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{{trope}}
This is the educational equivalent of the [[Cool Car]] and its vehicular brethren
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
▲This is the [[Cool Car]] and its vehicular brethren's educational equivalent. It's often an [[Academy of Adventure]] and/or an [[Elaborate University High]], and frequently an [[Extranormal Institute]], but none of those tropes apply in all cases.
▲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 ''brutal'']].
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* [[Hero Academy|Freelance Adventuring]]
* [[Ninja School|Sneaky Zen Masters Degree]] ([[Star Wars|for being one with the]] [[Life Energy]])
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* [[Spy School|Becoming Licensed to Kill]] people with [[Volcano Lair]]s on [[Island Base|an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean]] ([[Evil Genius (video game)|or is in the process of building one]])
* [[Super-Hero School|Metahuman First Response Training]]
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== 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
* [[New 52|DC Comics]] has Mystik U.
▲[[Marvel Comics]]'s Professor Charles Xavier founded the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngters. Mutatis Mutandis indeed.
== 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.
▲* Brompton Academy is this in [[Young Sherlock Holmes]].
== 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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* ''[[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]]''
== Web Animation ==
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* ''[[RWBY]]'' and
== Web Video ==
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== Other Media ==
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== Real Life ==
* In the Navy, sailors learn to [[Cool Boat|sail]] aboard [
* 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]].
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