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In [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|ye olden days]], people learned skills by being [[The Apprentice (trope)|apprenticed]] to someone, so it was natural to assume that magicians would learn the ropes in the same manner. Then, the modern age saw the rise of public schooling and universities almost completely displace apprenticeship as the means of education. In light of this, some authors decided that the school setting was a viable way to educate their magicians.
Thus was born the '''Wizarding School''', the institute for education in magic. There the young sorcerers go to learn various forms of [[Magic A Is Magic A|rule-based]] [[Functional Magic]] (after all, there's not much one can ''learn'' if the magic is [[Wild Magic|random and uncontrollable)]], divided into different "subjects" or even schools of magic. Expect plenty of [[Magi Babble]] on the tests.
These come in two varieties; actual schools, and universities.
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A subtrope of [[Extranormal Institute]]. Compare with [[Super-Hero School]] and [[Ninja School]]. Sometimes comes combined with a [[Magical Society]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Mahora Academy from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''—and specifically Negi's class—pretty much has the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]. [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Robots]], mages, [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires|vampires]], demons, [[Ninja]], ghosts, etc. They're still expected to keep up the [[Masquerade]], though- the trope is played with a bit in that it doubles as a regular school, and has several [[Muggles]]. (They do it well enough that, at least at the start of the series, the [[Muggles]] in the class have only twigged onto the [[Robot Girl]]—because she is ''obviously'' robotic—and even then some of them think it might be makeup or a gag.) That's just the class, of course—the school itself has a [[World Tree]], a library closer to an RPG dungeon than a school resource, a staff composed exclusively of mages, etc. ''And the muggles don't notice''.
** Played straight later with Ariadne, a [[Expy|suspiciously similar facility]] that doesn't need to bother with a masquerade due to being in another world where there ''are'' no [[Muggles]].
** Also [[Lampshaded]] in-series a lot, especially with the classmate Chisame (the series' [[Deadpan Snarker]]) who, early on, had a tendency to go on ranting monologues about these things which nobody else seemed to notice (like them having a 10-year old teacher, a robot in the class, the ''extremely'' varied physical ages of her classmates (they're in middle-school, but their appearances vary from looking 10-year-olds to the easily upper-teen ninja to one who certainly ''looks'' like a woman, and fought in at least one war), etc).
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** And Negi graduated from a much smaller
*** Seven years ''is'' how British schools work which is exactly why Hogwarts has a seven year system, so the Welsh school having seven years would be correct even if [[Harry Potter]] had never existed (albeit with Negi graduating far younger than the average pupil).
* Aoi Gakuen in ''[[Maburaho]]''.
* ''[[Alice Academy]]''
* The Tristian Academy of Magic in ''[[
* ''[[Macademi Wasshoi]]'', adapted from a series of light novels appropriately called ''Magician's Academy''.
* St. Hilde Magic School, which Vivio attends after the events of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Sorcerer Stabber Orphen]]'' has the Tower of Fangs-
* The Anehara Cross School of Magic in ''[[Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou]]''
* Constant Magic Academy in ''[[Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou]]''.
* The magic cram school in ''[[Mamotte Lollipop]]'' that the examinees all probably attend
* The titular educational institution of the ''[[St.
* ''[[Ciel:
* Masahiro goes to an unnamed [[
* Celeasdile in ''[[Crimson Spell]]''.
* Tokyo Beatrice Academy in ''[[Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku o!
* Luna Nova Academy, the main setting of ''[[Little Witch Academia]]''.
== Comic Books ==
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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', occasional reference is made to the Wizards' University in the city of Zagesevregar; Grunnel lectured there in the past, and Brox was there searching for a solution to the no-monster problem of Baravada. The Raleka wizards also worked at or attended the place. However, the university is never seen.
* Malkin Academy in ''[[Malkin Academy: The Cup of Kings|Malkin Academy the Cup of Kings]]''.
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* The wizards and soothsayers of Avram Davidson's fantasy works generally receive their magical education in less organized settings, but [[Virgil]] (the medieval wizard version first published in 1969, not the historical poet) is depicted attending a school with a truly horrifying finals week. For herbalism, students are given a tray full of fungi and told to remove the poisonous and healing varieties. And then they have to ''eat the remainder''. The final exam is a simple footrace...but the devil takes the hindmost.
* Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, from ''[[The Worst Witch]]'' series of books, which pre-date MANY of Harry Potter's tropes by a good 23 years.
* Caithnard in ''[[The Riddle
** Before that, Lungold. Unfortunately, its founder, Ghisteslwchlohm, turned out to be an [[Evil Sorcerer]]- he used the school to gather all the wizards together, steal important prophetic knowledge from them, and then destroyed it and them so they couldn't interfere with his plans.
* [[Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] was published in 1977 contains Chrestomanci Castle. Almost all of the Chrestomanci Series contains some kind of
** ''Fantasyland'''s Wizards' University has a classic example of just that.
* Unseen University in the ''[[Discworld]]'', which comfortably predates Hogwarts by around fourteen years (and is also very un-Hogwarts-like, being more a parody of a University than of a Public School. The Assassins' Guild School, however...)
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* The Wizards on Ansalon in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' series of novels, first one published in 1984, have set up minor schools throughout the continent for people who want to try and learn High Sorcery. During the early Fifth Age Palin Majere set up the Academy of Sorcery to teach Primal Sorcery.
* [[Groosham Grange]] by [[Anthony Horowitz]], published 1988; another one that pre-dates Harry Potter and yet has some striking similarities.
* The White Tower in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', published in 1990. Girls who can channel are brought to the Tower to learn to control it before they kill themselves or others. Similarly, the Black Tower, though that's more of a Wizarding [[Training
* ''[[Wizard's Hall]]'', published in 1991 by Jane Yolen is somewhat similar to ''[[Harry Potter]]'', to the point that Yolen is rather suspicious of the Potter books' originality. The main character's name is Henry and he has a red-haired friend. However, the systems of magic aren't remotely similar and there are different naming conventions.
* The ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series has several schools of magic, the most mentioned one being White Winds, which has several branches due to the fact that graduating mages who reach Master or Adept level are supposed to start schools of their own. Tarma and Kethry set up a combination mage/fighting school toward the end of the ''Vows and Honor'' trilogy. In the ''Owls'' triolgy, it's mentioned that a Mage Collegium was set up so those mages that weren't also Heralds in Valdemar could be trained and and ensure that they would use magic ethically.
* Greenlaw College (for women) and Glasscastle University (for men) in the ''[[Scholarly Magics]]'' books by [[Caroline Stevermer]], the first of which was published in 1994. Greenlaw has the limbs and outer flourishes of a French finishing school for young ladies, while Glasscastle is a traditional English university.
* The Palace of the Prophets from ''[[Sword of Truth]]'', which was first published in 1994. Bonus points for being built as a spell-form, preventing the Sorceresses, Wizards, and especially the Prophets from aging, allowing them to accrue truly terrifying amounts of knowledge.
** Similarly, the Wizards' Keep used to be this, but slowly ran out of Wizards.
* Wyverley College in the ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' series, first published in 1995 by Garth Nix.
** Although played with, in that Wyverley is mostly just a classic girl's boarding school that happens to offer a few magic classes on the side, not a dedicated school for magic.
* Winding Circle in Tamora Pierce's ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' quartet, published in 1997, the same year as Harry Potter. Also Lightsbridge University, which we haven't actually seen in any of the books (several of the characters are alumni), and which sounds like it follows the trope much more closely than the temple city of Winding Circle.
** There are also various examples in the [[Tortall Universe]]. It seems to be generally agreed that the best one in the world is the university in Carthak that Numair went to.
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, with its Hogwarts, is the [[Trope Codifier]]. It has this as its [[Characteristic Trope]], even though the main plot eventually centers upon defeating [[Big Bad|Voldemort]]. Other
* The Bard Schools in the ''[[Books of Pellinor]]''. Though these are actually cities built around Schools.
* The wizard's school in [[Trudi Canavan]]'s ''[[The Black Magician Trilogy]]'', published 2001.
* There's a College of Magic in [[Salamander]], published in 2001, where most of the story takes place. It's portrayed as a research center as much as a school, though.
* In ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'', first published in 2003, this trope is averted, although it's mentioned and dismissed by the titular demon: magicians are often power-hungry and corrupt (like many [[Real Life]] politicians) and keep their knowledge to themselves as much as they can, so schools are out of the question; instead, the next generation of magicians are taken from parents who don't want them (since magicians are forbidden from having children) and taught singly by each magician.
* The titular [[The School in Carmarthen|''School'' ''in'' ''Carmarthen'']] is one of the university variety, pulling from the author's experiences from both sides of the education process.
* The University in Patrick Rothfuss' ''[[The Name of the Wind]]'', published in 2007, fits into this trope. It is the only school where you can learn the world's particular brand of sympathetic magic and is a boarding school set in a town that is based entirely around The University.
* ''[[Hell's Gate]]'' by [[David Weber]] has the Union of Arcana, a federation of magic using nations that have several. The two mentioned by name are Mythal Falls Academy, the oldest and most prestigious magical research and teaching Academy in Arcana and the Garth Showma Institute, the second largest magical academy anywhere (and whose prestige is rapidly overtaking that of the Mythal Falls Academy).
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* The Grevillian Institute in ''[[Doctrine of Labyrinths]]'' is one of the actual schools for wizards. Usually "school" refers to a school of thought.
* The Collegia Serevain in ''[[Collegia Magica]]''.
*
==Live-Action TV==
*The last few seasons of ''[[Charmed]]'' featured a magic school, which, like ''Negima'', was inspired by ''Harry Potter''. Earlier seasons never even hint at its existence and the young witches shown all had to learn how to use their powers without it.
*''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' had one of these in a ''Harry Potter'' parody, named 'Wiz Tech.'
*''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'': In the episode "Back to School", the [[Inept Mage]] Mannitol is forced to return to the wizarding school he flunked out of years ago in order to complete his training in a heavily [[Lampshaded]] parody of ''[[Harry Potter]]''.
==Tabletop Games==
*''[[GURPS]]'' does this at least twice:
**The ''Illuminati University'' setting covers more than just magic. Classes include hysteria and future history, the botany building is a tree, and destruction of any planetary bodies requires written permission from the Arch-Dean (who, according to rumor within the setting, is either a former angel, a former demon, or ''both'' - the art, done by Phil Foglio of ''[[Girl Genius]]'' fame, depicts her with both a halo and devil horns).
**''GURPS'' also has the ''Technomancer'' world, a [[Magitek]] setting where magic returned to the world with the first atomic explosion in 1945. Most schools in advanced magical countries have magical courses for basic spells, and doctorates in Thaumaturgy are available from most colleges and universities.
*In ''[[Shadowrun]]'' MIT becomes MIT&T ("Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thaumaturgy") post-Awakening, and is a top research school in both fields. Most universities followed suit. Notable is Charles University, where the Great Dragon Schwartzkopf is a lecturer.
*''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':
**The 'Known World' setting (aka [[Mystara]]) has a few of those, notably the Great School of Magic set in the wizard-ruled nation of Glantri.
**''[[Eberron]]'' of course has plenty of those. Notable is the Library of Korranberg, as well as the Flying Towers of Aundair, who have a very Hogwarts-like feel, including monsters and constructs roaming the halls, as well as dungeons filled with magical hazards and [[Malevolent Architecture]].
**''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has Thay, an [[Evil Empire]] with several academies to train their Red Wizards.
**''[https://dnd.wizards.com/products/strixhaven-curriculum-chaos Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos]'', is a campaign where the PCs are students at such an academy. there's even a grading system, where the PCs' missions are graded like exams, the better the marks, the better benefits they get upon advancing.
*There are a few in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', including the Conclave of Mages and the School of the Unseen from the Ice Age cycle, but the most important (and the one with the most [[Game Breaker|game-breaking card]]) is the Tolarian Academy.
*The Shugenja Dojo in [[Legend of the Five Rings]] also qualify
*The Heptagram in ''[[Exalted]]'', [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|of course]]. Think of it as Hogwarts meets ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' with more than a few elements of the aforementioned Scholomance. There used to be a second school on the same island, but... something happened... and now the old site is sowed with salt and covered with mystical sigils.
**''[[Exalted]]'' actually has a lot of these. Lookshy has an academy for those wanting to study [[Magitek]], the Sidereals have Department 137 of the Forbidding Manse of Ivy, and the Underworld has the Raiton Academy for the tutelage of necromancy.
*''[[Witch Girls Adventures]]'', of course. 4chan's /tg/ [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5772445/ took] [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5774945 a run] [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5778327 at it], and realized that it comes off as if the school is [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|teaching young witches to take horrible vengeance on anyone who irritates them in the slightest]]. And then [[Draco in Leather Pants|they started telling stories about the horrors of being in the organization that hunts them]].
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*The Eight Colleges of Magic in the [[Warhammer Fantasy|Warhammer Fantasy Universe]] train the magically gifted to be of use to the Empire. Of course, many potential students are killed by superstitious peasants before they get there, and using magic when you aren't a member of one of the colleges is punishable by being burnt alive at the stake. Not to mention, because of all this, if you do have magical aptitude you have the choice of either join, dying or being a fugitive.
**The Imperial Colleges might be the greatest centres of magical learning in the Old World, but they were founded comparatively recently (about 200 years before the present time) by the young High Elf Archmage Teclis, and only teach about magic split into its eight constituent colours - because that's all humans are capable of grasping without going utterly mad. The far more magically-adept High Elves have the White Tower of Hoeth in the kingdom of Saphery, where the full secrets of High Magic (which combines all eight colours into one harmonious whole) are studied and taught by its Loremasters. Teclis, who studied at the Tower, became High Loremaster of the institution after founding the Imperial colleges. It also teaches absurdly skilled ascetic warrior-scholars the arts of sword mastery, and these swordmasters act as the Tower's emissaries, guardians and agents in the outside world.
**The Dark Elves, by contrast have the Seven Convents of Sorceresses, based in Ghrond.
==Video Games==
===Games where a wizarding school is the primary setting:===
*''[[Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis]]'' is completely based around this trope, specializing in alchemy.
*Sorcerer University, for the first two games of ''[[The Spellcasting Series]]''. There are competing schools, but SU is depicted as the [[Ivy League]] of spellcraft.
*''[[Magicians Quest Mysterious Times]]'' is also based on this concept.
*In [[Wizard 101]], the game starts out inside a university dedicated to teaching magic. The University is devided into six schools: Fire, Storm, Ice, Life, Death, and Myth. Players start out as newly admitted students, and while they do not actually attend any classes in the games, most of the spells a character learns comes from the professors of those six schools. (Headmaster Ambrose also hands out a few spells as rewards for specific in game achievements.)
**Ravenwood also teaches a seventh school of magic, Balance, [[Fridge Logic|despite it not being given a classroom]]. Instead, it's classroom is hidden in Krokotopia. Students of this school learn their first few spells from another person that studied the basics of the school.
**The worlds of Dragonspyre and Celestia also had academies before they were destroyed by the Dragon and Storm Titans respectively. Fortunately enough of Celestia survived for the player to learn a few spells from the Sun, Moon, and Star schools.
**There is also the rival school of [[Expy|Pigswick]], which features the [[Expy]]s of Ravenwood's seven schools but with different names and almost backwards philosophies. Also only half the teachers there show any competence in there teaching. One even admits he has no idea what he's doing and is just using the previous proffesor's notes.
*''[[Academagia]]: The Making of Mages'' takes place in a complex non-Earth-based magical academy.
*[[Magical Diary: Horse Hall]] revolves around an American high school for witches and wizards. It's mostly a [[Dating Sim]] but you do learn and use spells as well.
*''[[Magical Starsign]]'' has two wizarding schools, which are central to the game's plot.
*The Silver Star Tower in ''[[Grim Grimoire]]''.
*Unsurprisingly, some Harry Potter videogames.
===Games where a wizarding school appears:===
*The academy and surrounding area in ''[[Angelique]]''.
*The
*The Red Wizard Academy in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]: Mask of the Betrayer''.
*The Heroes' Guild in ''[[Fable (video game series)|Fable]]'' teaches magic as one of three disciplines that students must learn before graduating.
*GUE Tech from ''The Lurking Horror'' and ''[[Zork: Grand Inquisitor|Zork: Grand Inquistor]]'' fits this.
*WIT from ''[[Quest for Glory|Quest for Glory II]]'' (WIT = Wizards Institute of Technocery), possibly a wink to the real life MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
*The Arcane University in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]''. Incidentally, we never get to see any schooling going on, other than public lectures on the courtyards - the whole building is locked off except for the ground and top floors, linked by teleporters. Still, [[Take Our Word for It|it's heavily implied that what goes on in there is pretty spectacular.]]
**Other centres of magical learning include the Crystal Tower of Summerset and the Psijic's Isle of Artaeum, neither featured in the games so far (at least not in their current roles).
**[[Skyrim]] has the College of Winterhold, which leans much more heavily on this trope, to the point where its questline might as well be called ''Harry Potter and the {{spoiler|Eye of Magnus}}''.
*Vane in ''[[Lunar Silver Star Story Complete|Lunar: The Silver Star]]'' and its remakes. And of course the magic school in ''Magic School Lunar'' and the earlier version ''Lunar: Walking School''.
*The Aurastery in Windurst in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]''. Unfortunately, mage [[Player Characters|PCs]] don't get to attend.
*''[[World of Warcraft]]'':
**The Academy of Arcane Arts and Sciences, housed in the Mage Tower, the centerpiece of the Mage Quarter in the human city of Stormwind. It has little signifigance in the actual game however, except providing a few mage trainers and mage-specific quests.
**The Scholomance (note the [[Shout-Out]] to the older version, see under Literature) instance is a Wizarding School catering entirely to ''necromancers.''
**Both Dalaran, a [[The Magocracy|magocracy]] and Silvermoon (not a magocracy though heavily influenced by the Magisters) are mentioned to have these too in background materials.
**Nar'thalas Academy in Azuna on the Broken Isles; it was, like most places in Azura, destroyed by the naga centuries ago, but the students and faculty - who are now ghosts - don't seem to know that. They assume you're there to enroll - which you are, though only until you find the artifact you need.
*New Shapers in ''[[Geneforge]]'' start at small academies to learn the basics. After that, they get apprenticed. Becoming a Shaper sucks.
*[[Breath of Fire|Breath of Fire II]]: There is a Magic School located in Hometown (they were really thinking outside the box with those names), which is where Nina is studying. Later on, you can also find the sorceress Deis/Bleu there, who claims learning through books is boring, and would rather go back out in the world to learn the good old-fashioned way.
*Magic use is one of the things taught at the [[Final Fantasy VIII|Gardens]], although they are more of an analogue for military academies.
*Princess Ceceilia of ''[[Wild ARMs 1|Wild ARMs]]'''s introduction begins with her taking leave from the local magical academy, and once the party is formed, you go back there to unlock the game's [[Summon Magic]] and kick off the plot.
*In ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'', Flenceburg houses a magic academy. Unfortunately, its top student attempted to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]] in order to get laid.
*The [[Nasuverse]]'s Mage Association is both this and a [[Magical Society]]. It's split into three competing 'Great Branches', further subdivided into various 'Departments' led by professors, and the like. It also has its own military force which can be brought to bear against either vampires, or [[The Church]], if the prologue to [[Tsukihime]] 2 is anything to go by.
*There are plenty of these in the world of [[Dragon Age]], with the twist that they also function as prisons to keep mages carefully supervised and away from the general population. As such the academic politics are even more fierce than normal, with the ever present idea of 'fireballing the guards' proving an attractive idea for many.
*[[Dragon Quest IX]] has [[Captain Ersatz|Swinedimples]] [[Harry Potter|Academy]]. Amusingly one of the students is a troublemaker named Fred.
*Scintillus Academy in [[Ultima Underworld]] II
==Web Comics==
*Warthogs, an obvious Hogwarts parody in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''.
*Orthorbbae in the webcomic ''[[Drowtales]]'' is a prime example, having classes for every school of magic. Math and history are also mentioned as being areas of study, and comics on other parts of the site indicate that there are many other subjects taught at higher levels.
*Wonderella accidentally volunteers to substitute at such a school in [http://nonadventures.com/2007/07/21/lack-magic-woman/ this page] of ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]''.
*[[Bardsworth]] university of the webcomic of the same name. Actually, it began as a college for bards, hence the name, but also teaches magic.
*Succubus and Incubus Academy in ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] - a Wizarding School for [[Horny Devils]].
*Used as part of a ''[[Harry Potter]]'' parody in the "Torg Potter" stories from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.
*''[[Magiversity]]'', the College of Mages, obviously.
*The Astorian Mage Academy from ''[[Code Name: Hunter]]''.
*The Elven Magic Academy from [[Murphy's Law (webcomic)|Murphy's Law.]]
*''[[Wizard School]]'' has Bumblebane's Magical Academy of the Wizarding Arts.
*The Everwood Magical University in ''[[Our Little Adventure]]''.
*The titular boarding school in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' is a subversion. Due to their strained relations with Gillitie Wood, they prefer to consider their studies ([[Magitek|even magical ones]]) as scientific, even though plenty of magic [[Extranormal Institute|occurs within the school grounds]] and the few gifted students regularly practice their abilities (though away from the teachers).
*''[[Thornsaddle]]'' is an American School of Witchcraft and Wizardry located somewhere in the deserts of Texas. It is part of the [[Harry Potter]] universe.
==Web Original==
*[[In-Joke|Martha Corey High School]] in Nowhere, Ohio, is a Wizarding School in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]''.
*''[[Grave Academy]]'s'' eponymous academy is one of these, the students are monsters, but they also teach things like: Medieval Torture, Divination and Mad Sciences.
*Memorial Academy in the ''[[Arcana Magi Universe]]'', featured prominently in ''[[Arcana Magi Memorial]]''.
*In ''[[Elcenia]]'', The Binaaralav Academy of Wizardry is one of the few schools of any type in Elcenia. Most skills are taught by the family; magic-use is one of the few anyone bothers to make an academy for.
==Western Animation==
*''[[Ultimate Book of Spells]]'' concerns three kids who are best friends and go to a magic school and who fight against an evil Wizard. One of them is a redhaired boy who is the least magically apt, and one of their teachers can turn herself into a cat... sound familiar?
*Alfea School for Fairies, Cloudtower, and Redfountain in ''[[Winx Club]]''.
*''[[The Simpsons]]'' briefly turned Springfield Elementary into one during a Halloween special short as part of yet another ''[[Harry Potter]]'' parody.
*Toadblatt's in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'', another Hogwarts parody.
*''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' briefly mentions Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, whose name is a [[Shout-Out]] to [[X-Men|Professor Xavier's School]]. There's also a reference to "magic kindergarten", which is likely [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: a school of magic for young unicorns.
*The Milkweed Academy for Wizards (a parody of [[Harry Potter|Hogwarts]]), Kyle's former school in [[Fanboy and Chum Chum]].
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