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Military schools are institutions which aim to instill military-style discipline in students. Often the explicit goal of such schools is to prepare students for military careers. The military school is intended for minors, as opposed to the [[Military Academy]] which trains at the undergraduate university level.

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* ''[[Angel Beats (Anime)|Angel Beats!]]'' - While strictly not exactly an military school, due to the size of SSS, one of the biggest organizations within students, all students attending there have a high chance of learning how to use firearms.

* ''[[Naruto (Anime)|Naruto]]'' - The Ninja Acadamy, where prepubescent kids learn to throw kunai (also part [[Wizarding School]], since they also teach he [[Doppelganger Spin]] and Fire Breathng). They only teach the basics of becoming a ninja, Sasuke learned his fire style jutsu from his father.

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* ''[[ChildsChild's Play (Filmfilm)|Childs Play]] III''. In the first movie, the main character's living with his parents {{spoiler|who die}}, so in the second he's living with his foster parents {{spoiler|who die}}, so in the third he gets [[The Other Darrin|Darrined]] and sent to military school where {{spoiler|people die}}.

* ''Taps'' - a [[Military School]] is to be closed down and razed. The outraged students refuse to allow it and end up in a confrontation with the authorities.

* ''The Lords of Discipline'' - a group of senior cadets try to force freshman cadets they disapprove of to leave their [[Military School]], including the first black cadet who was enrolled. (In fact, "Carolina Military Institute" is an obvious stand-in for The Citadel, The Military COLLEGE of South Carolina.)

* In ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', this is what Neil, one of the members of the title group of youths, is threatened with by his [[Fantasy -Forbidding Father]] when he learns that he is playing Puck in their production of ''[[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream]]'' instead of focusing his energies on being the doctor he wants him to be. {{spoiler|The prospect of being sent someplace he does not want to go and being given no real choice in life breaks poor Neil, and he is [[Driven to Suicide]]}}.

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] had one [[In Space]] in ''[[Space Cadet (Literaturenovel)|Space Cadet]]''.

* Schola Progenium in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' takes in Emperor Servants' orphans at a pretty young age, so for several lower levels it's pretty much this trope, and this can be seen in a couple of the tie-in novels that [[Demoted to Extra|bother to mention Schola at all]], like ''[[Ciaphas Cain|Cain's Last Stand]]''. For older cadets already taking special courses it's more like Military Academy, though.

* ''[[The Confusions of Young TorlessTörless]]'' is supposed to be set at one of these, in 19th century Austria-Hungary.

* In the first few seasons of ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]],'' eldest brother Francis attends one of these.

* An episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' parodied this, combining it with a Cinderella story. "You forgot your... boot?"

* ''[[The Sopranos]]'' episode "Army of One". Tony Soprano and his wife Carmela disagree over whether to send their son A.J. to a [[Military School]].

* Arthur Carlson from ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' had a son going to one of these, 'Prussian Valley'. He learns that his son's flunking out, but lets him hold onto his [[The "B" Grade]] excuse for leaving, and enrolls him in public school.

* A [[Chekhov's Gun]] in the ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'' novel ''The Last Straw'' -- a—a rather annoying [[Delinquent]] is sent to one of these after his parents get fed up with him early in the book, as shown by a chapter. {{spoiler|It works, as we see him in his summer job as a movie usher, and by the looks of things, he's pretty much the platonic ideal of a good cadet. This is what causes Frank to seriously consider sending [[The Narrator|his son]] to it as a way of ridding his status as [[The Chew Toy]]. Greg is not amused.}}

* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' has Bart get forced into one of these. Lisa ends up joining as well because she liked the rigid structure and the fact that it was actually teaching stuff.

* Parodied in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'', where a [[Zany Scheme]] to get Billy into a prestigious school ends with him realizing the school that he just succeeded in getting into was actually [[Military School]]. The last shot of the cartoon is of him standing in front of a firing line.

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