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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', Phoebe seems to be this trope. Her catchphrase is "This never happened at my old school!" while several of the other kids seem much more accustomed to the strange things Ms. Frizzle does.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', Phoebe seems to be this trope. Her CatchPhrase is "This never happened at my old school!" while several of the other kids seem much more accustomed to the strange things Ms. Frizzle does.

* ''{{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 Chansey as medical assistants.

* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': Nami Hitou, the normal girl in a DysfunctionJunction class.
** Ironically, she develops a complex about it, making her NotSoAboveItAll.

* Inverted in ''Halloweentown High'' where Aggie lets the students from Halloweentown High attend a mortal high school.

* One Goosebumps book has this premise: a kid is accidentally sent first to a school for zombie kids, [[spoiler: and then, it's strongly implied, one for vampires]].

* The protagonist of ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' is a regular boy who gets sent to a SuperheroSchool despite having no powers since ''both'' his parents are renowned superheroes.

* ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'' is a borderline case, since the school is dedicated to rehabilitate youkai who have trouble integrating into human society, but at least some unwitting humans attend as well to provide an incentive to be more stealthy about their true natures.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheComicStrip Mini Monsters]]'' (aka ''Camp Mini-Mon'') had two normal kids accidentally be sent to a SummerCamp for MovieMonsters' ({{Dracula}}, FrankensteinsMonster, etc.) kids.

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

* Kazuki from "Literature/CerberusHigh" is a human who is unexpectedly moved to the titular boarding school for canid breeds, [[LittleBitBeastly people with canine features]]. With zero means of defending himself against the delinquent beasts that run rampant in the school, Kazuki accepts his sorry fate. However, the longer he stays at the school, Kazuki begins to realize that [[AmbiguouslyHuman he may not be as human as he previously thought]].

* ''Manga/{{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.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': 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.]]

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

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Midoriya is one of the only people in his generation born [[UnSorcerer without a Quirk]], but manages to achieve his dream of attending the elite SuperheroSchool (and later gets [[SuperEmpowering Super Empowered]] by [[WorldsStrongestMan All Might]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' is about Adam Lyon, a human boy accidentally sent to an animal school due to clerical error that misspelled his last name as "Lion." One episode actually has another character point out that there's nothing preventing him from [[JustEatGilligan easily transferring back to his old middle school]], since everyone is now aware of the obvious error. Adam's response is more-or-less that he's grown attached to his new classmates.
** An episode plays with this where his monkey best friend is sent to a ''plant'' school when his last name is written as "Spiderplant" rather than "Spidermonkey."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wayside}}'': In a TropesAreTools example of this trope, the original ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' book series was ''not'' this, as the students and staff always treated the fantastic elements of the school as mundane, so there was no chance of anyone of them being an AudienceSurrogate. The AnimatedAdaptation ''became'' this trope by rewriting Todd's character to be a transfer student fresh to the school, making him the FishOutOfWater.

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has a non-supernatural example, with the titular school being one for the [[ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount comically rich]]. Haruhi, who is ''already'' attending the school at the start of the story and has blended in so well that nobody's really noticed her yet, is from a working-class background and is there on scholarship.

** Blanc was the only canid breed when he attended his all-human private school.

* Kazuki from "Literature/CerberusHigh" is a human who is unexpectedly moved to the titular boarding school for canid breeds, [[LittleBitBeastly people with canine features]].

* ''Manga/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.]]

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

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* Alex feels this initially in ''Literature/NinthHouse''.