History Main / BoardingSchool

* The three schools in Strawberry Panic.

* Ashford Academy in ''CodeGeass''.

* The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, which is a seperate place from, and should not be confused with [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]]. That's right, the X-men had TWO boarding schools (before they moved to San Francisco).

* ''DeadPoetsSociety''

-->--'''ChristopherHitchens''', on ''RealTimeWithBillMaher''

* The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, which is a seperate place from, and should not be confused with [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]]. That's right, the X-men had TWO boarding schools(before they moved to San Franscico).

* Saint Paul's Private School in ''CandyCandy''.

* The main characters of ''OtomeWaBokuNiKoishiteru'' attend an all-girls boarding school. In fact, Mizuho's his dead grandfather states in his will that if Mizuho wants to properly become his heir, he must disguise himself as a girl and attend said school without being discovered. [[spoiler: Said boarding school also was the ''alma mater'' of Mizuho's MissingMom... and her dead roommate who had a massive crush on her returns as a ghost...]].

* One of the cases in {{Tantei Gakuen Q}} happens in a boarding school. Megu and Ryu are asked to pose as {{New Transfer Student}}s to find out the truth about a missing girl, and have to deal with the overbearing StudentCouncilPresident and the members of the Broadcasting Club. [[spoiler: The StudentCouncilPresident ends up murdered. And things go FromBadToWorse from then on.]]

* EvelynWaugh's first novel, ''Decline and Fall'', is largely set at one of these, though it concerns one of the tutors rather than the students themselves.

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. Except so far Houses seems not compete, but give a measure of separation keeping some minimal sanity and safety for everyone involved, given that the students evidently include borderline {{Mad Scientist}}s, reincarnated [[TheFairFolk Fairies]] and ''really unusual'' cases.

* ''Literature/{{Jennings}}''

* The yuri manga ''HeartThrobbingExcitementAtMononokeGirlsAcademy'' takes place in one of these.

* EnidBlyton's had three series centred around this, all of them pretty similar (although the ''Naughtiest Girl'' novels were unusually not set in a OneGenderSchool) - ''Literature/StClares'', ''Literature/MaloryTowers'' and ''TheNaughtiestGirl in the School''. Most of her other series' protagonists - e.g. those of the ''FamousFive'' books - are mentioned as attending these as well.

* The Creator/AgathaChristie novel ''Cat Among The Pigeons''.

* Gordon Korman's ''Bruno & Boots'' Series is a rare Canadian example.

* Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar novels have elements of this, particularly those set at the Collegia in Haven.

* ''House of Anubis'', where all the action takes place in a British Boarding School that was built originally as a real house for a famous archaeologist. Despite it's appearance and charm, it's more of a [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors boarding school of horrors.]]

* In {{Edgar Allan Poe}}'s short story ''William Wilson'', [[TheIshmael the narrator]] attended one of these in his youth.

* The beginning of ''Literature/JaneEyre'', though this predates the genre proper. Subverted in that the school tries to pretend that it is for wealthy girls when it's really the exact opposite: Lowood is a textbook BoardingSchoolOfHorrors and the girls there are horribly mistreated by orders of the HolierThanThou owner, despite the opposition of a more reasonable governess. [[spoiler: Until an epidemy unleashes there and several students die.]]

The misadventures of students at "public schools" (British term for private schools, which are commonly boarding schools) were once a staple of children's literature, but fell out of fashion in the sixties. Starting in the late 1990s, however, the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, a HeroicFantasy taking place in a [[WizardingSchool wizarding]] boarding school, revived many of its tropes.

* Garderobe Academy in ''{{Mai-Otome}}''.

* The TropeCodifier for the girls' boarding school story is the work (over fifty novels) of Angela Brazil, who had pretty much the exact same content but for girls of one or two generations earlier. They were the original source of most of the tropes that came to be regarded as boarding school cliches in later years, and suffered badly from SeinfieldIsUnfunny as a result.

* The other TropeMaker is ''Eric, or Little By Little'', by Frederic W Farrar, also first published in 1858. Farrar was a master at Marlborough College, although the novel is set at the fictional Roslyn School. Its reputation compared to Hughes' novel has suffered from its extremely melodramatic tone and overt religious fervour.

* The TropeCodifier, however, is the Greyfriars stories by Frank Richards, (real name Charles Hamilton), which have a page on this site under the name of their BreakoutCharacter, ''BillyBunter''.

* Likewise, nearly every one of the over fifty novels of Angela Brazil, who had pretty much the exact same content but for girls of one or two generations earlier. They were the original source of most of the tropes that came to be regarded as boarding school cliches in later years, and suffered badly from SeinfieldIsUnfunny as a result.

* ''TomBrownsSchooldays'', the [[TropeMaker genre-founder]].

* ''BillyBunter''

* The cult British film ''Film/{{If}}'' deconstructs this viciously. Most famous for launching MalcolmMcDowell.

* The school in ''PrincessPrincess''.

* ''TheEmperorsClub'' is about an American private school. This one's from the point of view of a teacher, the school is a good place, and it's all thoroughly in the tradition of molding boys into men, etc. There's still some of the "[[InadequateInheritor overbearing rich parent]] [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent damages adolescent son]]" [[Administrivia/DoWeHaveThisOne trope]], but that's treated as more of a sad fact of life than an indictment of the whole system.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is set in one of these. {{J.K. Rowling}}'s great achievement is not so much the fantasy fiction element of the Potter novels, but that she reinvented and breathed new life into what was by the start of the 21st Century a moribund cliché'd genre - the boarding school novel.
* ''Literature/{[Discworld}]'':- The other British author who has re-written the boarding school novel is Sir Terry Pratchett. In ''Pyramids'', he introduces the Assassins' Guild School as a parody of the boarding school novel - [[WordOfGod Pratchett has said]] that to visualise the School for Assassins, he ''took a typical British boarding school and turned all the knobs UpToEleven - especially the one labelled "violence"''.

* The main characters of ''OtomeWaBokuNiKoishiteru'' attend an all-girls boarding school. In fact, the condition for Mizuho to properly fulfill his dead grandfather's will is to disguise himself as a girl and attend said school without being discovered. [[spoiler: Said boarding school also was the ''alma mater'' of Mizuho's MissingMom... and her dead roommate who had a massive crush on her returns as a ghost...]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' continuum, author A.A. Pessimal has taken Terry Pratchett's concept of the boarding school - [[WordOfGod Pratchett famously said]] he ''took a typical British boarding school and turned all the knobs UpToEleven - especially the one labelled "violence"'' - and elaborated on it still further, adding more detail and new ideas, especially about the new tensions caused by the A.G. school going co-educational. Pessimal has written a few stories revolving round events at this singular school. A typical one might be [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8774066/1/There-s-nothing-like-a-fresh-pair-of-eyes-is-there Fresh Pair of Eyes]], or [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5055274/1/The-Graduation-Class The Graduation Class]], or [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5423228/1/Murder-Most-Orrible Murder MOst 'Orrible]].