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When a school is used as the cover for an elaborate plot-centric scheme, usually by a [[Big Bad]] or [[Mad Scientist]]. This is popular in horror or science fiction, where the story will centre on aliens, witchcraft or other supernatural activity secretly taking place at the school. Often involves brainwashing or forced servitude of the students, or illicit scientific testing being conducted on the students. Spoilers follow, as the True Purpose of the schools is often not known until [[The Reveal]].
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
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* 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.}}
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''. Duel Academia is basically a giant roach motel for [[Cosmic Horror
* 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.
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* In the ''[[Spy High]]'' books, the characters attend a "school" that's really a training centre for young spies.
* Battle School and Command School in ''[[Ender's Game]]''. Although they're a bit more transparent and honest about their motives than usual.
* Humorous example: In ''Regarding the Fountain'', Dry Creek Middle School turns out to have been built {{spoiler|on top of the local natural spring that is the source of the town's famous creek}} as part of a plot by a pair of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive
* Hailsham, the British boarding school where the protagonists grow up Kazuo Ishiguro's novel ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'' is really {{spoiler|an experiment designed to prove that cloned children would grow up to be as intelligent and sensitive as regular people if raised in the right conditions}}. That wouldn't seem so bad, except the children get {{spoiler|cannibalized for organ donations}} anyway.
* Hampden College, the setting of ''[[The Secret History]]'', isn't specifically ''for''
* The ''[[Gemma Doyle]]'' trilogy.
* 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.
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