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7	[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superhero_school.png]]]]
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10	->'''Colonel Stryker:''' We've managed to gather evidence of a mutant training facility in the Salem region of upstate New York.\
11	'''Senator Kelly:''' This facility is a school.\
12	'''Stryker:''' Sure it is.
13	-->-- ''Film/X2XMenUnited''
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15	It's like a normal school. Drab classrooms with blackboards, hallways with lockers -- and a danger room. Maybe even a hidden hangar. Oh, and the students all have superpowers, of course.
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17	This is Superhero School, where young superhumans [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld wake up, go to learn about their powers and how to use them for good]]. A subtrope of ExtranormalInstitute, where it's often not the place that's unusual, but the students. And sometimes the faculty.
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19	Often inverted by introducing a [[AcademyOfEvil super villain school]]. You will also see instances where the school takes a neutral posture about heroism or villainy, focusing on teaching the students to control and make the most of their superpowers - with the result that aspiring heroes end up in classes next to wannabee villains, possibly among a larger group of kids who [[IJustWantToBeNormal just want to get on with their lives]].
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21	Maybe we can excuse it for possibly being an ElaborateUniversityHigh. Often has DangerRoomColdOpen scenes. {{Badass Teacher}}s are a given.
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23	In stories where this is the primary setting, you can expect there to be at least one significant case of PowerIncontinence and/or missing RequiredSecondaryPowers (as seen in the TropeMaker, ''ComicBook/XMen'', with ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}), and numerous instances of HowDoIShotWeb and BoxingLessonsForSuperman, as ways of justifying the trope. May also include classes on the MundaneUtility of different power sets if the focus isn't solely on heroics.
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25	Compare with AcademyOfAdventure, WizardingSchool, NinjaSchool, HeroAcademy, and AllGhoulsSchool. A dark take on this trope can turn it into a SchoolForScheming. See also SuperheroCapitalOfTheWorld.
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31	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
32	* Academy City in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' is dedicated to the study and development of psychic powers, with students who have undergone the development program comprising the vast majority of the population.
33	* The eponymous school in ''Manga/GakuenAlice''. While the "hero" part is debatable, it's a school for people with powers, most of which easily qualify as "super".
34	* The main setting for ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' is U.A. High School, which is considered the best superhero school in Japan. Main character Izuku Midoriya goes here to learn to become a professional hero alongside his classmates. While the school is mainly known for its Hero department, it also has other departments for General Education (for students whose abilities aren't considered fitting enough to be heroes or those who are aiming for different careers), Support (for students who are learning to develop gadgets and equipment for heroes to use on the battlefield), and Management (for students who are aiming for work in the business side of heroes, like managing hero agencies, executive producing heroes, and even venture capitalism). There are other Pro Hero schools in the country as well, such as Shiketsu High and Ketsubutsu Academy.
35	* The Death Weapon Meister Academy in ''Manga/SoulEater'' is a school where {{shapeshifter weapon}}s and those who wield them train to fight evil. Missions are part of their schoolwork.
36	* ''Manga/TalentlessNana'' is set in a specialized school to train "Talented"/superpowered individuals to fight against a vaguely defined "Enemy of Humanity". [[spoiler:In truth, the "Talented" individuals ''are'' the "Enemy of Humanity" -- or, at least, that's how the rest of the world views them; the academy is a government program intended to gather and isolate these dangerous individuals and eliminate them while they're unaware.]]
37	* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' has The Hero Academy where young NEXT (what the series calls [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual individuals who develop superpowers]]) can learn how to use their abilities and become {{Corporate Sponsored Super Hero}}es. Although notably attending is not a mandatory requirement to becoming a hero, and of the two title characters, only one is a graduate. It's implied the academy wasn't even around yet when the other title character first started in the hero business. Also many of the students have abilities that are more in line with BlessedWithSuck or would not be flashy enough to pique the interest of a sponsor company.
38	* To an extent, Duel Academia in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' -- at least, it was designed specifically to train duelists strong enough to defend [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique three dangerous forbidden cards]] from falling into the wrong hands, and it's a WeirdnessMagnet for kids with the power to communicate with spirits from another world.
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41	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
42	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Headmaster Tele is the principle of a school which teaches superheroes about various superpowers and similar subjects. According to what Tele says in one episode about some marks left by previous students, the likes of such famous superheroes as ComicBook/SpiderMan were taught at that school.
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45	[[folder:Comic Books]]
46	* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', this is how Sophie learned to control her powers: she was coached by Plymouth, an ex-hero, along with a stack of 'How To' books.
47	* ComicBook/TheAvengers:
48	** ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'' program is somewhat like this, but blurs the line heavily between "school" and "boot camp". Not many other examples listed here take young teens and put sniper rifles in their hands...
49	** Initiative's successor ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' is a more traditional example, except [[spoiler:it's more about training kids so they ''wouldn't'' become supervillains]].
50	** In a later arc, they moved the Academy to the old West Coast Avengers compound and added a bunch of other teen heroes as students.
51	** ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' later introduced ComicBook/CaptainBritain's Braddock Academy, the Avengers Academy's TransAtlanticEquivalent.
52	** ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}: The Hunt'' then introduced several other international schools for superheroes (or villains): The Wakandan School for Alternative Studies, the Latverian School of Science and the Pan-Asian School for the Unusually Gifted.
53	* ''Super School'' a comic strip which feature in the Britsh comic ''ComicBook/TheBeano''. In this strip the idea of a superhero school is PlayedForLaughs. Extra points for the strip's title is almost the name of this trope.
54	* The ''ComicBook/{{Crucible}}'' story arc has ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} attending one of these -Crucible Academy-, with heroes from all across the galaxy both new and some which had not been seen on DC titles for some time (like the Post-Flashpoint version of Maxima).
55	* The ComicBook/FantasticFour have the [[ComicBook/{{FF}} Future Foundation]].
56	* The French comic ''ComicBook/FreaksSqueele'' revolves around the students' life in a university for heroes, specialized in (pretty lame) bad guys and villains.
57	* ''ComicBook/GladstonesSchoolForWorldConquerors'' by Mark Andrew Smith and Armand Villavert, a comic series published by Image Comics in 2011 and collected as a graphic novel in 2012. Though this series also arguably fits in the ''Academy of Evil'' category, there are (spoiler) reasons why it also belongs here.
58	* The mini-series ''ComicBook/{{Grounded}}'' follows the only normal kid in the school for superpowered teens. In this case he's the odd one out for wanting to be a hero, in spite of his powerlessness; the other kids might be the children of superheroes and have abilities of their own, but in general they aren't interested in running off to try and save the world once they've graduated - most of them want to use their powers in the most self-serving way possible, and three in particular want to be villains!
59	* ''ComicBook/HeroCamp'' is sort of like this, but, you know, summer camp instead of an actual school.
60	* The Seminary in ''ComicBook/TheIntimates'', where powered teens are sent by their stage parents to develop skills they wish they didn't have. Courses include Secret Identities (taught by an obvious analogue of Superman, right down to the glasses) and Morality (the instructor of which had over 32 confirmed kills in MediaNotes/{{theDarkAge\|OfComicBooks}}).
61	* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' have the Legion Academy which exists to train potential future members of the Legion. However, some students chose to take what they have learned and return to their homeworlds to act as local heroes.
62	* ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'' had a Superhero ''Orphanage'': the Xavier Shelter for Indigent Children in ''X-Nation 2099''. Run by a group of [[ChurchMilitant warrior nuns]] called Sister Nicholas and the Howlin' Commandments.
63	* The comic ''ComicBook/NecessaryEvil'' has the eponymous Supervillan School. They've also implied the existence of a good counterpart.
64	* ''ComicBook/PrideHigh'' has this as its core premise: a gay/straight alliance at a superhero high school.
65	* ''ComicBook/PS238'' -- a superhero ''public'' school.
66	** And the Praetorian Academy, [=PS238=]'s rival which is heavily troped to be a supervillain school: you've got your Evil Headmaster, your Military Discipline, your Faceless Minion Masks, your overly-militaristic student codenames, and of course the overwhelming arrogance that they are far superior to their rival school.
67	*** Also, [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat they cheat at soccer]].
68	*** [[spoiler:Which is eventually subverted; the discipline and the minion masks, as it turns out, is not to create supervillains; it's because the headmaster uses them as methods to instill order and curtail what he views as tendencies towards becoming "uncontrolled" metahumans. [[UnreliableExpositor Or so he says]]. He's a former US Senator with a strong anti-metahuman bias who got bonded to an experimental AI. Who knows just how sane he is anymore.]]
69	* The manga-inspired French comic book ''Manga/SentaiSchool''.
70	* [[ShoutOut Shuster Academy]] from ''ComicBook/{{Sidekicks}}''.
71	* In ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' we have the ''ComicBook/TeenTitansAcademy'', where veteran Teen Titans members teach the next generation.
72	* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] has to go to one after he gets out of school. His teachers? Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man. Averted when they actually sit down and try to teach him. Iron Man basically admits he has no lesson plan and his "Training" quickly just becomes him and Peter hanging out and talking about technology. Captain America (who actually suggested Peter be forced to give up being Spider-Man) only takes him out into a veteran cemetery and try to shame him into quitting. Thor, meanwhile, never gets a chance to talk to Peter.
73	* The eponymous institute in ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', though its seven students are never shown in a classroom or studying.
74	* Liberty Vocational, in Creator/NaomiNovik's ''ComicBook/WillSupervillainsBeOnTheFinal'' series, offers classes ranging from designing costumes to discussing the ethics of superhero-dom.
75	* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
76	** [[ComicBook/ProfessorX Professor Charles Xavier]]'s School for Gifted Youngsters is the Trope Maker.
77	** Depending on the continuity, ComicBook/EmmaFrost's school, the [[ComicBook/GenerationX Massachusetts Academy]], may count as a supervillain school if she is Xavier's foe.
78	** For the first 7 issues it functioned as a school where the original five X-Men learned how to master the powers, afterwards the Xavier Academy jumped around a bit between being a Superhero School, and a superhero base which happened to be disguised as a school, largely because until ComicBook/KittyPryde joined the Creator/ChrisClaremont "all-new all-different" X-Men's ages ranged from the 20s onwards, with none of them even of college age. In the ''ComicBook/NewMutants'', Xavier's school functions as both a superhero school, and a base, with even some of the X-Men helping to train the New Mutants. The [[Film/XMenFilmSeries films]] cemented the concept in people's minds by depicting the X-Men as teachers of a large non-superhero student body, and the {{Comic Book}}s [[RetCanon followed suit]]. Xavier's school now has a lot of non-superhero mutants of all ages, learning to control their powers as well as reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. A few of them 'graduate' to X-Men status. There's also a relatively new X-comic focusing on the students (of course, trouble seems to find ''them'') that's pretty much a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Generation X'' and ''ComicBook/NewMutants''. Its title changes a lot, though.
79	** It got to the point where Xavier's 'school' was so chock-full of adult superheroes that they changed the name from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngers to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, making it a superhero ''college'', and opened a franchise with the formerly evil rival Massachusetts Academy for ''ComicBook/GenerationX''.
80	** Played straighter with the ''original'' (pre-Wolverine) X-Men, who were of high school age at the time the group was formed.
81	** The fallout of the ''ComicBook/{{Schism}}'' storyline had Wolverine establishing the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning, largely featuring students from the defunct Xavier Institute.
82	** Meanwhile, the fallout of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' has a rogue ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, Emma Frost, and ComicBook/{{Magneto}} running the "New Charles Xavier School for Mutants". While unlike any previous incarnation its existence is secret and it doesn't present itself as a real private school (Cyclops and his team being outlaws and all), there ''are'' classrooms and the senior members do teach newly manifested mutants.
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85	[[folder:Fan Works]]
86	* ''Webcomic/AutobotAcademy'': The titular Autobot Academy and most of the other schools train their students how to be heroes and help them master their talents so they can be used to help others.
87	* In the ''Our Own League'' fan novels, the ComicBook/TeenTitans are emphasized as a semiofficial school for underaged superheroes rather than just sidekicks striking out on their own. There are actual classes (homework and all,) with the team's founding members (Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, Arsenal, and Tempest,) as part-time instructors.
88	* The eponymous academy in ''Fanfic/SlayerAcademy'', a virtual series spin-off of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', was built with the purpose of training all the new Slayers in the use of their abilities.
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91	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
92	* Peter from ''Film/EpicMovie'' went to Mutant Academy of Arts and Sciences where he gets bullied by parodies of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' characters.
93	* Disney's ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', an almost platonic ideal of the trope, with retired superheroes as disgruntled teachers and a bunch of wannabe students, mostly the children of famous superheroes.
94	* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels introduced the Jedi Academy.
95	* ''Film/SuperheroMovie'' also parodies ''X-Men'' with Xavier's School for the Non-Asian Gifted which has children who can walk through walls and children who think they can walk through walls.
96	* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': This is the only entry in the First Class trilogy where we get to see a fully operational Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Since mutants aren't hiding from humans in the AlternateTimeline after 1973, the [[http://collider.com/x-men-apocalypse-news-things-to-know/ school's enrollment is much greater than what we saw in the original trilogy,]] plus there is generally less angst among the youngsters due to society being more accepting of them (relatively speaking).
97	* ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' got its own made-for-TV movie in 1996.
98	* ''Film/ZoomAcademyForSuperheroes'' is about a retired superhero called in to train a group of super-powered youngsters at Area 52.
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101	[[folder:Literature]]
102	* ''Literature/{{Citadel}}'' by Unillustrated has, well, the Citadel. A government program where super powered people, Empowered, are trained to be Operatives. Closer to SWAT teams than typical superheroes.
103	* Inverted by Catherine Jenks' ''Literature/EvilGeniusTrilogy''.
104	* The ''Literature/HIVESeries'' focuses on a school for supervillains.
105	%% * ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight''.
106	* ''Literature/TheLastSuperhero'' has The University of The Phoenix, [[spoiler:which is secretly also an AcademyOfEvil, training villains to oppose its superhero graduates]].
107	* In the ''My Brother Blubb'' book series, both a superhero school ''and'' a supervillain school are featured.
108	* The New Human Institute in ''Literature/TheNewHumans'', a school/care home for superhuman children in Australia.
109	* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has Camp Half-Blood, a combination summer camp, training ground, and haven for demigods.
110	** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' introduces Camp Jupiter, which is much the same.
111	* Kitty Burrows' ''Literature/ThePosterchildren'' deals with a large group of characters connected to a school for mutants. The main book focuses on a group of students, but there are also stories focusing on parents, alumni, teachers, and people with even more tenuous connections.
112	* The Estate in ''Literature/TheRook'' trains students to use their supernatural powers.
113	* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', Drearcliff Grange is a 1930s girls' school which takes "talented" students. Combined with BoardingSchoolOfHorrors for a parody of Girls' School stories of the period. (Incidentally, the headmistress makes it clear that she doesn't much care if one of her girls becomes a super''villain'' instead of a super''hero'', just so long as she makes use of her talent and doesn't settle for being mundane. ''Literature/TheHauntingOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'' suggests that girls are at least ''encouraged'' to be a Paladin rather than a Wrong 'Un, and introduces Drearcliff's AcademyOfEvil counterpart Draycott's House of Reform.)
114	* The very straightforwardly titled ''Superhero School'', an illustrated book for kids by Aaron Reynolds and Andy Rash, published in 2009 by Bloomsbury. Leonard is the only kid on his block who can knock a baseball into orbit or clobber the occasional, rampaging lava monster, so he's not surprised when his parents switch him to superhero school. When he gets there, though, he's disappointed that his teacher, Mr. Blue Tornado, is much more interested in teaching fractions and multiplication than techniques for catching runaway trains or fighting space octopi.
115	* ''Literature/SuperPowereds'' has five universities in the US that offer the Hero Certification Program for Supers, who wish to become fully-licensed Heroes. The tetralogy is focused on the HCP at Lander University (Lander, CA), although the others are mentioned in spin-offs and on the author's website: Korman University (BigApplesauce), Sizemore Tech (Chicago), West Private University (Orlando), and Overton University (Overton, TX). Other countries have varying means of certifying Supers for Hero work, and there are no international agreements to allow Heroes to operate internationally. HCP involves TrainingFromHell in order to weed out the merely willing from the willing and able. Hundreds of Supers apply each year, only scores are accepted into each school's HCP, only to either quit or be cut from the program. It's possible for those, who haven't made the cut for next year to re-apply, competing with students from the year behind them for spots. Each school graduates only ten Heroes per year. Besides regular (non-Super) classes, HCP students also have several hours of exhausting gym each day to prepare their bodies and to hone their fighting skills. Additionally, as the HCP students advance in years, their classes grow more specialized based on their abilities and powers (Close Combat, Ranged Combat, Weapons, Focus, Control, and Subtlety). Also, while in in the program, students are required to keep the fact that they're in the HCP (or even that they're Supers) a secret from everyone outside the program, which means they can't use their powers in public or attract unwanted attention. HCP facilities are typically located underground, away from prying eyes, with elevators leading to it from dorms with HCP students. During graduation, each new Hero wears a ceremonial white cape. Also, this is where they register their new Hero names (names have to be unique, except in case of legacy names, but those require permission from the original). After that, recent graduates are required to undergo a two-year internship under an experienced Hero.
116	* The WebOriginal fiction series [[Literature/WhateleyUniverse Whateley Academy]] is built around this trope. In this [[TheVerse universe]], [[PubertySuperpower mutant traits manifest around fourteen years of age]] (often even if [[CompulsorySchoolAge starting out older]]), so mutants from all over the world go to high school at [[ShoutOut Whateley]] Academy in [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Dunwich]], New Hampshire. There is a danger room equivalent or two, martial arts, magic arts, and psychic arts classes, and curricula ranging from normal high school stuff all the way to 'workshop' courses that teach young mad scientists how to make power armor and killer robots. Elective / specialist classes include Costume Shop, Intro to Flight, Psychic Ethics...
117	** However, school administration insists that under the Whateley Charter they are an AcademyOfAdventure instead of a Superhero School. Whateley is ''strictly neutral'', accepts any and all mutants, good, evil or neutral; powerful, weak, or [[CosmicHorror Class X]], and is protected and funded by several groups of heroes, villains, and "superneutrals" to provide a safe location for superpowered children to grow up. The headmistress (a retired heroine of some renown) has had to remind several groups (especially the protagonists) of this fact repeatedly. This treaty [[TruceZone also forbids any faction to attack any other faction on the Whateley campus]] on pain of all Charter signatories going EnemyMine on the perpetrator. Parent-teacher conference day must be quite an experience for all concerned...
118	*** Later developments reveal that many of Whateley's faculty are former villains and heroes who wanted to retire from "the Biz" and there's an unofficial agreement that the headmaster and assistant headmaster come from opposite sides to ensure balance: If the headmaster is a hero, then the assistant must be a villain, and vice-versa. Faculty and Staff conferences must be even more interesting than parent-teacher conferences.
119	** Note also that the world at large is predominantly CapePunk, and even on campus, emotional trauma, serious injuries, and even deaths occur with fearsome frequency. Graduates who go into either the hero or villain biz - or even those who [[IJustWantToBeNormal just try to live an ordinary life]] - often ''really, really'' '''''need''''' what they learn at Whateley, and even then, it may not be enough.
120	--> ''"In real life, we supervillains play for keeps. One of the reasons why there [have been] so many short-lived superheroes was that they were literally '''short-lived'''"''.
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123	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
124	* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'' has a school set up to take in young returnees who may not be welcome in regular schools. Owing to genetic meddling, several of these children had abilities like precognition and electrical manipulation.
125	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the Time Lord Academy. Level of heroism of graduates may vary.
126	* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'' has an episode set in one. [[spoiler: Actually a hallucination created by a demented telepathic former hero.]]
127	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has Tracy setting up one of these in a graphic novel.
128	* ''Series/{{The Boys\|2019}}'' spinoff ''Series/GenV'' is set at Godolkin University, a college run by Vought International to train the next generation of superheroes. [[spoiler:It's all a front for Vought to secretly experiment on Supes and find out what makes them tick.]]
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131	[[folder:Roleplay]]
132	* ''Roleplay/MySuperheroAcademy'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The RP is set in Saint Academy, where young superpowered individuals learn to become heroes.
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135	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
136	* ''TabletopGame/MasksANewGeneration'' has Phoenix Academy in its setting of Halcyon City, the school name coming from the amount of times the school has been destroyed and rebuilt.
137	* The primary setting, Freedom City, for the TabletopRPG ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' has at least one of these. It was called the Claremont Academy as a blatant ShoutOut to writer X-Men Creator/ChrisClaremont.
138	** The Tomorrow Academy in ''TabletopGame/HaltEvilDoer!'' for ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''.
139	* Ravenswood Academy from the ''[[TabletopGame/{{Champions}} Teen Champions]]'' sourcebook.
140	* in ''[[TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse Sentinel Comics: The RPG]]'', the Freedom Five become the Sentinels of Freedom and open Freedom Academy at Freedom Plaza (built on the site where Freedom Tower used to reside before professional reality destroyer [=OblivAeon=] destroyed it) to teach the next generation of heroes.
141	* ''TabletopGame/VillainsAndVigilantes'' had an introductory adventure, ''Crisis at Crusader Citadel,'' where the players have to temporarily stand in for the eponymous hero team. The latest version of the game explains in its background section the Crusaders are still around but have retired from fighting crime to run one of these.
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144	[[folder:Video Games]]
145	* ''VideoGame/AvengersAcademy'' is a free-to-play mobile game that brings back Marvel's popular icons mysteriously [[YoungerAndHipper de-aged]] into young heroes where they deal with periodic invasions, [[AcademyOfEvil villainous rival schools]], and awkward dates.
146	* ''VideoGame/CommunityCollegeHero'' has three schools. The one you're attending is a new school for wannabe heroes without enough power to warrant the attention of the more prestigious schools.
147	* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, a summer camp for kids with PsychicPowers that functions similarly to this trope.
148	* ''Spandex Force 2: Superhero U'' is a parody of the trope.
149	* This is the hook behind the Skeelz gang in ''VideoGame/UrbanRivals'', being literally a private academy for burgeoning superhumans and comprising of students and faculty out for blood against punks stepping to their turf.
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152	[[folder:Webcomics]]
153	%%* ''Webcomic/BadGuyHigh''
154	* Subverted in the webcomic ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', where Summer Mighty attends a normal high school. WordOfGod has it that there is an after-school program for superhumans.
155	* In the Webcomic ''Webcomic/EvilInc.'', the eponymous corporation of supervillains started with an evil daycare center for employees' kids, and has recently moved up to an evil education program.
156	* ''Webcomic/TheHeroesOfCrash'', where knockout gas and grappling hooks are considered school supplies.
157	* The facilities in ''Webcomic/{{Inhibit}}'' train variants to control their variations.
158	* The {{webcomic}} ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'', which focuses on the special challenges of an aspiring BadassNormal.
159	* The {{webcomic}} ''Webcomic/MallvilleRules'', which is a parody of the traditional super hero high school. It focuses on a normal kid and his idiot friends.
160	* The eponymous school of ''Webcomic/OverlordAcademy'' is a school for supervillains.
161	* In ''Webcomic/{{Pulse}}'' a city is built in the Great Lakes near Michigan to hide an underground Government complex meant to train superhumans.
162	* In ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}'' all supublics are sent to Justice College the moment their superpower manifests. Those who don't are labelled villains.
163	* Downplayed in ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': There is a school reserved for Magical Girls, but it's mostly a normal school with hours adjusted so girls can sleep after fighting monsters all night long.
164	* ''Webcomic/SpecialSchool'' Which is actually a special class for super-powered students, but held in a normal school.
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167	[[folder:Web Original]]
168	* ''Literature/AcademyOfSuperheroes'': ''Academy'' is the origin story of most of the ASH and STRAFE characters. It is set at the eponymous Academy of Superheroes.
169	* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' is set in a superhero themed high school. ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Batman}} have long since graduated however a large number of DC heroes -- such as ComicBook/WonderWoman, ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'' -- currently attend it. Traditional villains, such as Harley Queen, Poison Ivy, and Cheetah, also attend it as heroes.
170	* The web serial ''Literature/TheDescendants'' is packed to the gills with these; from the now-defunct Psionics Training and Application Academy run by the BigBad, to the Liedecker Institute currently being run by the heroes in unknowing cooperation with the local AntiVillain. There are at least three other schools mentioned so far as well.
171	* ''Roleplay/FreedomCityPlayByPost'' maintains one of these, that continuity's version of the Claremont Academy mentioned above under ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''. Claremont, a friendly place in a friendly city, is run by Duncan Summers, the local {{Expy}} of the Neal Adams-era Batman, with the standard tropes of the Superhero School genre. Only makes occasional use of [[CanonSue canon]] characters, as of course they're all [=NPCs=]. Is somewhat more realistic than some super-schools in that [[TykeBomb kiddie supervillians]] get counseling.
172	* In ''Literature/{{Phaeton}}'' one of the buildings in the Orphanage doubles as this. Though the main characters do not generally go there.
173	* Inverted in the web video, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyi0qEvB03A Reunion]]'': Music/DoctorSteel calls up fellow mad scientist WebVideo/AgamemnonTiberiusVacuum and invites him to the 10th annual Mad Scientist's reunion - implying that they attended some Mad Scientist school together in the past.
174	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The premise of the first three seasons is about the main characters going to Beacon Academy. They learn about being huntsmen and using their semblances.
175	* ''WebVideo/SuperAcademy'' is, as the title suggests, centered around one of these.
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178	[[folder:Western Animation]]
179	* In ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' , Super Hero High School fits this trope. The [[WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls newer version of the series]] averts this trope, with all the heroes going to a normal school in their secret identities.
180	* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Dimmsdale Elementary briefly becomes one thanks to Timmy's wishing.
181	* ''WesternAnimation/HeroElementary'' is about an elementary school where kids learn to be superheroes, although there are no secret identities involved. It's based on a book called ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Super Hero School]]'' by Aaron Reynolds.
182	* The cartoon ''WesternAnimation/HeroHigh''.
183	* The Spanish cartoon ''WesternAnimation/HeroKids'', heavily inspired by the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' in addition to this trope.
184	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' features a variation, being about a school for the {{Kid Sidekick}}s of superheroes.
185	* The ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Academy in later episodes of ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]: Web Warriors''.
186	* The school that the main four characters go to in ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernormal}}''.
187	* The Xavier Institute also features in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' in its role as a Superhero School; however, the X-Men also attend regular school at Bayville High. How the kids going to ''two'' schools is explained to parents and such who don't know what Xavier's really is is never addressed. For the first two seasons it's the usual high school antics complicated by keeping their powers a secret while season three focuses on what happens when the {{Masquerade}} breaks and the other students find out their secret.
188	** At the Institute, they learn power control, at school they just have normal school. The Institute teaches them how to use their powers and fit in.
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