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* In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' comics, Future Foundation, a Think Tank/school Reed Richards put together for genius or extremely gifted youth including his own children and other super-heroes.

* ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy''. The staff include Kirk Langstrom and Hugo Strange, the headmaster has a costumed identity as The Custodian, and there are secret tunnels linking it to Arkham. The main character, Olive Silverlock, is descended from a long line of supervillains with some kind of link to the school.
* The Lovecraft Academy from ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey''. The main cast attend the school, and before them, so did their Dad. Needless to say, the main 'big' mystery of the series revolves around what happened to their father and his friends during their school days.
* This is the ''setting'' for ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'', which is about an Adventure ''Elementary'' School filled with superpowered children. Despite their best efforts, they don't do that great a job of keeping the super powered danger away.

* In ''ComicBook/StaticShock'', 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.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' comics:

** After the above school is destroyed, Wolverine opens the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Its students include a brood, and one of the teachers is the time travelling child of the namesake Jean Grey. Homework is basically training for adventuring, e.g jetpacking and snow ball fights.
** ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} opens the New Xavier Institute. It is located at the old Weapon X Facility, the place that gave Wolverine his unbreakable skeleton and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sharp-ass claws]], and the students regularly go out on missions with the teachers. Said teachers consist of: A mutant revolutionary who shoots lasers from his eyes, and is wanted for the murder of Charles Xavier, a mutant telepath who can turn her skin into diamond and wears {{Stripperific}} outfits, [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} a mutant Nazi-survivor who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] mutant sorceress who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels.

* ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsIveGotHenchmen'': Northeast West Hollywood Middle turns into a place where weirdness is just accepted. Such as:
** The protagonist is a MadScientist prone to inventive fugue states

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics:

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Holliday College is a women's college near Washington D.C. which Franchise/WonderWoman frequently visited, and where there were frequent attacks by Nazis, pirates, masked villains, and extraterrestrials which the vast majority of the student body absolutely loved fighting off. Many of the Holliday Girls were trained in [[SupernaturalMartialArts Amazonian martial arts]] and ComicBook/SteveTrevor was just as happy to rely on ComicBook/EttaCandy and her Holliday Girls paramilitary club to watch his back during missions as he was to have other USAAF personnel along.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':

* Series/{{Smallville}} High was one of these, with plenty of students and teachers turning into insane monsters and/or dying horribly. Plus Franchise/{{Superman}} was also a student there...

* ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'''s Hope's Peak Academy, where only students with super-talents are admitted (though those talents do not need to be productive.) Then they start killing each other.

* 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 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.

* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': {{Justified|Trope}}. Kimberly Magic Academy is a WizardingSchool built on top of a labyrinth that is full of monsters, dangerous environments, and unhinged upperclassmen who have no qualms about harming fellow students. The school provides very little protection from any of these things and it's up to the students themselves to look out for each other, which is intended as TrainingFromHell for an order of {{Military Mage}}s called GnosticHunters.

* The Berk Dragon Training Academy in ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'' is an institution commissioned by Stoick the Vast and granted to his son Hiccup to learn about dragons, record their studies for the tribe and better acclimate dragons into their lives after Hiccup made peace with them in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. Whenever there is [[MonsterOfTheWeek a dragon attack]] or an invasion from an enemy group (the Outcasts, Berserkers, Dragon Hunters, etc.), the team either tries making peace or chases them off on dragon back. The academy is composed of Hiccup, his dragon Toothless, and the other dragon riders that helped defeat the Red Death, later expanding the number of members when a new team was needed.

* [[WizardingSchool Wildcliff, School of the Arcane]], the main setting of ''Podcast/TrialsAndTrebuchets'', seems to attract an inordinate amount of danger for the PlayerCharacters to get caught up in.

* Coal Hill School in ''Series/DoctorWho'' and its spinoff ''Series/{{Class}}'' -- it has had three of the Doctor's companions (or four, depending on how you define 'companion') as teachers, at least three aliens as staff or students (Susan, Charlie and Ms. Quill) and the Doctor himself as a caretaker. All this timey-wimey activity has made the school a hotspot for tears in time through which all manner of alien threats emerge.

* ''Literature/LevelOneStrongestSage'' features mage academy. Since the goal is teaching the students practical combat magic, tactics, and strategies, the classroom has monster hunting competitions, monthly inter-class duels, and field-trips to foreign countries through routes where guarding against monsters and bandits is routine.

* ''LightNovel/LevelOneStrongestSage'' features mage academy. Since the goal is teaching the students practical combat magic, tactics, and strategies, the classroom has monster hunting competitions, monthly inter-class duels, and field-trips to foreign countries through routes where guarding against monsters and bandits is routine.

** Hoshinomiya Fuuka Academy in ''LightNovel/MaiHimeDestiny'', where most of the main characters possess PsychicPowers to some degree.

* Kuoh Academy in ''Literature/HighSchoolDxD'' attracts all sorts of strange students, starting with two packs of devils and eventually including an angel, a fallen angel, and a Valkyrie, among others. It turns out that as well as being a legitimate place of education for humans, devils use it as a front to give themselves [[SafetyInMuggles a safe haven]] during daylight hours and a base of operations at night.

* Creator/HPLovecraft's Miskatonic University probably counts, insofar as its faculty and student body seem to be almost unfairly magnetized to Unfortunate Incidents of an eldritch variety.
* ''Literature/MiskatonicUniversityElderGods101'' is an updated LighterAndSofter version of HP Lovecraft's famous university for a UrbanFantasy series. It is not only an Ivy League school on the East Coast but also the lodestone for protecting Earth's dimension from being absorbed by other more hostile ones.

* Academic Cities in ''LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios'', which are giant walking cities run and populated entirely by students and specialized for education and providing for students' needs, like a giant university town. Combines this with CityOfAdventure.

* Raira Academy in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' had a reputation for this thanks to the antics of [[HairTriggerTemper Shizuo]] [[SuperStrength Heiwajima]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Izaya]] [[TheChessmaster Orihara]] -- Shinra can list off half a dozen {{Noodle Incident}}s at any given time. It was bad enough that, after their graduation, Raira had to merge with another school and rebuild their image from scratch. They succeeded...up until an ex-gang leader, the host of a HiveMind-controlling EvilWeapon, the head of the Dollars, the [[StalkerWithACrush stalker to end all stalkers]], and some kid [[ALoveToDismember in love with a severed head]] all end up enrolling in the same year. The real irony is that the school is actually ''less'' chaotic than it was six years back.

* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'''s True Cross Academy is this, due to being also a base for the Knights of the True Cross aka [[DemonSlaying Exorcists]] and where the Japan Branch's cram school/training academy for budding exorcists is. Also, the Headmaster is a demon [[spoiler: more specifically one of the Demon Kings and second eldest Satanic son]] and our main (and titular) character is the [[HeroicBastard bastard]] [[HalfHumanHybrid Son]] of {{Satan}}, aka the resident living WeirdnessMagnet that amps up the weird.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Duel Academy. Doesn't help that it's on an island, and thus almost the only setting where any dueling takes place...

* The entire point of tutoring in either the School of Righteousness and Honor or Doom Valley Prep School is to teach the students how to be effective warriors, but with the latter, the students don't just have to worry about whatever TrainingFromHell the teachers think up, but they have to worry about each other, as the bullies have no qualms going as far as straight-up murder to hobble the competition, as long as they don't get caught.

* ''Series/StrangeHillHigh'': The story follows the unusual and absurd occurrences that happen at the inner-city school `Strange Hill High'. Students Mitchell, Tanner, Becky Butters and Templeton find themselves in the middle of every event, as they try to unravel the school's secrets and mysteries.

* In the martial arts movie ''Film/The36thChamberOfShaolin'', the Shaolin monastery's 35 Chambers of Kung Fu are emphatically ''not'' this trope: they teach incredible kung fu skills, but graduates of the program are expected to stick around as instructors and, this being a monastery, live cloistered lives of seclusion. The movie's hero, San Te, insists that the monastery's knowledge could be put to better use, and [[SpoilerTitle at the end of the movie he establishes the 36th Chamber]], where he teaches kung fu skills to laymen, allowing them to [[HeroOfAnotherStory go and have adventures of their own]] outside of Shaolin.

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': Luna Nova Academy, a [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]] {{expy}} is naturally this. Given the nature of their mindboggling spells, encounters with monsters, and [[EvilTeacher a professor that may or may not be experimenting with a]] DoomsdayDevice, it's safe to say Akko and her friends are in no shortage of adventure.

* Every ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' game has one so far. ''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}} Megami Ibunroku: Persona]]'' has Saint Hermelin High, ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'' has Seven Sisters High and Kasugayama High, ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' has Gekkoukan High, ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has Yasogami High, and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' has Shujin Academy.