] doing the illustrations) in ''Down with Skool!'' and its sequels.
* Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women in ''[[The Gallagher Girls|I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You]]''.
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