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* ''{{Mx0}}'': After failing to sneak ''into'' (unknown to him) a secret WizardingSchool, Taiga gets dragged though the school's barrier by a teacher mistaking him for a student trying to sneak ''out''. A sequence of unlikely events establishes him as a genius mage when he actually has no power at all--a reputation he is forced to uphold thereafter.
* ''RosarioToVampire'': Tsukune accidentally gets accepted to AllGhoulsSchool in AnotherDimension and faces the death penalty for spying if discovered. [[spoiler:Turns out the BigBad of the second major arc is himself a [[EmpoweredBadassNormal former human]] who ended up at Youkai Academy under the same circumstances. And in both cases, their acceptance to the school wasn't an accident at all.]]
* ''AnimalAcademy'' / ''HakobuneHakusho'': A BookDumb girl is mistakenly accepted to a school for animal shapeshifters and begs her way in (still not knowing what the school was) when the head faculty see that she's human because no other school will take her. The other students believe she's a cat, because her given name is--quite conveniently (and probably why she was first accepted)--''[[SpeciesSurname Neko]]''.

* ''HollowFields'': Lucy Snow is a fairly ordinary child in a school for the children of [[MadScientist mad scientists]].
* ''AfterschoolCharisma'': Shiro's the only non-clone in a school for clones. [[spoiler:Or Is He?]]
* ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': Nami Hitou, the normal girl in a DysfunctionJunction class.

* ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is a non-supernatural example: Haruhi is a working-class girl at a school for the [[ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount comically rich]].

* Tyler Marlocke of ''{{PS238}}'' - normal, unpowered child in a school for superkids. He doesn't pretend to be anything else, but between the fact that both his parents are legendary superheroes and the school being a constant WeirdnessMagnet, he has no choice but to become an ActionSurvivor in order to, well, survive. Currently in training to become BadassNormal.

* ''OverTheGardenWall'' has an episode where Wirt, Gregory, and Beatrice run into a schoolhouse of well-dressed animals.

* Similarly, ''GravedaleHigh'' featured RickMoranis as the only human ''teacher'' at an AllGhoulsSchool.

* The entire plot of ''VampireHigh'' is that Cody, as a newcomer to a small town in Massachusetts, is one of the few people unaware that there are vampires living there as well. As a result, he has no idea that the high school he attends is primarily intended for vampires (there are a few humans, but all are there through necessity and not choice).

* In ''ComicBook/AllGhoulsSchool'', Becca Norman is suspended for cheating at her old school. Her only chance to pass is to attend summer school at the Darkmoor Academy boarding school. What she does not know is that darkmoor is an AllGhoulsScholl and her attendence there has been carefully orchestrated.

* {{Anime/Pokemon}} : Jessie apparently attended one of these prior to joining Team Rocket - she wanted to become a Pokémon nurse, but somehow wound up at a school training Chanseys as medical assistants.

* FanFic/TheMysteriousSchool, as its name suggests, is all about four students who get accepted into a school... [[ExtranormalInstitute for people with magic.]]

* The entire plot of ''Vampire High'' is that Cody, as a newcomer to a small town in Massachusetts, is one of the few people unaware that there are vampires living there as well. As a result, he has no idea that the high school he attends is primarily intended for vampires (there are a few humans, but all are there through necessity and not choice).
* Inverted in ''H.O.W.L. High'' - the protagonist is a half-warlock who attends a high school dedicated to Hollywood horror effects. Also played with in that the "normals" attending the school with him are weird enough to shake a guy with ''actual'' monsters in his family.

* Tyler Marlocke of ''PS238'' - normal, unpowered child in a school for superkids. He doesn't pretend to be anything else, but between the fact that both his parents are legendary superheroes and the school being a constant WeirdnessMagnet, he has no choice but to become an ActionSurvivor in order to, well, survive. Currently in training to become BadassNormal.

* ''RosarioToVampire'': Tsukune accidentally gets accepted to AllGhoulsSchool in AnotherDimension and faces the death penalty for spying if discovered.

* Inverted in H.O.W.L. High - the protagonist is a half-warlock who attends a high school dedicated to Hollywood horror effects. Also played with in that the "normals" attending the school with him are weird enough to shake a guy with ''actual'' monsters in his family.

* The heroine of ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' is a human teenager attending a prestigious private high school for birds. Going by the official manga, it's also a ''boys' school''.

* ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is a non-supernatural example: Haruhi is a middle-class girl at a school for the [[ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount comically rich]].

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* Inverted in ''KyleXY'', when the very abnormal Kyle ends up attending the very normal Beachwood High School.

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* Inverted in ''Manhua/SchoolShock'' (and for that matter, ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'') where a ChildSoldier gets sent to school for a observation and protection mission. HilarityEnsues.

* The protagonist of ''SkyHigh'' is a regular boy who gets sent to a [[SuperheroSchool Superhero school]] despite having no powers.

* ""[[{{Detentionaire}}]]'' fan fic FanFic/StrangerInAStrangeSchool uses this exact trope as a title but for the most part it has to do with the main character, an OC, being a new student at A. Nigma.

* ""[[{{Detentionaire}}]]'' fan fic FanFic/StrangerinaStrangeSchool uses this exact trope as a title but for the most part it has to do with the main character, an OC, being a new student at A. Nigma.

* ""[[{{Detentionaire}}]]'' fan fic 'Stranger in a Strange School' uses this exact trope as a title but for the most part it has to do with the main character, an OC, being a new student at A. Nigma.

Acts as a NaiveNewcomer. [[LevelGrinding After sufficient experience]], they may [[TookALevelInBadass upgrade]] to [[BadassAbnormal something]] that ''does'' fit in.

* FanFic/TheMysteriousSchool, as its name suggests, is all about four students who get accepted into a school [[ExtranormalInstitute for people with magic]].

* Inverted in ''Manhua/SchoolShock'' (and for that matter, ''FullMetalPanic'') where a ChildSoldier gets sent to school for a observation and protection mission. HilarityEnsues.

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* Inverted in ''SchoolShock'' (and for that matter, ''FullMetalPanic'') where a ChildSoldier gets sent to school for a observation and protection mission. HilarityEnsues.