History Main / TwoTeacherSchool

* ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'', in Season 1, has only two teachers on screen at B&R, with Cathy teaching Gen Ed (English and Math) and Jade teaching Gender Studies. A few more teachers do show up in subsequent seasons, however: after Cathy has to leave following [[spoiler:the leaked nude photo scandal]], her class is taken up by Prof. Philip Hoff and, of all people, Isabella (who reveals early on that as a librarian, she is also a teacher, having studied English in college). Professors unrelated to the MC's classes often show up as well (such as Tybalt's dissertation mentor Dr. Schmidt), along with other B&R faculty such as Stephen. Few non-teaching staff are seen on screen, though; the closest we see is the tri-Betas and the MC working in the library for fraternity money.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' also suffers from this. In fact it gets progressively worse as the five seasons go on. There was one teacher, [[ChristmasCake Sakurada Haruna]] in the first season. By the fifth season even she had vanished. (Understandably since the girls were in a different school now... but really...)

** Turner was actually introduced in the second season, when the kids moved to high school; the first season took place in elementary school, where it ''[[JustifiedTrope would]]'' make sense for the kids to have only one teacher. Because Feeny (the principal of John Adams High) and Turner had a lot of scenes together, we ''did'' get to see other teachers sometimes, even though we never actually saw them ''teach''. During the third season, when Shawn moved in with Turner (giving Turner a bigger role in the show), a ''third'' teacher, Turner's best friend Eli Williams, was introduced. He only lasted one season, and then Turner [[BrotherChuck disappeared]] at the end of the fourth. In the fifth season and last year of high school, Feeny was their only teacher again.

* The ''Literature/{{Jennings}}'' books by Anthony Buckeridge, a series set in a boys' boarding school. Chapter 11 of ''Thanks to Jennings'' lists the school's five teachers. For two of them this is the only mention they get. Justified in that 'Jennings Goes to School' states that the school only has 78 pupils. Five teachers is a reasonable number for that many boys.

* In ''Anime/AnneHappy'' the only teachers seen are Kodaira and [[SternTeacher Saginomiya]], the later of which is only around for one episode of the anime. Then again, the only class we see of that school is class 1-7, and the only students of this class with [[FacelessMasses a face]], or [[NominalImportance a name]], are the five main characters.

* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' only ever shows two teachers: Mrs. Chevreuse, who simply exists so we can have a demonstration of [[StuffBlowingUp what happens when Louise tries to cast a spell]] and to [[MrExposition explain the basics of magic]], and [[BadassTeacher Mr. Colbert]], who actually has plot relevance. This isn't counting the [[DirtyOldMan principal, Old Osmond]].

* Yukari-sensei is pretty much the only teacher in ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret''.

* Maya and Chifuyu are the only teachers in ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos''.

* ''LightNovel/LadiesVersusButlers'' has the principal, Kaede Tenjouji and Mikan (no last name given) as the ''only'' faculty members that ever appear.

* The high school in ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' appears to have a dire lack of teachers for the number of students. There are a few nuns who apparently are staff members, but it is unclear whether they are also teachers.

* Although it is set in a very large private school, there are ''no'' visible teachers anywhere in ''Anime/MyHime'' aside from Midori (who is part of the core cast) and Sakomizu (who acts a supporting character and is almost never seen teaching). We do get to see the headmistress ([[spoiler: who is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, and by the end of the series she passes the title and responsibilities to her assistant]]), although the nurse happened to be a [[HotScientist cute lady]].

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* Obviously, there have been times and places where this was the rule rather than the exception. See {{Schoolmarm}}.
* It can often ''feel'' like this for college and grad students with a very specific major or one with a small department.
* In many countries, students spend their first years of school with one teacher singlehandedly teaching their class most of the basics (with some exceptions such as P.E.). In later years, the subjects get too complicated to teach by non-specialised teachers.
* Anyone who is or has ever been homeschooled (in a family with two parents as opposed to a single parent household) exemplifies this trope.
* A lot of Irish primary schools were literally this in the past, due to having small schoolhouses, particularly in rural areas. Still happens today, but is less and less common.
* Parochial schools based in smaller churches often only have four or five teachers, and in a few it's only two or three.
* Though rare, a new-founded faculty of a university can temporarily be this, having only the two or three professors that started the faculty and became directors. Though most universities don't officially start a faculty before having looked for teachers, it can and has happened that the search for professors took longer than the student applications, ending with the students being taught by two, maybe three people for at least one term.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has two teachers -- [[BoisterousBruiser Port]] and [[CaffeineBulletTime Oobleck]]. We also see Headmaster Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch, who seems to be in charge of combat classes. A Professor Peach is also mentioned.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': The high school there has only 2 teachers, one doubling as principal, and one class seems more fit for an elementary school. 2 other classrooms exist, but one is locked off, and the other has a bunch of toys/ an alternate dimension instead of students.

* ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' has one faculty member shown infrequently and takes the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil to the Nth degree.

* ''[[WebVideo/HeadlessASleepyHollowStory Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story'' has Ichabod Crane as the new middle school science teacher in Sleepy Hollow (a slight AdaptationalJobChange since he was the ''only'' teacher of a one-room school in [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow the original 1790-set short story]]), while Brom Bones is the Phys Ed. teacher (and the one who filled in for the missing science teacher the previous year, despite knowing nothing about science).

* ''WebVideo/HeadlessASleepyHollowStory'' casts Ichabod Crane as the new middle school science teacher in Sleepy Hollow (a slight AdaptationalJobChange since he was the ''only'' teacher of a one-room school in [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow the original 1790-set short story]]), while Brom Bones is the Phys Ed. teacher (and the one who filled in for the missing science teacher the previous year, despite knowing nothing about science). The only other teacher we hear about is Crane's predecessor.

** The prequel, ''A Very Potter Sequel'', replaces Quirrell with Umbridge (with Dumbledore and Snape still present), while ''A Very Potter Senior Year'' replaces Dumbledore with McGonagall and brings in Gilderoy Lockhart, with a passing reference to Mad-Eye Moody.

* The only professors out of the dozens in ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' that make it into ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' are Dumbledore, Quirrell and Snape. And all leave the school.

* ''Anime/LuckyStar'' only has Nanako Kuroi as the homeroom/history teacher of the main cast (except for Kagami) and the biology teacher (mostly in the manga). Other teachers do appear at times, though. The manga however, has the school nurse (we have an IllGirl in the cast, after all).

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' takes this trope and runs with it; with the exception of one episode, every class, field trip, and extracurricular activity we see is headed by Coach Barkin. It's implied that he's the regular teacher for at least a few of these classes, but more often he's portrayed as an emergency substitute.
** Lampshaded further in an episode where the students visit Mr Barkin's father at a Living History (early American History, where every character has an IdenticalGrandfather to be precise) community where he too implausibly performs every single job in town.
** Coach Barkin generally drops [[NoodleIncident some reason for the absence of the regular teacher]]; just enough to give us the idea that had they given us the full story, it would be hilarious, and a whole show could be built based solely on the things that incapacitate the teachers Barkin covers for.

* In ''Series/StrangersWithCandy'', Flatpoint High has [[SadistTeacher Mr. Noblet]], the history teacher, [[HippieTeacher Mr. Jellineck]], the art teacher and [[BaldBlackLeaderGuy Principal]] [[MeaningfulName Onyx]] [[ScaryBlackMan Blackman]]. The gym teacher is around sometimes, and other members of the faculty make cameos, but most of the time, those two seem to be the only ones around.

* The school in [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdfse the video for Charlotte Sometimes]] by Music/TheCure seems to be exactly like this -- which lead to a friend agreeing that even a school populated only by members of The Cure and a past version of yourself would be better than our school.

Works set in schools rarely create characters the show isn't going to focus on anyway. If the protagonists are the students, then expect about two adults to be consistent characters, representing all of the administration, educators, and various staff positions that a school would need, even a very small school. [[RecurringExtra Background adults]] may be replaced from a large pool of single-episode actors, or simply used a couple of times with no lines whatsoever.

* ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'': Mr. Milk and Mrs. Millet are the only known staff at Mu Elementary School, alongside the substitute teacher Mrs. Minty. There are other classrooms and buildings seen in the school, but we never get to see if they have any staff inside.

* ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'': Mr. Milk and Mrs. Millet are the only known staff at Mu Elementary School, alongside the substitute teacher Mrs. Minty. There are other classrooms and buildings seen in the school, but we never get to see if they have any more staff inside.