History Main / ElevatorSchool

* Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters/Xavier Academy, in the comic book, cartoon and theatrical versions of the ''Comicbook/XMen''. Xavier's "elevator" goes one step higher, since most of the instructors are former students who seamlessly moved into their new roles. Remember that this role is teacher-slash-superhero. Well, in most cases, anyway; it's hard to imagine Wolverine teaching anything but gym. And you do not want him teaching you gym.

* ''Franchise/TheIdolmaster'' installment ''Gakuen [=iDOLM@STER=] takes place at Maraboshi High School, a prestigious idol academy that nurtures talent and other industry jobs from middle school to college.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' the 3 Belcher children, who range in age from 9-13, all attend a school called Wagstaff Junior High. This allows all of them to interact with Elementary and young teen peers.

** Rei Hino/Sailor Mars attends T.A. Girls' School, an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls]] Catholic school run by nuns, which at the very least has a middle school and high school division; the school is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_Eiwa_Jogakuin Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin]], a real all-girls academy in Tokyo which has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_Eiwa_University university]] attached to it. When Minako says that Rei's lucky for not having to take high school entrance exams, Rei corrects her: it doesn't mean she has it easy since they still have to take regular tests at T.A., and the nuns could easily not let a student pass to the next year if they don't like her.

** Mugen Gakuen (Infinity Academy) goes from preschool to graduate school, but acts as a cover for the villans of the 3rd arc. It's rarely seen acting as an actual school (though it is one) and is destroyed in the arc's climax.

** Rei Hino/Sailor Mars attends T.A. Girls' School, an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls]] Catholic school run by nuns; T.A. is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_Eiwa_Jogakuin Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin]], a real all-girls academy in Tokyo which has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_Eiwa_University university]] attached to it. When Minako says that Rei's lucky for not having to take high school entrance exams, Rei corrects her: it doesn't mean she has it easy since they still have to take regular tests at T.A., and the nuns could easily not let a student pass to the next year if they don't like her.

* Shuchi'in Academy in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' runs all the way from elementary school to university, though there is apparently some form of entrance exam going between the different levels, since [[spoiler:Kyoko had to transfer to another school when she failed]]. Given that most of the students tend to be the children of rather influential people (politicians, [=CEOs=], etc), there is a division between the "pures" (those that went up through the elevator system) and the "impures" (those that started attending later on). For a note, the Shuchi'in is a stand-in for Gakushūin mentioned in the Real Life section.

* ''Literature/ModernVillainess'': Part of the story follows TheProtagonist Runa Keikain's school life at Gakushūkan (a stand-in for the Gakushūin mentioned elsewhere on this page) from kindergarten to high school.

** Also in Japan, where many private universities have high schools, junior highs, and even primary schools and kindergartens in adjacent campuses. The most famous of these is Gakushūin, which has educated the Imperial Family for decades.

* In ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'', [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia U.A.]] becomes this a year before the story starts due to [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Rias Gremory]] attending it and thus needing all of her peerage, some who are not of high school age at the time they are reincarnated into devils, to be near her.

* Ohtori Academy in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' teaches kindergarten through at least high school.
* The CLAMP School, the main setting of ''Manga/{{CLAMP School Detectives}}'' and making a cameo in ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', includes all grades from kindergarten through college.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Mugen Gakuen (Infinity Academy) is one, going from preschool to graduate school, but acts as a cover for the villans of the 3rd arc. It's rarely seen acting as an actual school (though it is one) and is destroyed in the arc's climax.
** Rei Hino/Sailor Mars attends T.A. Girls' School, an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls]] Catholic school run by nuns; T.A. is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_Eiwa_Jogakuin Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin]], a real all-girls academy in Tokyo which has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_Eiwa_University university]] attached to it. When Minako says that Rei's lucky for not having to take high school entrance exams, Rei corrects her: it doesn't mean she has it easy since they still have to take regular tests at T.A., and the nuns could easily not let a student pass to the next year if they don't like her.
* Mahora Academy in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is an elevator school (starting from kindergarten), though it mainly focuses on the middle school division since Negi teaches a middle school class. Despite being an elevator school, a condition of Negi's continuing employment (and thus receiving his magic license) is that he must get the class exam averages up -- specifically those of the five worst students, the self-proclaimed "Baka Rangers" (Asuna, Yue, Kaede, Makie and Kuu Fei).
* Ouran Academy in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', which despite the series' title isn't just a high school; it's a huge institution for rich students that contains grades from kindergarten to high school. The kindergarten, elementary school, middle school and high school divisions each have their own uniforms to distinguish them.
* Saki Girls School in ''Manga/GirlsHigh''.
* Maijima Private Academy from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' from kindergarten to university.
* Eriol Academy from ''Manga/AngelicLayer''.
* The Sakuragaoka Academy in ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'' seems to have at least an elementary branch and a middle school branch.
* The titular setting from from ''Manga/GakuenAlice'' has elementary, middle and high school education. In this case, it has to be an escalator school because it serves as a WizardingSchool for students whose powers might not be discovered until they're teenagers, or might get noticed as toddlers.

* Supposedly Hakuou of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' is one, but since all the characters are in high school, you can't really tell.
* Sakashitamon Academy in ''Manga/AiKora''.
* Oujou in ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'', but played with using the Poseidon's school, a building so tall and with such tall people that most of the students go on to become elevator workers.
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' has got a variation: The school is a small country school, with just one class but still having children of varying ages.
* The school attended by the cast of ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'' is specifically mentioned to be an ElevatorSchool in the first episode. Its an extreme example, with classes from Kindergarten straight through high school graduation, and some community college classes.
* ''Manga/SlamDunk'': Kainan (the school attended by Maki, Kiyota and their classmates) is an escalator school, as it's always introduced as Kainan University Affiliated High School.

* The prestigious San Marx Private Arts Academy from ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' is one, right the way up from kindergarten.
* The school from ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' counts, but the fail condition is made very clear - the students will not be allowed to continue attendance if they're part of Class E by the end of the year, with being part of the class having [[MarkOfShame a certain]] [[TheExile social stigma]] (Nagisa's friends completely abandon him when he's moved to class E). That, plus the fact that it's in the old school building, is one of the reasons everyone is given a contract on their superhuman sensei.
* Some of the schools in ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' go from at least junior high to highschool. Hyoutei and Rikkaidai are explicitely mentioned to go at least from elementary to university.
* In ''Manga/PrivateActress'', Shiho inflitrates one of the most famous elevator schools in Tokyo (one that goes from kindergarten to university) to investigate the very shady death of a girl from the middle-school section.

* ''[[Fanfic/TheMysteriousSchool The Mysterious School]]'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name says,]] has the Artemis Kuroshi School. The twist is that there are no exams needed to get in: accept the invitation and you immediately are let in.
* ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'' seems to have a variant in that said school, at the beginning of the comic, that Satsuki, Nui, Ryuuko, and Mako went to also doubled as a day care center, as then five year old Satsuki attends kindergarten with a three and a couple of two year olds and the fact that, in comic 18, according to Nui, the class they attended was also attended by infants.
* In the ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2718711/1/In-A-Different-Light ''In a Different Light'']], there is a mention of an unnamed prestigious private elementary school with an affiliated college campus. Clair attended the elementary school...and [[{{Squick}} his father paid some college boys to gang-rape him]].

** It's called a Junior High (in Canada at least).
* The only explanation Max being in the same school as Justin and Alex since the ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' started.
** It's even more blatant after Max gets turned into a little girl (apparently in the fourth grade) and still goes to the same school.
** Although it may be a JustifiedTrope because of the fact that it's a private school.

* In the video game ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', each of the three Gardens is an ElevatorSchool (you can get in as early as 5 years old, and you get kicked out if you're not a [=SeeD=] by 20), in addition to being an ElaborateUniversityHigh (some towns have smaller populations than the Gardens).

* Gunjou Institute from ''VisualNovel/CrossChannel'' is this without the university.

** Most secondary schools in England and Wales go from Year ([[WeAllLiveInAmerica Grade]]) 7 to Year 11, sometimes with a college or sixth form taking students up to 18 years old included. A small number have primary and junior schools as part of the school. So in all you can have people ranging from 4 years old to 18 in the same school (but probably not in the same building.)

* ''LightNovel/ModernVillainess'': Part of the story follows TheProtagonist Runa Keikain's school life at Gakushūkan (a stand-in for the Gakushūin mentioned elsewhere on this page) from kindergarten to high school.

* ''LightNovel/ModernVillainessItsNotEasyBuildingACorporateEmpireBeforeTheCrash'': Part of the story follows TheProtagonist Runa Keikain's school life at Gakushūkan (a stand-in for the Gakushūin mentioned elsewhere on this page) from kindergarten to high school.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', the school aboard [[CoolAirship Castle Wulfenbach]]. It provides schooling and training for the future rulers of Europe and further afield (at least China, India and the Middle East), as well as the children of [[MadScientist Sparks]]. The oldest members of the school are in their early twenties, and sometimes act as [[ParentalSubstitute carers]] for the younger children, who seem to go down to the age of about five. The late leaving age is justified in that they're receiving instruction in how to rule in the future, and it's beneficial to everyone that the future world leaders are friends and allies from childhood.

* [[Film/{{Matilda}} Trunchem Hall]] becomes on in the climax because [[spoiler: with Trunchbull gone, no-one wanted to graduate.]]

** T.A. Girls' School is a Catholic school run by nuns, attended by Rei Hino (AKA Sailor Mars) and is again rarely seen. When Minako says that Rei's lucky for not having to take high school entrance exams, Rei corrects her: it doesn't mean she has it easy since they still have to take regular tests at T.A., and the nuns could easily not let a student pass to the next year if they don't like her.

** T.A. Girls' School is a Catholic school run by nuns, attended by Rei Hino (AKA Sailor Mars) and is again rarely seen. When Minako says that Rei's lucky for not having to do an exam to enter high school, Rei corrects her: it doesn't mean she has it easy as the nuns could easily not let a student pass to the next year if they don't like her.