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The benevolent (mostly) version of this is an [[Extranormal Institute]]. Different from [[Boarding School of Horrors]], because it's not a question of the facilities being bad or the teachers or other students being mean—usually everything is outwardly quite nice, because it makes a better contrast with the Terrible Lurking Secret.

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Variant: In ''[[Death Note]]'', Wammy's Orphanage for genius children really exists in order to find a successor to L.

** ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' does the opposite: the Kinderheim 511 orphanage {{spoiler|really exists in order to create a heartless monster to become the next Hitler. They're almost all killed when they find a kid who is exactly what they want and he leaves pretty much everyone dead.}}

* Mugen Gakuen (Infinity College) in ''[[Sailor Moon]] S'' acts as a front for activities of the Death Busters, aliens from Tau Ceti who possess human bodies and seek to summon Master Pharaoh 90 to end the world.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' reveals us during the later parts of the series that ''every single person'' in Shinji's class is a pilot candidate. It does make sense to collect all of them into one school as said school is located in the same city which the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] are attacking and which houses the [[Humongous Mecha]] to fight said aliens. It even makes more sense when it's revealed that the Marduk Institute that selects pilots is a front for NERV itself who can quickly forge the necessary papers, thereby calling up new pilots on their discretion. Just watch episode 18: Unit 03 is completed and is about to be shipped to Japan. Cue NERV approaching {{spoiler|Touji}}, using his {{spoiler|sister being transferred to a better hospital}} as leverage.

* ''Hatsukanezumi no Jikan'', or ''Hour of the Mice'', takes place in a boarding school where the students are being experimented on.

* ''[[Afterschool Charisma]]'' features a school for clones of famous historical figures; there's lots of plotting going on around them, including {{spoiler|the clones being implied to be killed if they don't display the talent of their originals. After all, they're disposable; the scientists can always make another one.}}

* The overarching plot of ''Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E'' revolves around Courtney's high school being the cover for the base of the Dragon King, a 40s supervillain. This includes a supervillain art teacher, kidnapped students turned into brainwashed ninjas. and Courtney nearly getting her brain transferred into a giant mosquito due to her cheating on an IQ test.

 

 

* In Red Witch's ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' fanfic, Miss Abercrombie's "Charm School" turns out to be an elite academy for spies and secret agents from Earth's wealthiest and well-placed families.

* In ''[[Animorphs]]'', the Yeerks, mind-controlling aliens that inhabit their hosts, use a Boys & Girls Club type organization named ''The Sharing'' to recruit. The Vice-Principal of the protagonists' school is infested, and the janitor's closet is an entryway to the aliens' feeding grounds.

* In the ''[[Alex Rider]]'' series, Alex attends a corrective school for delinquent rich kids. All is normal until the "changed" students turn out to be genocidal clones of the [[Big Bad]] about to use their parent's resources for a new apartheid.

* ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]'', where a gang of pupils are secretly coached by Miss Brodie for her own purposes.

* The Gallagher School for Girls in ''[[The Gallagher Girls|I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You]]'' and ''[[The Gallagher Girls|Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy]]'' is a training ground for young female spies and the girls are constantly being thrown into life-threatening situations as "tests".

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