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{{trope}}
It's like a normal school. Drab classrooms with blackboards, hallways with
This is
Often inverted by introducing a [[Academy of Evil|super]]''[[Academy of Evil|villain]]'' [[Academy of Evil|school.]]
Maybe we can excuse it for possibly being an [[Elaborate University High]]. Often has [[Danger Room Cold Open]] scenes.
Compare with [[Academy of Adventure]], [[Wizarding School]], [[Ninja School]], [[Hero Academy]], and [[All-Ghouls School]]. A dark take on this trope can turn it into a [[School for Scheming]]. Not to be confused with [[Power High]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* To an extent, Duel Academia in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''
* Academy City in ''[[
* The eponymous school in ''[[Gakuen Alice]]''. While the "hero" part is debatable, it's a school for people with powers, most of which easily qualify as "super".
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Trope Maker]] is Professor Charles Xavier's school in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''. Depending on the continuity, Emma Frost's school, the [[Generation X|Massachusetts Academy]], may count as a supervillain school if she is Xavier's foe.
** In fact, the Xavier Academy jumped around a bit between being a
*** It got to the point where Xavier's 'school' was so chock-full of adult superheroes that they changed the name from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngers to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, making it a superhero ''college'', and opened a franchise with the formerly evil rival Massachusets Academy for ''[[Generation X]]''.
** The fallout of the Schism storyline has Wolverine establishing the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning, largely featuring students from the now-defunct Xavier Institute
* [[Shout-Out|Shuster Academy]] from ''[[Sidekicks]]''.
* ''[[PS238]]''
** And the Praetorian Academy, [[PS238]]'s rival which is heavily troped to be a supervillain school: you've got your Evil Headmaster, your Military Discipline, your Faceless Minion Masks, your overly-militaristic student codenames, and of course the overwhelming arrogance that they are far superior to their rival school.
*** Also, [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat|they cheat at soccer.]]
* The manga-inspired French comic book ''[[Sentai School]]''.
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* [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]' ''Initiative'' program is somewhat like this, but blurs the line heavily between "school" and "boot camp." Not many other examples listed here take young teens and put sniper rifles in their hands...
** Initiative's successor Avengers Academy is a more traditional example, except {{spoiler|it's more about training kids so they ''wouldn't'' become supervillains}}.
** In an upcoming arc, they are moving the academy to the old West Coast Avengers compound and adding a bunch of other teen heroes as students.
* ''[[Hero Camp]]'' is sort of like this, but, you know, summer camp instead of an actual school.
* The Seminary in ''[[The Intimates]]'', where powered teens are sent by their stage parents to develop skills they wish they didn't have. Courses include Secret Identities (taught by an obvious analogue of Superman, right down to the glasses) and Morality (the instructor of which had over 32 confirmed kills in the [[Dark Age]]).
* The mini-series ''Grounded'' follows the only normal kid in the school for superpowered teens. In this case he's the odd one out for wanting to be a hero, in spite of his powerlessness; the other kids might be the children of superheroes and have abilities of their own, but in general they aren't interested in running off to try and save the world once they've graduated - most of them want to use their powers in the most self-serving way possible, and three in particular want to be villains!
* [[Pride High]] has this as its core premise: a gay/straight alliance at a superhero high school.
* The French comic ''[[Freaks' Squeele]]'' revolves around the students' life in a university for heroes, specialized in (pretty lame) bad guys and villains.
* ''[[Marvel 2099]]'' had a Superhero ''Orphanage'': the Xavier Shelter for Indigent Children in ''X-Nation 2099''. Run by a group of [[Church Militant|warrior nuns]] called Sister Nicholas and the Howlin' Commandments.
* ''Super School'' is a comic strip which
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', this is how Sophie learned to control her powers: she was coached by Plymouth, an ex-hero, along with a stack of 'How To' books.
* Liberty Vocational, in Naomi Novik's ''Will Supervillains Be On The Final'' series, offers classes ranging from designing costumes to discussing the ethics of superhero-dom.
== [[Fan
* The eponymous academy in ''[[Slayer Academy]]'', a virtual series spin-off of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', was built with the purpose of training all the new Slayers in the use of their abilities.
* It's never actually seen "on-screen", but in ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' there are numerous mentions of "Warriors' Academy", an adjunct of the superteam the main character belongs to in his home timeline, which is described as a school for early-manifesting supers as well as the children of team members (who themselves are or will be super-powered as well).
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' Camp Half-Blood. It is a camp where demi-gods could safely stay.
** By extension, Camp Jupiter in ''[[Heroes Of Olympus]]''.
* In the ''My Brother Blubb'' book series, both a superhero school ''and'' a supervillain school are featured.
* Inverted by Catherine Jenks' ''Evil Genius'' series.
* The ''[[
* Drearcliff Grange is a 1930s girls' school which takes "talented" students in [[Kim Newman]]'s Diogenes Club stories. Combined with [[Boarding School of Horrors]] for a parody of Girls' School stories of the period.
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* The [[Web Comic]] ''[[Magellan]]'', which focuses on the special challenges of an aspiring [[Badass Normal]].
* In the [[Web Comic]] ''[[Evil, Inc.]].'', the eponymous corporation of supervillains started with an evil daycare center for employees' kids, and has recently moved up to an evil education program.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20091028074431/http://www.geocities.com/heroesofcrash/HeroesOfCRASH/Index.htm Heroes of CRASH]''.
* Subverted in the webcomic ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', where Summer Mighty attends a normal high school. [[Word of God]] has it that there is an after-school program for superhumans.
* ''Bad Guy High''
* ''[http://specialschool.spiderforest.com/ Special School]'' Which is actually a special class for super-powered students, but held in a normal school.
* The eponymous school of ''[[Overlord Academy]]'' is a school for supervillains.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* The cartoon ''[[Hero High]]''.▼
* On ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', Dimmsdale Elementry briefly becomes one thanks to Timmy's wishing.▼
* The Spanish cartoon ''[[Hero Kids]]'', heavily inspired by the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' in addition to this trope.▼
* The Xavier Institute also features in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' in its role as a [[Super-Hero School]]; however, since the X-Men themselves are mostly teenagers in this incarnation they also attend regular school at Bayville High. For the first two seasons it's the usual high school antics complicated by keeping their powers a secret while season three focuses on what happens when the [[Masquerade]] breaks and the other students find out their secret.▼
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Freedom City Play By Post]]'' maintains one of these, that continuity's version of the Claremont Academy mentioned above under ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]''. Claremont, a friendly place in a friendly city, is run by Duncan Summers, the local [[Expy]] of the Neal Adams-era Batman, with the standard tropes of the
* The [[Web Original]] fiction series ''[[Whateley Universe|Whateley Academy]]'' is built around this trope. In this [[The Verse|universe]], [[Puberty Superpower|mutant traits manifest around fourteen years of age]] (often even if [[Compulsory School Age|starting out older]]), so mutants from all over the world go to high school at [[Shout-Out|Whateley]] Academy in [[H.P. Lovecraft|Dunwich]], New Hampshire. There is a danger room equivalent or two, martial arts, magic arts, and psychic arts classes, and curricula ranging from normal high school stuff all the way to 'workshop' courses that teach young mad scientsts how to make power armor and killer robots. Elective / specialist classes include Costume Shop, Intro to Flight, Psychic Ethics...
** However, the school is ''strictly neutral'' in regards to heroism /
*** Due to that neutrality, anyone who attacks the school or threatens any of its students or their families will face the wrath of the entire mutant/super world.
* The ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' features two of such schools: the Hyperion Academy is located in New York State and resembles a Ivy-League-prep school more than anything else. The Venture Institute in Minnesota outside the Twin Cities, and more resembles [[Sky High]] than anything else.
* The web serial ''[[The Descendants]]'' is packed to the gills with these; from the now-defunct Psionics Training and Application Academy run by the [[Big Bad]], to the Liedecker Institute currently being run by the heroes in unknowing cooperation with the local [[Anti-Villain]]. There are at least three other schools mentioned so far as well.
* Inverted in the web video, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyi0qEvB03A Reunion]'': [[Doctor Steel]] calls up fellow mad scientist [[Agamemnon Tiberius Vacuum]] and invites him to the 10th annual Mad Scientist's reunion - implying that they attended some Mad Scientist school together in the past.
* ''[[Academy of Superheroes]]'': ''Academy'' is the origin story of most of the ASH and STRAFE characters. It is set at the eponymous Academy of Superheroes.
* Beacon Academy, Haven Academy, Signal Academy and other such schools from the world of Remnant in ''[[RWBY]]''. While they do not turn out traditional superheroes, they do train people with superpowers and special weapons to fight and survive in a world overrun with the forces of evil.
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* The cartoon ''[[Hero High]]''.
▲* On ''[[The Fairly
▲* The Spanish cartoon ''[[Hero Kids]]'', heavily inspired by the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' in addition to this trope.
▲* The Xavier Institute also features in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' in its role as a
** The [[X-Men (animation)|early 90s ''X-Men'' animated series]] deconstructs this trope in the episode "Cold Comfort", which depicts Iceman as a defiant, embittered alumnus of such a school.
* ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'' technically averts this, as Metropolis High is an ordinary high school for all intents and purposes - it seems to be a [[Contrived Coincidence]] that so many teenage heroes wind up enrolling there.
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