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{{trope}}
This is the
So then how do you know it's this trope? The [[Title Drop|Cool School]] is too cool to be ''your'' school, a school that's probably very good at teaching, thanks to [[Organization
▲This is the CoolCar and its vehicular bretheren's educational equivalent. It's often an AcademyOfAdventure and/or an ElaborateUniversityHigh, and frequently an ExtranormalInstitute, but none of those tropes apply in all cases.
Despite this, it's not always sunshine and roses. The villain(s) will attack the school if there are any, the [[Rival Dojos|Rival School]] will almost certainly be full of [[Spoiled Brat|spoiled rotten]] [[Privileged Rival|over-privileged]] [[Jerk
▲So then how do you know it's this trope? The [[Title Drop|Cool School]] is too cool to be ''your'' school, a school that's probably very good at teaching, thanks to [[Organization With Unlimited Funding|no shortage of funding]] and/or a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] (or a few). Expect the textbooks and the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to be full of [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]s and [[Sufficiently Advanced Technology]] or [[Magitek|Magic]] respectively if the setting is in any way fantastical. If it isn't, it's probably one of the weirder school types not in the [[Extranormal Institute]] list like the [[School Of Seduction]] or [[Clown School]] and/or has a [[Wacky Homeroom]] if it's not a [[Wacky College]]. The Library will be at ''least'' well-stocked, and there's a chance it's a [[The Library of Babel|Great Big Library Of Everything]].
▲Despite this, it's not always sunshine and roses. The villain(s) will attack the school if there are any, the [[Rival Dojos|Rival School]] will almost certainly be full of [[Spoiled Brat|spoiled rotten]] [[Privileged Rival|over-privileged]] [[Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk|Jerks With Hearts Of Jerk]] that put the Cool School's resident [[Jerk Jock]] and [[Alpha Bitch]] to shame ([[Even Evil Has Standards|in the other way]]), and [[Arson Murder And Jaywalking|the homework is often]] ''[[Arson Murder And Jaywalking|brutal]]''.
The Cool School is often a [[Boarding School]] but never an [[Boarding School of Horrors|awful one]] (unless the villains have made a hostile takeover), and the protagonist will lament either [[Wangst|often]] or [[Hidden Depths|on rare occasion]] about how much life at home sucks and they're much happier at the Cool School.
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The Trope is often a [[Wish Fulfillment]] fantasy of [[Author Appeal|the writer]] and almost always one of the fandom. Who ''wouldn't'' want to go to/have gone to this school? Even if it's dangerous, it's never the kind of place that treats you like [[Assimilation Academy|National Student Database Entry #78956723567606]] or [[Only In It For The Money|just the $1,000,000,000,000 "donation" for a new school building]], and what you learn there is [[School Saved My Life|going to be useful]].
This is where you will find the [[Stranger
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* [[All
* [[Hero Academy|Freelance Adventuring]]
* [[Ninja School|Sneaky Zen Masters Degree]] ([[Star Wars|for being one with the]] [[Life Energy]])
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* Tropology [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]
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* [[Wizarding School|Magical Doctorates]]
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Train Plus Train (manga)|Train + Train]]'' takes place aboard a [[Cool Train|Cool]] [[X Meets Y|Train]] [[Elaborate University High|High School]]. [[Needs More Love]].
* ''[[Stellvia of the Universe]]'': Stellvia is a Cool School [[in Space]]!
== Comic Books ==
* [[Marvel Comics]]'s Professor Charles Xavier founded the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Mutatis Mutandis indeed.
* [[New 52|DC Comics]] has Mystik U.
== Fan Works ==
* Camilla Sandman's ''[[Official Fanfiction University|Fanfiction University of Middle Earth]]'' is this trope where fanfic writers are taught to be better writers.
** The spinoffs that are set in various fandoms are also this.
== Film ==
* Brompton Academy is this in ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]''.
* [[Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School| Miss. Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls]] is an all girl boarding school...Except that all the girls are monsters.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Ready Player One]]'' is more focused on [[The Metaverse|the OASIS]] in general, though the protagonist, Wade Watts, starts out living in [[Urban Segregation|the stacks]], a combination urban ghetto, third-world slum and trailer park, but attending school on the virtual planet [[Meaningful Name|Ludus]]. The planet has many carbon-copy school buildings and is as mundane as a school in virtual reality can get, though Ludus' schools do have a class dedicated to completing what is essentially [[Metagame|the entire plot of the book]].
* ''[[Wayside School]]'' is a thirty-story building, built sideways by an [[Hand Wave|apologetic]] builder. It also has [[Missing Floor|"no" Nineteenth Floor]] and [[Weirdness Magnet|the students and teachers are just as weird]].
* The [[The Worst Witch| Miss. Cackle's Academy for Witches]] is a British all girls boarding school to teach them to become the best witch ever.
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin Spell Skool]]'' sets its furious back-stabbing, level-gaining action in a [[Wizarding School]] that is [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|absolutely ''not'']] [[Harry Potter|Hogwarts]]. Honestly.
* Illuminati University from ''[[GURPS|GURPS IOU]]'' is ''every'' kind of Cool School possible, all rolled into one extradimensional, non-Euclidean and somewhat sanity-damaging ball.
== Video Games ==
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Clone High]]'' is a cover for human cloning - for [[Tomato In The Mirror|certain]] [[Averted Trope|degrees]] of [[Open Secret|cover]] - but you do get to go to school with [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous|other famous historical figures]].
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' mostly takes place at [[Acme Products|Acme Looniversity]], which has classes for [[Required Secondary Powers|required]] [[Toon|hammerspace-related]] [[Animated Actors|skills]].
* Canterlot High School in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Spin-Off]], ''My Little Pony: Equsetria Girls'', is this.
== Web Animation ==
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20230525113044/https://smosh.fandom.com/wiki/16-Bit_High_School# 16-Bit High School]'' is a school for video game ''[[Animated Actors|characters]]''.
* ''[[RWBY]]'' and its [[Spin-Off]] ''[[RWBY Chibi]]'' have Beacon Academy, where they train [[The Hunter|Huntsmen and Huntresses]] to fight [[Names To Run Away From Really Fast|The Grimm]]. Much [[Hilarity Ensues|vague referencing of fairy tales while fighting like a badass]] [[Animesque|with anime style and flair]] ensues, as does [[Cerebus Syndrome]].
== Web Video ==
* ''[[Video Game High School]]'' takes place in a world where eSports are bigger than the FIFA World Cup, and the titular school teaches students [[Serious Business|to play video games at a professional level]].
== Other Media ==
* ''[
== Real Life ==
* In the Navy, sailors learn to [[Cool Boat|sail]] aboard [[w:Training ship|training ships]]. If you're thinking of writing about one and it isn't [[Cool Ship|in space]] or otherwise not [[Like Reality Unless Noted]], the real life "Ship Prefix" is... TS ''Name of Ship''.
* Most Universities that are [[Oxbridge|well known]] for their [[Ivy League|prestige]] [[Strawman U|and/or]] [[Wacky College|zany student pranks]].
* If you went to college to get away from home, [[Truth In Television|there's probably a bit of this in your mind]].
** On the school's side, a University does its' job properly when [[Be Yourself|students learn to think for themselves]]. Contrast many [[Junior High|grade]] [[High School|schools]] and any University [[Sucky School|which isn't so good at doing its job]].
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