List of fictional schools

For fictional universities, see List of fictional universities.

This is a list of fictional schools as portrayed in various media.

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]

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, in stories by H. P. Lovecraft
• 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

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]
• Grange Hill School in BBC's television drama series, Grange Hill, set in the fictional North London borough of Northam^[5]
• Starfleet Academy, located in San Francisco, California in the fictional Star Trek universe.

Magic schools

A magic school/academy/university 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.

Folklore

• The Black School, where the Icelandic priest and scholar Sæmundr fróði supposedly learned magic from the Devil^[6]
• Domdaniel
• The Cave at Salamanca where the Devil supposedly taught,^[7][8] among others, Pope Sylvester II
• The Scholomance, a legendary school of black magic in Transylvania^[9][10]

In a series

Dungeons and Dragons

See also: Magic of Dungeons & Dragons § Magic system

• Arcanix in Aundair from the Eberron campaign setting^[11][12]
• Morgrave University in Sharn from the Eberron campaign setting^[11][12]
• Soltryce Academy in Rexxentrum, the capital of the Dwendalian Empire, from the Wildemount campaign setting; premiered in Critical Role's second campaign^[13]
• Sorcere, part of the academy of Menzoberranzan, where drow mages learn magic; from the Forgotten Realms campaign setting^[14][15]
• Strixhaven, a magical university located in the plane of Arcavios from the Magic: The Gathering multiverse^[16][17]

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^[18]
• Uagadou in Uganda^[18]
• Mahoutokoro in Japan^[18]
• Castelobruxo (pronounced cah-stelo-bru-sho) in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil^[18]

Others

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