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* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa''. A group of students are invited by mysterious letter to attend Hope's Peak Academy. Once there, the invited group is forced to participate in a "death game" orchestrated by [[KillerTeddyBear an animatronic bear]]. In order to win, the designated murderer must get away with murdering another student. All the other participants are working to uncover the true murderer. Death is the punishment for failure. If the murderer escapes detection, they will be the lone survivor. If the group unmasks the murderer, they will be released and the murderer executed. Despite the rules indicating that there has been at least one survivor per group, word has not spread to shut the school down and warn people against accepting the invites.

* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'': The Xavier Institute. In case you thought "Hope you survive the experience" was hyperbole, the school has a pretty low survival rate. Special bonus points go to the class of ''ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX'', who began dying or being depowered en masse and [[AssPull randomly]], without finishing the ongoing and set up storylines. Most school alums have died or gone through something extremely traumatic in their days at school [[DeathIsCheap at least once]].

* Nerima's Furinkan High School in ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' is a place where Ranma Saotome is constantly challenged to fights, rivals try to kill him, and the student body has to endure the insanity of their [[TheCaligula Caligula-like]] principal, who has a love for placing death courses that they are forced to try to navigate with the reward of being exempt from his latest humiliating edict if they do.
* Honnouji Academy in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' runs on a brutal code of Darwinism enforced with murder, warfare and death courses that the student body must navigate in order to get to school or be expelled.

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* [[ComicBook/{{XMen}} The Xavier Institute]], full stop. In case you thought “Hope you survive the experience” was hyperbole, the school has a pretty low survival rate. Special bonus points go to the class of ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX, who began dying or being depowered en masse and [[AssPull randomly]], without finishing the ongoing and set up storylines. Most school alums have died or gone through something extremely traumatic in their days at school [[DeathIsCheap at least once]].
* The absurdly dangerous Jackson High in Gotham which [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] infiltrates during the highly {{Anvilicious}} Franchise/{{Batman}} story ''The Seduction of the Gun''. Evidently well over 95% of the students there carry guns, ''every'' student Tim talks to there has been shot, and even though the school ''has metal detectors at the doors'' they're only turned on for a brief period on Wednesday mornings. For some reason. Tim's there for about two days and witnesses two murders.

* While murder may be a bit of a stretch, the students of Francois Dupoint College in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' know that at anytime on any day someone could be turned into a super villain and several episodes feature one of the school's students becoming said villain.

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Contrast AcademyOfAdventure where every school day is full of thrills but no one ever dies. See also AxesInSchool.

Contrast AcademyOfAdventure where every school day is full of thrills but no one ever dies.

* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa''. A group of students are invited by mysterious letter to attend Hope's Peak Academy. Once there, the invited group is forced to participate in a "death game" orchestrated by [[MakesSenseInContext an animatronic bear]]. In order to win, the designated murderer must get away with murdering another student. All the other participants are working to uncover the true murderer. Death is the punishment for failure. If the murderer escapes detection, they will be the lone survivor. If the group unmasks the murderer, they will be released and the murderer executed. Despite the rules indicating that there has been at least one survivor per group, word has not spread to shut the school down and warn people against accepting the invites.

'''Marge:''' Listen, kids. You're eight and ten years old now. I can't fight all your battle for you.\\

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* While murder may be a bit of a stretch, the students of Francois Dupoint College in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' know that at anytime on any day someone could be turned into a super villain and several episodes feature one of the school's students becoming said villain.
** Moreso the staff and students know that the cause is emotional distress and a common factor in most of them is the local AlphaBitch but no one makes an organized anti-bullying effort.

* While murder may be a bit of a stretch, the students of Francois Dupoint College in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' know that at anytime on any day someone could be turned into a super villain and several episodes feature one of the school's students becoming said villain

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* [[ComicBook/{{XMen}} The Xavier Institute]], full stop. In case you thought “Hope you survive the experience” was hyperbole, the school has a pretty low survival rate. Special bonus points go to the class of ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX, who began dying or being depowered en masse and [[AssPull randomly]], without finishing the ongoing and set up storylines. Most school alums have died or gone through something extremely traumatic in their days at school [[DeathIsCheap at least once]].
* The absurdly dangerous Jackson High in Gotham which [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] infiltrates during the highly {{Anvilicious}} Franchise/{{Batman}} story ''The Seduction of the Gun''. Evidently well over 95% of the students there carry guns, ''every'' student Tim talks to there has been shot, and even though the school ''has metal detectors at the doors'' they're only turned on for a brief period on Wednesday mornings. For some reason. Tim's there for about two days and witnesses two murders.

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* In a slightly older version of the trope, ''Series/ScreamQueens'' features the ladies of Kappa Kappa Tau who are being systematically and grotesquely murdered by the serial killer, The Red Devil. While these deaths are concerning to the general student body and the police investigate, the weekly multiple murders aren't seen as sufficient reason to shutter the sorority (which has threatened litigation if day-to-day function is hampered in any way) or to suspend classes at the university for student safety. Nearly the entire sorority is murdered or accused of murder over the course of the first season, but it is treated like a bothersome in-house issue.

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* [[ComicBook/{{XMen}} The Xavier Institute]], full stop. In case you thought “Hope you survive the experience” was hyperbole, the school has a pretty low survival rate. Special bonus points go to the class of ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX, who began dying or being depowered en masse and [[AssPull randomly]], without finishing the ongoing and set up storylines. Most school alums have died or gone through something extremely traumatic in their days at school [[RevolvingDoorOfDeath at least once]].

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* In the 1976 ExploitationFilm ''Massacre at Central High'', the student body is tormented by a trio of [[JerkJock bullies]]. After new student David refuses to fall in line and intervenes in their AttemptedRape of two female students, they cripple him by kicking the jack from under the car he's working on, crushing his leg. This sends David on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in which he kills the bullies in increasingly sadistic and gruesome ways. His revenge, however, does not stop once the bullies are dead and he begins to murder fellow bullying victims. Despite the absurdly high number of students that die under suspicious circumstances, the school is never shut down. No adults are even seen on screen until the final scene where the [[PoliceAreUseless police show up to arrest the wrong suspects]] following David's KarmicDeath.

* In the 1976 [[ExploitationFilm movie "Massacre at Central High']], the student body is tormented by a trio of [[JerkJock bullies]]. After new student David refuses to fall in line and intervenes in their AttemptedRape of two female students, they cripple him by kicking the jack from under the car he's working on, crushing his leg. This sends David on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in which he kills the bullies in increasingly sadistic and gruesome ways. His revenge, however, does not stop once the bullies are dead and he begins to murder fellow bullying victims. Despite the absurdly high number of students that die under suspicious circumstances, the school is never shut down. No adults are even seen on screen until the final scene where the [[PoliceAreUseless police show up to arrest the wrong suspects]] following David's KarmicDeath.

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* In ''Series/Class2016'', Coal Hill Academy (which has a decades-long previous history in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' franchise) has an unusually high death rate. The school and its students and staff are routinely attacked because of it's WeirdnessMagnet status which attracts [[BigBad Big Bads]] from across space and time. The first episode, "For Tonight We Might Die", focused on the disappearance and death of Kevin Williams. Another student commented on his disappearance saying:

* During Clark's teenaged years at ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' High, one student a week would be revealed as a kryptofreak. They would usually kill one or two other students before Clark was able to figure out what was going on and stop them. In the first few episodes, the student body would be shown mourning the victims, but by season 2, dead classmates didn't even register as a blip on their collective radar.

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-->''Bart and Lisa:'' Mom! Mom! You've gotta help! They're cooking kids in the school cafeteria.
-->''Marge:'' Listen, kids. You're eight and ten years old now. I can't fight all your battle for you.
-->''Bart and Lisa:'' But Mom...
-->''Marge:'' No buts. You march right back to that school, look them straight in the eye and say "Please, don't eat me."

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