History Main / AcademyOfAdventure

* In ''Fanfic/ASagaOfParallelWorlds'', the [[FictionalVideoGame fictional Metroidvania]] known as ''Spy School'' is set in an academy with labyrinthine mazes, a laser trap training room and many different items to collect.

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[[caption-width-right:316:You ''wish'' your school was this badass.]]

* WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} features the Huntmen Academies of the Four Kingdoms, which train the next generation of Huntsmen and Huntresses to keep civilization safe from [[OurMonstersAreDifferent the Grimm]]. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that they double as the secret resting places of four powerful {{MacGuffin|s}}]].

* ''School For Adventurers ''IS this trope.

* In "Podcast/DungeonsandDoctorates" Firamustus University is one of the largest education institutions on the continent (if not the world). It has everything a major university would have, but magnified due to the fantastical setting. With an Alchemy Department instead of Chemistry, Artificers instead of Engineering, a Necromancy Department, Barbarians studying Sports Medicine and numerous student societies that could incite events (the Adventurers Appreciation Society and Enigma Society, especially), there is never a dull week for the characters.

* Famous Website/YouTube contributor Creator/FreddieWong directs the Website/YouTube series ''WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool'', in which becoming a professional video game player is a legitimate and lucrative career, and graduates from VGHS are assured a successful future. Students don't study physics, but physics engines; they don't play varsity football, but varsity FPS. If your class rank drops below zero, then you're expelled. NaiveNewcomer Brian. D gets lucky and earns admittance into the school by winning against VGHS's stop student, ArrogantKungFuGuy, The Law.

* Somewhat {{Zig-Zagged}} by Jade Mountain Academy in Literature/WingsOfFire. The school was founded in the aftermath of a twenty-year-long war to educate dragonets from the different warring cultural groups and prevent future wars. The hope was that the dragonets would come to see each other as friends and realize that they’re all not so different after all. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Of course, having former child soldiers who fought on different sides become roommates backfires massively]], with a [[AxesAtSchool bomb plot killing two students and injuring another just two days after the grand opening]]. Two weeks after the school opens, and the student population has dropped from 35 to 23 as a combined result of a series of incidents (including the aforementioned bomb plot) resulting in two deaths and several students running off. There’s also hints that several other students may have elected to pack up and go home off-screen. The icing on the cake is a literal battle being fought over the school. By now, Jade Mountain Academy has garnered a reputation as a place where frequently lethal chaos occurs on a regular basis, leading many of the dragon queens to be reluctant about a second attempt. However, it’s now been approximately six months into the new attempt, with nothing noteworthy having gone down, and plot focus has moved away from the school.

*** In ''Innocent Sin'', Seven Sisters High, named after the Pleiades, has a clock tower haunted by the ghost of a teacher who apparently commited suicide there, and the Naruhatu stone in the back yard serves as an entrance to the mystical Silver River which leads to Xibalba. In addition, there is a curse which [[FacialHorror melts the face of the students]], and the statue of the principal is oving somehow. Not to mention all the demons that invaded the school. [[spoiler:Eventually this trope is subverted when it turns out that all this nonesense is caused by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelive the rumour curse]] and the school was never supposed to have supernatural properties.]] None of these things apply in ''Eterna; Punishment'', but in both games it serves as the first dungeon of the game.

** Subverted in ''VideoGame/Persona5''. Shujin Academy is technically the first dungeon, but that's because it's connected to the [[MentalWorld Palace]] of the gym teacher. Nothing odd happens at the school itself (save for the gym teacher's behavior) in the real world, and once the Phantom Thieves get rid of the Palace and the gy teacher quits, the school goes back to being completely normal.

%%* Every ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' game has one so far. ''VideoGame/Persona1'' has Saint Hermelin High, ''VideoGame/Persona2'' has Seven Sisters High and Kasugayama High, ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has Gekkoukan High, ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has Yasogami High, and ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has Shujin Academy.

* Every ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' game has one so far. ''VideoGame/Persona1'' has Saint Hermelin High, ''VideoGame/Persona2'' has Seven Sisters High and Kasugayama High, ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has Gekkoukan High, ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has Yasogami High, and ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has Shujin Academy.

* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire''. This is the natural consequence of creating a school to teach monsters with poor self control how to maintain the {{Masquerade}}. Especially when you trick a [[{{Muggle}} human]] into going there.

* The school ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'' definitely applies.
* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'s'' Mayview Middle School.

* The eponymous college in ''Webcomic/TalesOfGnosisCollege''.

* ''ComicBook/Static'': It's justified in that the [[SuperSerum chemical explosion]] that caused the "Bang Babies" happened at a popular local gang hangout near Virgil's school.