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* Whispering Rock Summer Camp in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.

* The [[OtomeGame otome]] VisualNovel ''[[VisualNovel/{{Planets}} (P)lanets]]'' has a designated high school called the [[FunWithAcronyms Psychokinesis Learning Academy for New and Exciting Tactical Studies]] for teenagers with PsychicPowers.

* Creator/DianaWynneJones's magical university in ''Literature/DarkLordOfDerkholm'''s sequel, ''Year of the Griffin''.

*** ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has Camp Half-Blood, a camp for Greek Demigods
*** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' has Camp Jupiter, which is basically just [[RecycledInSpace a Roman version of Camp Half-Blood]]
** ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' has Institutes for the Egyptian Magicians
** ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'' has ''Main/Valhalla''

* Creator/RickRiordan LOVES this trope, especially in works that form part of his shared universe of mythologies
** ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has Camp Half-Blood, a camp for Greek Demigods
** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' has Camp Jupiter, which is basically just [[RecycledInSpace a Roman version of Camp Half-Blood]]

* Hogwarts may be the most obvious instance of this from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, but other places inhabited solely by wizards are similar examples: Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade, for example. There are other wizarding schools located in this 'verse, most notably the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic (France) and the Durmstrang Institute (Sweden or Norway). The film version of ''The Goblet of Fire'' makes it appear that these schools are all-girl and all-boy, respectively, but the books reveal that this is not the case. The Salem Witches Institute, however, may be all-girl.

** Primatech (called the Company before we learned more about it) seems like a typical "government agency rounding up the superhumans" thing until it's shown that superhumans are actually in charge of it; specifically a group of evolved humans who preferr to keep the existence of their kind secret, but help those that they round up get a hold on their powers.

* The town of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' from the TV series of the same name, where everyone is a MadScientist.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' featured two:
** Primatech (called the Company before we learned more about it) seemed like a typical "government agency rounding up the superhumans" thing until we learned that superhumans were actually in charge of it; specifically a group of evolved humans who preferred to keep the existence of their kind secret, but helped those they rounded up get a hold on their powers.
** Sullivan Bros. Carnival was a safe haven for evolved humans, who could simply pretend their skills were carnival acts. It was much less morally ambiguous than Primatech, at least until the guy in charge was murdered by his brother Samuel, who subsequently took over.
* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' is about a clinic that helps 'abnormals' (mutant humans and cryptids with strange abilities). One of their employees is a Sasquatch, yet he is treated as if he was simply a misunderstood human being.
* An episode of ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' has Raven briefly join an institute for teens with various PsychicPowers.
--> '''Student''': I'll get it!
--> ''Doorbell sounds''.
* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', the Torchwood hub has a pet pterodactyl, which is probably one of the more mundane fixtures.

* St. Jerome's in ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' is one of the world's most exclusive daycares. This is because it caters to Offspring -- the HalfHumanHybrid children of the Unchained -- in all their various forms. "Ordinary" Offspring have one or more low-level RealityWarper traits. Fractals, having a more potent concentration of demon in their bio-quantum signature, are even more powerful than Offspring and can see through demonic Cover. Thusly, you have a daycare full of children who can do things like make you an {{Unperson}} or pull things out of {{Hammerspace}}.
** For extra weirdness, St. Jerome's may also potentially house Nephilim, the most powerful kind of half-demon, who have demonic forms and enough power to go toe-to-toe with ''angels''.
* ''TabletopGame/GURPSIlluminatiUniversity'', which covers more than just magic. Classes include hysteria and future history, the botany building is a tree, and destruction of any planetary bodies requires written permission from the Arch-Dean (who, according to rumor within the setting, is either a former angel, a former demon, or ''both''). The favorite sport of IOU (you're not cleared to know what the 'O' stands for) is Moopsball, which... well... [[http://www.eblong.com/zarf/moopsball/index.html just look at the rules]].
** The various Colleges within the greater University are mostly devoted to various genres of adventure:
*** The College of Temporal Happenstance, Ultimate Lies and Historical Undertakings (C.T.H.U.L.H.U.)[[note]]''Always'' pronounce the periods[[/note]] centers around time travel.
*** The College of W.U.S.E. (Weird and Unusual Science and Engineering) is made of mad scientists, slightly-less-mad students of Science! and devotees of The Computer (the A.I. that controls, among other things, student schedules and dorm assignments).
*** SPCA (School of Performing and Creative Arts) teaches classes in drama, melodrama, villain monologs, and applied courtesanship, among others.
*** COUP (College of Obscure and Unhealthy Professions) trains future spies, super-spies, ninjas, powers-behind-the-throne, IRS agents and the like.
*** The School of Social Anti-Sciences (a parody of pure academia and liberal arts majors) conflicts with the College of Zen Surrealism, since the first resents the second for being obscure and pointless ''on purpose,'' rather than concentrating on pure academics and only achieving obscure pointlessness as a side-effect.
*** The College of Communication mainly addresses propaganda, misinformation, and creating conspiracy theories for fun and profit.
*** The School of Conservative Arts (parodying liberal arts and conservative politics) teaches classes like Political Architecture 101: Empire Building for Fun and Profit.
*** The College of Metaphysics is a Wizarding School plunked into a genre stew, with majors like Applied Theology (with classes like AT 102: How to Start Your Own Church and AT 401: World Building in 7 Days or Less) and Political Thaumaturgy.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars is the biggest, only-est source of scientific and engineering knowledge in the Imperium. In keeping with the medieval parallels, it's equivalent to guild-style education facilities, even steeping their work in a "secret society" flavor. In fact, they lay it on so thick that they're more of a cult that worships technology (ironically viewing actual ''inventiveness'' as heretical). Basically your average Mechanicus-controlled planet is a seminary for cyborg mechanic-priests.
** That's not to mention the Schola Progenium (a combination of [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Catholic school and boot camp]] reserved for the [[OrphanageOfFear orphaned children]] of war heroes- graduates stand a good chance of becoming commissars or storm troopers) or the Scholastica Psykana (which trains psykers to control their powers after abducting them from their homes. By the way, fail to make the cut, and you get sacrificed to the Emperor).

** After the above school is destroyed, ComicBook/{{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. Students also include a galactic ProudWarriorRaceGuy, time travellers, and the front lawn is a mutant.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops 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, [[Characters/EmmaFrostWhiteQueen a mutant telepath who can turn her skin into diamond]] and wears {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto a mutant Nazi-survivor terrorist who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] [[ComicBook/{{Magik}} mutant sorceress]] who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels.

** Zigzagged with the Institutes. Despite their educational-sounding name, they function more as enclaves or embassies of Shadowhunters outside of their home country, Idris, providing both living quarters and space for them to practice runes without alerting the [[{{Muggle}} mundanes]]. Aside from the people who run them, the only people who live in the Institutes are their relatives and those who have nobody or nowhere else to go (basically, orphanages), as most Shadowhunters prefer to mingle with the mundanes.

* The Institutes, and by extension the (Con)clave in ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''.

* ''Anime/IlSolePenetraLeIllusioni'': Sephiro Fiore maintains the girls' education under the guise of a fortune-telling school while sending them out to fight monsters.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops 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, [[Characters/EmmaFrostWhiteQueen a mutant telepath who can turn her skin into diamond]] and wears {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto a mutant Nazi-survivor terrorist who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] [[Characters/{{Magik}} mutant sorceress]] who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels.

** Specifically, DWMA has two curricula: NOT (Normally Overcome Target) class and EAT (Especially Advantaged Talent) class. The majority of students belong to the NOT class, which serves mainly as a way for students to learn how to control their weapon forms. Exceptional students can be moved to the EAT class, which specifically trains its students to fight evil, and makes up about 10% of the student body.

* ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'', eponymous academy from the awesome books, is a school where vampyres learn how to behave in society. It also helps students deal with the Change- in this particular mythology, vampyres are not made by biting but as the result of a biochemical change, which, once it has started, either leads to becoming a full-fledged vampyre or dying.

* The Research Technical Institute from Doug [=TenNapel's=] ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'' is a warehouse and lab for cataloguing and studying everything that the U.S. Government can't explain. This includes disintegration guns, were-pigs, Cold War Russian teleporters, and the real ShroudOfTurin. The building is also haunted by the ghost of a mad scientist.

** UsefulNotes/LasVegas is apparently also an example in the ''[=PS238=]'' universe, being a place of neutral ground for superheroes and supervillains to go when they want a vacation.

** 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, [[ComicBook/EmmaFrost a mutant telepath who can turn her skin into diamond]] and wears {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} a mutant Nazi-survivor terrorist who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] [[ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin mutant sorceress]] who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels.

* ''Fanfic/{{Pokeumans}}'': The Pokeuman bases, which are like normal school except that all the students are humans that have been transformed into Pokemon. And as a result, their lessons include 'Battle Class'. [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Pokextinction]] has similar bases, except they also brainwash their students to obey Mr. X and join his side of the war.

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* While on the subject of Youkai and high school, Youkai Academy in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', where the teacher is a CatGirl and the students are any and every type of monster imaginable. Except for Tsukune, the lone human, [[spoiler:or at least, he used to be]], who got there by accident. All the students are required to stay in human form constantly as practice, which is [[SarcasmMode lucky for the one actual human there,]] as there is a rule that states any human who comes across Youkai Academy will be executed. Of course, [[spoiler: he manages to escape this fate when one of his harem injects him with vampire blood to temporarily change him into a vampire and trick the rest of the school. Later on, a more permanent transformation occurred and this trope no longer applied]].

* While on the subject of Youkai and high school, Youkai Academy in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', where the teacher is a CatGirl and the students are any and every type of monster imaginable. Except for Tsukune, the lone human ([[spoiler:or at least, he used to be]]) who got there by accident. All the students are required to stay in human form constantly as practice, which is [[SarcasmMode lucky for the one actual human there,]] as there is a rule that states any human who comes across Youkai Academy will be executed. Of course, [[spoiler: he manages to escape this fate when one of his harem injects him with vampire blood to temporarily change him into a vampire and trick the rest of the school. Later on, a more permanent transformation occurred and this trope no longer applied]].

* [[Manga/UruseiYatsura Tomobiki High]] and, to a lesser extent, [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Fuurinkan High]] from Creator/RumikoTakahashi's Nerima. Aliens, ghosts, demons, exorcists, supernatural martial artists, oh my!

** 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 {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} a mutant Nazi-survivor terrorist who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] mutant sorceress who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels.

* St Merlin's University from the Literature/MediochreQSethSeries is a university on the other side of the {{masquerade}}. Subjects include [[PostModernMagick technomancy]], [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dracology]] and [[TheUndead zontanecrology]].

* ''EVERYONE'' at ''[[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Mahora Academy]]'' (or at least MANY) seems to be abnormal in some way. You have vampires, ninjas, time-travelling Martians from the future, robots, mad scientists, mages, [[spoiler:princesses]], ghosts.... And that's not even touching the tip of the iceberg. And yet, somehow the majority of the student body seem to be {{Muggles}}.

* ''Fanfic/{{Royal Heights}}'' entirely revolves around the school in the title itself, Royal Heights Academy, a school within the dimension Utopia traveled to by portal creating jets that is entirely riffed with TechnologyPorn and houses a multitude of students of differing species from multiple dimensions.
* ''Fanfic/{{Troll Cops}}'' gives us SEER, the [[FunWithAcronyms Society for the Elevation of Ectotechnological Research]], a sort of Wiki/SCPFoundation pastiche led by Rose Lalonde and including most of the city's active vigilante superheroes.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': The Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars is the biggest, only-est source of scientific and engineering knowledge in the Imperium. In keeping with the medieval parallels, it's equivalent to guild-style education facilities, even steeping their work in a "secret society" flavor. In fact, they lay it on so thick that they're more of a cult that worships technology (ironically viewing actual ''inventiveness'' as heretical). Basically your average Mechanicus-controlled planet is a seminary for cyborg mechanic-priests.

* In VideoGame/TheCouncilOfHanwell, the small titular town can somehow afford a huge science facility to research the anomalies.

* In ''WebComic/SkinHorse'', the eponymous tight-budget American nonhuman sapient protection project shares the Annex One building with the Clerk of the Clerk of Clerks, the Department of Jetpack Suppression, the Department of Precambrian Defense, the Feline Trauma Project, the Department of Irradiation, etc.

* [[http://iofm.comicgenesis.com/ The Institute Of Metaphysics]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'' has Magellan Justice Academy on Magellan Island.

* The titular school of ''Webcomic/OverlordAcademy''.
* The Repository of Dangerous Things from [[http://www.dangerousthings.net/ the webcomic of the same name]].

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* ''Manga/SoulEater'' has the macabre "Death Weapon Meister Academy" lead by TheGrimReaper. Has an eclectic mix of (usually human) "Meisters", and their (usually human) [[EquippableAlly "Weapons"]].

* While on the subject of Youkai and high school, Youkai Academy in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', where the teacher is a CatGirl and the students are any and every type of monster imaginable. Except for Tsukune, the lone human ([[spoiler:or at least, he used to be]]) who got there by accident. All the students are required to stay in human form constantly as practice, which is [[SarcasmMode lucky for the one actual human there,]] as there is a rule that states any human who comes across Youkai Academy will be executed. Of course, [[spoiler: he manages to escape this fate when one of his harem injects him with vampire blood to temporarily change him into a vampire and trick the rest of the school. Later on, a more permanent transformation occurred and this trope no longer applied]].
* The American Manga ''Pantheon High'' focuses on a school for demigods/goddesses.

* Somewhat similar to the X-Men example below, ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has Academy City. It has hundreds, if not thousands of schools. 80% of the population are students, over 60% of which are [[PsychicPowers espers]]. Teaching them how to use their abilities to their fullest potential is ''part of the local curriculum''. No one finds it unusual; in fact, the whole world knows about it and don't particularly care.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The Spiritual Arts Academy (nicknamed in-universe and in the fandom as the Shinigami Academy) trains people who possess [[SoulPower spiritual power]] to become {{shinigami}}. It teaches four Shinigami Arts ([[ImplausibleFencingPowers Zanjutsu]], [[SupernaturalMartialArts Hakuda]], [[FlashStep Hohou]] and [[FunctionalMagic Kidou]]) to prepare students for one of three organisations, the [[{{Samurai}} Gotei 13]], the [[KungFuWizard Kidou Corps]] or the [[{{Ninja}} Stealth Force]]. The emphasis on meritocracy was lampshaded in universe when it was observed that only those with the best grades make it into these organisations, but that the best students often find themselves only "average" once into the organisation itself. Given the needs of the three organisations, the bizarre curriculum and unique threats the students are trained to handle, the Academy functions as a SuperheroSchool, MilitaryAcademy, WizardingSchool, NinjaSchool and SpySchool all rolled into one. Students certainly don't find the education boring, and may not even make it out the other side alive!
* ''Anime/IlSolePenetraLeIllusioni'': Sephiro Fiore maintains the girls' education under the guise of a fortune-telling school while sending them out to fight monsters.
* ''Manga/TokyoESP'' has these set up in the wake of the MassSuperEmpoweringEvent unleashed by the ArcVillain.

* In Marvel's ComicBook/TheNewUniverse, ''ComicBook/DP7'' introduced a clinic for people developing paranormal powers as a result of [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent the White Event]].
** To a lesser extent, the Ballad Institute from ''Nightmask'' also qualified.
* ''ComicBook/TopTen'' is a PoliceProcedural set in a city where everybody, from the mayor down to the lowliest street bum, is a SuperHero; the city was founded expressly to get all the weirdness out of the rest of the world.

* ''ComicBook/PS238'':
** The story is set in a secret grade school for the children of superheroes. Most of which also have superpowers and are training to be superheroes, except for the main character....

* ''ComicBook/TheIntimates'', a fairly obscure comic from Creator/{{Wildstorm}}, has The Seminary, a school for teenage [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual SPB]]s.
* [[ComicBook/AtomicRobo Tesladyne Industries]] is a workplace that specializes in Action Science, including such fields as Imaginary Physics and Advanced [Other] (it's so revolutionary it doesn't have a name yet). Giant bugs and extra-universal incursions are the order of the day. Vampire attacks are treated with as much concern (but much less surprise) than a fire in a normal office compound, and the receptionist keeps a shotgun and helmet under his desk just in case.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] & ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': In the Golden Age the Amazons hosted a school open to young girls from around the world where the students would learn about the advances Amazons had made in the sciences, {{magitek}}, respect, and [[SupernaturalMartialArts Amazonian self defense]]. It was more of a couple of courses than a full school so their stay on Paradise Island wasn't very long, and the students tended to be kids who'd attracted Di's attention through doing things like chucking their softball coach across the field so the students were often not exacly normal.

* The Library from TNT's ''Film/TheLibrarian'' series of movies. Especially played up in the beginning of the third movie, when Flynn is completely bored with his job -- which involves such duties as dueling with Excalibur.
* ''Film/RealGenius''' "[[{{Expy}} Pacific Tech]]".
* The Soviet film ''Sorcerers'' is loosely based on the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers novel ''Literature/MondayBeginsOnSaturday'' (see below). Ivan Puhov's fiancée Alyona (unbeknownst to him) works as a witch at the Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services, a subsidiary of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry from the novel. Thanks to a rival at the institute, Alyona is cursed by the jealous director of the institute (who thinks that her boyfriend is cheating on her with the young witch) to be a cold-blooded bitch, who doesn't care about anyone. It's up to Ivan and a pair of magic wood masters from the institute to lift the curse.
* The Jedi Temple from ''Franchise/StarWars'', the building where the Jedi Order is based on Coruscant and where Jedi apprentices train as children. Among other things, some of the Force powers they learn include precognition, telekinesis and mind-reading.
* The unnamed institution in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. Their job is to [[spoiler: house hundreds of unspeakable monsters, and use them to kill groups of young people in annual ritualistic sacrifices to ancient gods who, if not appeased, will come back and bring forth the apocalypse]]. They also have office pools.

* Creator/RickRiordan LOVES this trope, especially in works that form part of his shared universe of mythologies
** ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has Camp Half-Blood, a camp for Greek Demigods
** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' has Camp Jupiter, which is basically just [[RecycledInSpace a Roman version of Camp Half-Blood]]
** ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' has Institutes for the Egyptian Magicians
** ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'' has ''Main/Valhalla''
* Miskatonic University from various Creator/HPLovecraft Stories. The only institute of higher learning in America that gives a degree in Eldritch Horrors.

* The eponymous hospital in James White's ''Literature/SectorGeneral'' series, a 384-story structure in outer space that houses such things as humans, giant furry caterpillars, six-legged elephant-things with their symbionts, 60-foot eels, telepathic gestalt intelligences, shapeshifters, superheated and cryonic beings and ones that metabolize hard radiation -- to say nothing of the patients -- all working together to make it a smashing hospital, though apparently finding suitable seating in the oxygen-nitrogen dining halls is a pain.
* The 1964 Creator/StrugatskyBrothers novel ''Literature/MondayBeginsOnSaturday'' is about a young Soviet programmer shanghaied into working at the "Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry," an organization that combined a magical and often logic-defying setting with an insane and equally logic-defying Soviet bureaucracy, which the work hilariously [[RefugeInAudacity mocked]]. The sequel, ''Literature/TaleOfTheTroika'', takes place in a poorly organized SecretGovernmentWarehouse.
* The Talamasca from the books of Creator/AnneRice is not full of paranormal activity as such, but full of people who study it.
** Some Talamascans do possess paranormal abilities, the most notable of which being Jesse Reeves, descended from a (very) long line of witches dating back to Ancient Egypt. Her abilities are, pretty much, limited to seeing ghosts and weird dreams.
* The Jokertown Clinic in ''Literature/WildCards'' is a low-budget hospital for those mutated by the Wild Card virus, as well as the workplace and research center for the only (generally known) extraterrestrial living on Earth.
* ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'', eponymous academy from the awesome books, is a school where vampyres learn how to behave in society. It also helps students deal with the Change- in this particular mythology, vampyres are not made by biting but as the result of a biochemical change, which, once it has started, either leads to becoming a full-fledged vampyre or dying.

* A non-supernatural version in ''The Melting Season''. The performing arts school where the main character Giselle goes used to be a hospital during World War I(or the Civil War) and is filled with crazy people.
* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': The Cursor's academy fits this description. It is a school for teenaged youths in a world where everyone has magic abilities, so between math and history class there are classes on magical theory and actual training to use magic. However, it also happens to be the school for training the empire's messengers and spies, so some classes have final exams like "figure out that your mentor is a traitor to the Crown in time" or "catch a certain thief who has eluded all detection so far".

* While not being a school in the proper sense, the Wizard Tower in ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' is the hub of the Castle and of its '''Magyk''' system.

* In ''Literature/DragonSlayersAcademy'', the school for which the series is named.

* The Institutes, and by extension the (Con)clave in ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''.
* Literature/NowhereIslandUniversity is a mix of a bunch of sub-types, due to its separate schools. Some, like the [[MilitarySchool Academy of Military Science]] and [[SpySchool Shadowhaven]] specialize in turning out Elite Mooks. However, most of the other schools focus on a specific area of technology (medicine, computers, engineering, etc.) and have taken the university years ahead of the rest of the world technologically.
* ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'' has the simply-called "school", which is part-education facility, part-psychiatric hospital, part-safe haven for half-bloods which had been mistreated by Rafael. The students include a slew of half-angels, half-fire demons, part-werewolves, people with blood of all three systems and more.

* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', the Torchwood hub has a pet pterodactyl, which is probably one of the more mundane fixtures.

* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' is about a clinic that helps 'abnormals' (mutant humans and cryptids with strange abilities). One of their employees is a Sasquatch, yet he is treated as if he was simply a misunderstood human being.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" shows that the government has one of this institutes for Invisible Kids.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' featured two:
** Primatech (called the Company before we learned more about it) seemed like a typical "government agency rounding up the superhumans" thing until we learned that superhumans were actually in charge of it; specifically a group of evolved humans who preferred to keep the existence of their kind secret, but helped those they rounded up get a hold on their powers.
** Sullivan Bros. Carnival was a safe haven for evolved humans, who could simply pretend their skills were carnival acts. It was much less morally ambiguous than Primatech, at least until the guy in charge was murdered by his brother Samuel, who subsequently took over.

* St. Jerome's in ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' is one of the world's most exclusive daycares. This is because it caters to Offspring -- the HalfHumanHybrid children of the Unchained -- in all their various forms. "Ordinary" Offspring have one or more low-level RealityWarper traits. Fractals, having a more potent concentration of demon in their bio-quantum signature, are even more powerful than Offspring and can see through demonic Cover. Thusly, you have a daycare full of children who can do things like make you an {{Unperson}} or pull things out of {{Hammerspace}}.
** For extra weirdness, St. Jerome's may also potentially house Nephilim, the most powerful kind of half-demon, who have demonic forms and enough power to go toe-to-toe with ''angels''.

* Whispering Rock Summer Camp in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.

* The [[OtomeGame otome]] VisualNovel ''[[VisualNovel/{{Planets}} (P)lanets]]'' has a designated high school called the [[FunWithAcronyms Psychokinesis Learning Academy for New and Exciting Tactical Studies]] for teenagers with PsychicPowers.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Sabrina runs a training school for humans with psychic powers in addition to her Gym Leader duties.

* Saint Pigeonations, the school where ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' takes place, turns out to have elements of this. All right, in-universe the fact that all the faculty and the entire student body save one TokenHuman is composed of [[UpliftedAnimal sentient birds]] is completely standard - well, having a human is weird - and it's simply seen as a prestigious high school for gifted birds. ''Bad Boys Love'' reveals that much of the student body was specially invited because they have varied unusual skills and abilities, some of which are cultivated. [[spoiler: But they are not ''taught'' these things. The doctor medicates or operates them into fruition for his own sinister purposes, and sometimes kills the students on the way.]] Most of them have no idea.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'''s Byrgenwerth College. The madness started when its Provost, Master Willem, decided to investigate the ancient Pthumerian ruins under Yharnam. They found two key components to the Pthumerians' mastery of magic - Old Blood and Insight. Byrgenwerth under Willem focused on Insight research, while his apprentice Laurence left to found the Healing Church to focus on the [[LovecraftianSuperpower "healing" properties]] of Old Blood. This worked terribly for all involved.
* In VideoGame/TheCouncilOfHanwell, the small titular town can somehow afford a huge science facility to research the anomalies.

* The Repository of Dangerous Things from [[http://www.dangerousthings.net/ the webcomic of the same name]].
* In ''WebComic/SkinHorse'', the eponymous tight-budget American nonhuman sapient protection project shares the Annex One building with the Clerk of the Clerk of Clerks, the Department of Jetpack Suppression, the Department of Precambrian Defense, the Feline Trauma Project, the Department of Irradiation, etc.

* ''Webcomic/NowhereUniversity'' has main characters that include a magical girl, a witch, a Jedi, etc., & the teachers come from literary classics. It's sister schools, Somewhere University, Anywhere University & Everywhere University probably qualify as well.
* ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'' has Magellan Justice Academy on Magellan Island.

* A piece of side art in ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany'', shows a flashback to Walter in Elementary school. The desks float. The students are all [[WingedHumanoid bird people]] and the professor appears to be teaching wormholes while using a HolographicTerminal and wearing a battle helm. Guess who becomes the MagiTek engineer.

* In ''Webcomic/TheGlassScientists'', the Society for Arcane Sciences dedicates itself to protection and promotion of Mad... [[InsistentTerminology sorry]], ''Rogue'' Science.
* A more [[MundaneMadeAwesome mundane]] appears in ''Webcomic/{{Lookism}}'' with [[RuleOfSeven 7 departments.]] TheProtagonist Park Hyung Suk is a part of the Fashion department. Each of the departments have their own martial artists, for some reason. So it's more serious than MartialArtsAndCrafts, as one of the characters ''is'' a BoxingBattler, and there's references to many different real martial arts. Yet the school focus is more based around the students' creativity despite most of them being martial '''artists'''.
* In ''Webcomic/AliceAndTheNightmare'', the Phantasmagoria University is Wonderland's most prestigious school. It trains {{Dream Walker}}s and {{Dream Weaver}}s, has giant virtual reality domes and war vets as professors.
* While not as extreme as some of the other examples, Sokolov Academy from Webcomic/BadMoonRising was a school specifically meant for young werewolves and children who had the potential to become werewolves. Given the FantasyKitchenSink nature of the universe, that meant that the students and staff also included a girl who was more reptile than wolf, a smattering of the magically inclined, more than a few ghosts, and at least two living people who could speak to the dead.

* Arachne Tellwyrn's University in Literature/TheGodsAreBastards sits squarely atop this trope, as well as its mountain. Having a Professor who can cause ''Demons'' to back off merely by introducing herself is just a bonus.

* [[http://windy999.deviantart.com/art/Pirate-Timetable-47108725 "The Bottle of Ruin"]] Academy for Young {{Pirate}}s.
* The forum-based RPG Roleplay/{{Shadowside}} not only covers the basis of this, but almost all of the subtropes are at least partially true of it.
* Hyakuji High School, the eponymous high school from Roleplay/ShinHyakujiHighSchool forum-based RPG covers a variety of subtropes related to this concept.
* Roleplay/SigilAcademy is another forum-based RPG that's one of these, also covering a variety of subtropes but mostly SuperheroSchool.
* ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'''s Silas University. Alchemy club, the Homecoming Goat Sacrifice, the Eldritch Library, the main character's new roommate is a vampire, and then there is [[spoiler: the EldritchAbomination that is beneath the school and demands a sacrifice of five girls every twenty years]].
* A downplayed example in ''WebVideo/FrankensteinMD'''s Engle State University, whose medical school produced [[GenderFlip Victoria]] [[MadScientist Frankenstein]], and thus, FrankensteinsMonster. (In fact, Engle State gets its name from Ingolstadt, Germany, the town where book Victor attends university.)

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' has Acme Looniversity, where young cartoon characters learn about comedy from the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cast themselves. (Just as an example of the wackiness in store for prospective students, there's an entire class devoted to ''Exploding Cakes''.)

* ''WesternAnimation/CreepSchool'' has a somewhat child-friendly version filled with ghosts, magical beings, (mostly) friendly monsters and an anthropomorphic chameleon.

* the eponymus ''WesternAnimation/RegalAcademy''

* Hollins University, which is an all women's university in Roanoke, Virginia, may qualify. The school has secret organizations, such as Freya (members wear black, hooded robes, remain anonymous in their lifetime, and pass out cookies during finals), as well as traditions such as Ring Night that require junior class volunteers to do silly stunts. Other traditions include things like Tinker Scares, in which the senior class runs through dormitories banging pots and pans yelling that Tinker Day has come. The seniors will perform several of these before Tinker Day actually arrives--during which time classes are canceled, and students and faculty dress up in strange costumes and climb Tinker Mount in Roanoke. It's worth noting that that last tradition dates back to when the university was a seminary institute in the late nineteen century.

* A downplayed example in ''WebVideo/FrankensteinMD'''s Engle State University, whose medical school produced [[GenderFlip Victoria]] [[MadScientist Frankenstein]], and thus, FrankensteinsMonster. (In fact, Engle State gets its name from Ingolstadt, Germany, the town where book!Victor attends university.)

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': In the Golden Age the Amazons hosted a school open to young girls from around the world where the students would learn about the advances Amazons had made in the sciences, {{magitek}}, respect, and [[SupernaturalMartialArts Amazonian self defense]]. It was more of a couple of courses than a full school so their stay on Paradise Island wasn't very long, and the students tended to be kids who'd attracted Di's attention through doing things like chucking their softball coach across the field so the students were often not exacly normal.