History Main / GraduateFromTheStory

* The final episode of ''Series/{{Kindergarten}}'' is "Movin' Up". The kids graduate from kindergarten and spend their last day as a class together.

* This is the reason why ''Anime/PrettyCure'' invokes ComicBookTime: ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' had Komachi and Karen on the verge of graduating and since ''Yes'' got [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo a sequel]] and they wanted to keep the same cast.

* Both ''Film/{{Fame}}'' and its remake end with a final performance by the graduating students of P.A.

* The Creator/ChristopherPike ''Final Friends'' mini-series ends with high school graduation.

* The final ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'', ''Babysitters Club: Friends Forever - Graduation Day'', ends with the main girls finally graduating Stoneybrook Middle School [[NotAllowedToGrowUp after over fifteen years and 200 books]].

* The various ''[[FollowTheLeader Saved By The Bell]] [[RecycledInSpace Meets [X] ]]'' shows played with this trope - ''Series/HangTime'' and ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'' subverted this due to RevolvingDoorCasting meaning several characters were written out with this an excuse, ''Series/CityGuys'' on the other hand played it straight.
** Averted with ''[[Series/SavedByTheBellTheCollegeYears The College Years]]'', as the show was cancelled after a season. Conversely, ''The New Class'' took the trope to its logical extreme by having Mr. Belding retire as the students graduated.

* ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'' ended (save for a finale ClipShow) with the main characters graduating high school. While it seemed like this would break up the gang, Merton decided to switch schools and room with Tommy, and Lori wasn't far away.

* ''Series/EvenStevens'' ended with TheMovie, in which Ren graduated middle school and went on to high school, but due to {{Dawson casting}} (exacerbated by ComicBookTime) it felt like a high school graduation.
* ''Series/TheFreshBeatBand'' ends with the titular quartet finishing music school. They're old enough to have been in college, but in light of a preschool audience, what we actually see is nothing like it.
* The [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Suite Life]] series ended this way too.
* ''Series/BlackHoleHigh'''s series finale takes place right before and through graduation.
* Happens often in ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}''. This serves [[RevolvingDoorCasting not only to let other characters leave but also to let in new characters]] (freshmen). Many of the original characters graduated in seasons 6 and 7.
* An odd case concerning ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. In ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', Billy ends up graduating early from high school due to his incredibly high grades. He later leaves the show. The rest of the team graduate fully in the first episode of ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', but don't officially move on from the show until halfway through.
* Happens at the end of ''Series/{{Glee}}'''s third season. Technically eight members graduated from Lima at the end of season 3. However, Rachel, Kurt, and Santana receive a decent chunk of screen time due to the New York narrative, and Finn spent a majority of season 4 hanging around Lima.
** Season 5 mostly inverts it. [[spoiler:Of those who graduated, only Tina left the show, as afterwards the show took place entirely in New York.]]
* Averted in ''Series/KamenRiderFourze''. Halfway through, Shun and Miu end up graduating, which it makes the Kamen Rider Club worry, since they're part of the club and they're kinda needed. However, it turns out the college they're to attend is right near the high school, so there's no worries of the team being separated.
* Played with in ''Series/{{Community}}''. Season 4 ends with Jeff and Pierce graduating from Greendale. Season 5 begins with Jeff returning to Greendale as a teacher, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot but Pierce never]] [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies physically returns]].
* Happened in the Season 4 finale of ''Series/OneTreeHill''. The show was {{re tool}}ed starting Season 5 with the main characters as adults following a four and a half year TimeSkip.
* The final episode of ''Series/{{Kindergarten}}'' is "Movin' Up". The kids graduate from kindergarten and spend their last day as a class together.
* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': Season 4 had the characters going off to college, then the show was {{retool}}ed with a time skip in Season 5 that had them all as post-college adults.
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'':
** Having been a major character throughout Seasons 1 to 4, Season 4 had Susan's daughter Julie go off to Princeton and only appear in one episode of Season 5, which was set five years later. She drops out of med school before Season 6 and comes back on a more permanent basis for that season, before graduating from the story again at the end of Season 6 by going back to med school. She's then absent for all of Season 7 except one episode, and comes back late in Season 8 having finished school to help Susan after [[spoiler:Mike's death.]]
** Danielle graduates more permanently; she leaves the story to go to [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Columbia]] at the end of Season 4 and then only appears in two episodes of Season 5, to show her taking Benjamin back from Bree, and then not at all until one episode of Season 8.

* Another video game example, but with a twist: When you graduate from the Guild in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'', it starts the post-game story.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' features this in both the good and bad ending, even though the hero and the majority of the team are not graduating that year.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' did it first with its ending. It even gives a nice little WhereAreTheyNow on the party members noting that the Protagonist's future is for us to decide. (Though ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}} Eternal Punishment'' tells part of it was ButNowIMustGo.)

* ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'': A subversion with Flay, who had to repeat a year because he basically never took any of his exams. Having several fairly decent skills, most players were thankful for his willingness to stick around for another year.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. The GrandFinale is even named "Graduation".

* Happens often in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''. This serves [[RevolvingDoorCasting not only to let other characters leave but also to let in new characters]] (freshmen). Many of the original characters graduated in seasons 6 and 7.