List of fictional schools

St Trinnean's Academy for Young Ladies was one of the real-life inspirations for the fictional girls' school of St Trinian's

The squalid Dotheboys Hall in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby was inspired by a real school in Bowes.^[1]

This is a list of fictional schools as portrayed in various media. Universities and other degree-granting institutions are listed in List of fictional universities.

Literature

Main articles: School story and Campus novel

• Camden College
• Chalet School, in books by Elinor Brent-Dyer
• Greyfriars School, in books by Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards
• Jade Mountain Academy, featured in Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire series^[2]
• The Little Female Academy, in Sarah Fielding's 1754 book.^[3]
• Lowood Institution, in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Malory Towers, in books by Enid Blyton
• Miskatonic University
• St Trinian's School, in comic books by Ronald Searle and later films
• Sweet Valley High
• Redmond College, in Lucy Maud Montgomery's series of works related to Anne of Green Gables

Comics

• Hudson University

Film

• Monsters University

Television

Main article: List of television series about school

• Ackley Bridge College in Channel 4's television drama series, Ackley Bridge, set in the fictional Yorkshire mill town of Ackley Bridge^[4]
• For-Profit Online University
• Grange Hill School in BBC's television drama series, Grange Hill, set in the fictional North London borough of Northam^[5]
• Hudson University
• Mars University, Futurama
• Pembroke University, a small university "in what seems like New England", the setting for 2021 Netflix series The Chair^[6][7]

Others

• Starfleet Academy, located in San Francisco, California in the fictional Star Trek universe.

Magic schools

A magic school is an institution for learning magic, appearing in works of fantasy depicting worlds in which magic exists and in which there is an organized society of magicians or wizards who pass on their knowledge systematically. It may also be a school that is magically protected or a Faculty of Magic in a university which also teaches other subjects. More loosely, also a place where a single wizard teaches an apprentice can count as a magic school.

Folklore

• The Black School, where the Icelandic priest and scholar Sæmundr fróði supposedly learned magic from the Devil^[8]
• Domdaniel
• The Cave at Salamanca where the Devil supposedly taught,^[9][10] among others, Pope Sylvester II
• The Scholomance, a legendary school of black magic in Transylvania^[11][12]

In a series

Dungeons and Dragons

See also: Magic of Dungeons & Dragons § Magic system

• Arcanix in Aundair from the Eberron campaign setting^[13][14]
• Morgrave University in Sharn from the Eberron campaign setting^[13][14]
• Soltryce Academy in Rexxentrum, the capital of the Dwendalian Empire, from the Wildemount campaign setting; premiered in Critical Role's second campaign^[15]
• Sorcere, part of the academy of Menzoberranzan, where drow mages learn magic; from the Forgotten Realms campaign setting^[16][17]
• Strixhaven, a magical university located in the plane of Arcavios from the Magic: The Gathering multiverse^[18][19]

Harry Potter series

See also: Fictional universe of Harry Potter

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland
• Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in France
• Durmstrang Institute for Magical Learning between the border of Norway and Sweden
• Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in North America^[20]
• Uagadou in Uganda^[20]
• Mahoutokoro in Japan^[20]
• Castelobruxo (pronounced cah-stelo-bru-sho) in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil^[20]

Others

• Balamb Garden, a magic school featured in Final Fantasy VIII. Other "gardens" in this game include Galbadia Garden and Trabia Garden.
• Unseen University in the Discworld books of Terry Pratchett
• University of Salamanca Faculty of Magic in The Charwoman's Shadow by Lord Dunsany
• Meng School [zh] in the Taiwanese TV series

See also

• List of fictional British and Irish universities

References

Citations

1. Photographic reproduction of Dotheboys Hall, Bowes, 1841, British Library, 1841
2. Sieben, Cole S. (2022-07-01). "Mastery of Morality and Wings of Fire". Substack. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
3. Clark, Beverley Lyon; Shankar, Lavina Dhingra (October 1994), "When Women Tell Tales About School", Studies in Popular Culture, 17 (1): 17–20, JSTOR 23413787
4. Bley Griffiths, Eleanor (25 June 2019). "When is Ackley Bridge on TV? Who's in the cast and what's going to happen?". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
5. "Grange Hill makes Mersey debut". BBC. 28 January 2003. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
6. Mangan, Lucy (20 August 2021). "The Chair review – Sandra Oh is first class in moreish university satire". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
7. Millman, Zosha (20 August 2021). "Netflix's 'The Chair' Skewers Liberal Arts Education". Bustle. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
8. Mitchell, Stephen A. (2011). Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 225, n30, 260, n25. ISBN 978-0-8122-0371-4. OCLC 794700632.
9. Waxman, Samuel Montefiore (1916). Chapters on Magic in Spanish Literature. imprimerie F. Paillart. p. 77.
10. Thorpe, Benjamin (1852). Northern Mythology, Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and the Netherlands: Compiled from Original and Other Sources. North German and Netherlandish popular traditions and superstitions. Lumley. p. 63.
11. Miller, Elizabeth (2005). Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Volume. Detroit: Thomson Gale. p. 183. ISBN 0-7876-6841-9. OCLC 56050978.
12. Majuru, Adrian (2006), "Khazar Jews. Romanian History And Ethnography", Plural Magazine, 27: 234
13. "D&D: Fantastic Locations In The Eberron Campaign". TheGamer. 2021-08-16. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
14. Baker, Keith (2004). Eberron: Campaign Setting. Bill Slavicsek, James Wyatt. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 978-0-7869-3274-0. OCLC 55943911.
15. Mercer, Matthew (2020). Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. James Haeck, James Introcaso, Chris Lockey, Even Amundsen. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 978-0-7869-6691-2. OCLC 1139657849.
16. James, Brian R. (2012). Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue. Eric Menge. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast LLC. ISBN 978-0-7869-6036-1. OCLC 808135830.
17. "D&D: With Menzoberranzan Getting An Update Here's Where It Once Stood - An Adventurer's Guide". Bell of Lost Souls. 2021-05-29. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
18. Nelson, Samantha (December 6, 2021). "D&D's Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos understands what makes college memorable". Polygon. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
19. "Strixhaven, Magic: The Gathering's Newest Set, Is Hogwarts Without The Terf". Kotaku. February 19, 2021. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
20. Hughes, WilliM (January 30, 2016). "J.K. Rowling announces four new wizarding schools you'll never get to attend". AV Club. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

Sources

• Alexander H. Pitofsky (2014), American Boarding School Fiction, 1928-1981, McFarland, ISBN 9780786478651
• Nancy G. Rosoff; Stephanie Spencer (2019), British and American School Stories, 1910–1960, Springer, ISBN 9783030059866
• Jeffrey Richards (1988), Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction, Manchester University Press, ISBN 9780719027758
• Silke Braselmann (2019), The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, ISBN 9783110649017
• Jo Keroes (1999), Tales Out of School, SIU Press, ISBN 9780809322381
• L. Spolton (1963), "The Secondary School in Post‐war Fiction", British Journal of Educational Studies, 11 (2): 125–141, doi:10.1080/00071005.1963.9973093