History Main / ElevatorSchool

* ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs''[='=] Lillian Girls School runs from kindergarten through university. It's mentioned that most of the cast have attended for their entire school days with flashbacks to previous years (Sei and Eriko's first meeting during Kindergarten, Sei and Youko's meeting during Middle School, and Sachiko's childhood through her classmate's eyes). Sei, herself, is currently attending the University, though she had to take the entrance exams because she was late getting her paperwork.

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* A significant minority of schools in UsefulNotes/HongKong are part of the "Through-Train" Sytem (in Chinese, 一條龍學校, ''yāttìuhlùhng hohkhaauh'', or "One-Dragon Schools") and cover both primary and secondary education, sometimes even on the same campus. This list of schools include multiple traditional "elite" schools with religious background (most famously [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Co-educational_College St Paul's Co-educational College]] and the sister schools [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocesan_Boys%27_School Diocesan Boys' School]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocesan_Girls%27_School Diocesan Girls' School]]), but there are also others like various schools operated by charities (e.g. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po_Leung_Kuk Po Leung Kuk]], Hong Kong Japanese school (an international school), and Sha Tin Public School (a school for intellectually disabled children and youths).

* A significant minority of schools in UsefulNotes/HongKong are part of the "Through-Train" Sytem (in Chinese, 一條龍學校, ''yāttìuhlùhng hohkhaauh'', or "One-Dragon Schools") and cover both primary and secondary education, sometimes even on the same campus. This list of schools include multiple traditional "elite" schools with religious background (most famously [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Co-educational_College St Paul's Co-educational College]] and the sister schools [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocesan_Boys%27_School Diocesan Boys' School]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocesan_Girls%27_School Diocesan Girls' School]]), but there are also others like various schools operated by charities, Hong Kong Japanese school (an international school), and Sha Tin Public School (a school for intellectually disabled children and youths).

* A significant minority of schools in UsefulNotes/HongKong are part of the "Through-Train" Sytem (in Chinese, 一條龍學校, ''yāttìuhlùhng hohkhaauh'', or "One-Dragon Schools") and cover both primary and secondary school, sometimes even on the same campus. This list of schools include multiple traditional "elite" schools with religious background (most famously [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Co-educational_College St Paul's Co-educational College]] and the sister schools [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocesan_Boys%27_School Diocesan Boys' School]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocesan_Girls%27_School Diocesan Girls' School]]), but there are also others like various schools operated by charities, Hong Kong Japanese school (an international school), and Sha Tin Public School (a school for intellectually disabled children and youths).

* TruthInTelevision: some American Private schools (usually of the religious type) and some rural public schools are small enough to have a K-12 range of students. Some charter school systems are like this, as well, though they may also subvert this by dividing grade levels up across a geographical area (i.e., providing elementary and middle school in one neighborhood and high school in another).

* Many Chilean schools also go from elementary to highschool. It used to be mostly associated with private schools, but many public ones also follow the model (specially if they're either very prestigious or are of the kind that takes in kids that are otherwise rejected by the education model)

* The Grupo Objetivo in Brazil works this way. There are schools from the kindergarten to the high school and preparatory schools for the universities' admission exam (aka "vestibular") named "Colégio Objetivo". Their owner also own the Associação Unificada Paulista de Ensino Renovado Objetivo, that contains 21 colleges, so one person can go from kindergaten to the grad school without exiting its domains.

* The Collegium Caelum in ''Roleplay/DeptHeavenApocrypha'' teaches preschool through grad school. Most people transfer in because of scholarships, though, because the cost of actually ''going'' to the school from ages six to twenty-six is exorbitant.

* Ouran Academy in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', which despite the series' title isn't just a high school; it's a huge institution for rich students that contains grades from kindergarten to high school.

* Morinomiya in ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'' is known to have at least a middle school section and a high school section.

* Mahora Academy in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is an elevator school (starting from kindergarten), though it mainly focuses on the middle school division since Negi teaches a middle school class. Despite being an elevator schoo, a condition of Negi's continuing employment (and thus receiving his magic license) is that he must get the class exam averages up -- specifically those of the five worst students, the self-proclaimed "Baka Rangers" (Asuna, Yue, Kaede, Makie and Kuu Fei).

* Mahora Academy in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is an elevator school (starting from kindergarten), though it mainly focuses on the middle school division since Negi teaches a middle school class. A condition of Negi's continuing employment (and thus receiving his magic license) is that he must get the class exam averages up -- specifically those of the five worst students, the self-proclaimed "Baka Rangers" (Asuna, Yue, Kaede, Makie and Kuu Fei).

* Mahora Academy in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is an elevator school (starting from kindergarten), but a condition of Negi's continuing employment (and thus receiving his magic license) is that he must get the class exam averages up -- specifically those of the five worst students, the self-proclaimed "Baka Rangers" (Asuna, Yue, Kaede, Makie and Kuu Fei).

* In ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'', [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia U.A.]] goes becomes this a year before the story starts due to [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Rias Gremory]] attending it and thus needing all of her peerage, some who are not of high school age at the time they are reincarnated into devils, to be near her.

* Ouran Academy in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', which despite the series' title isn't just a high school; it's an ElaborateUniversityHigh for rich students that contains grades from kindergarten to high school.

* Mahora Academy in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is an elevator school (starting from kindergarten), but a condition of Negi's continuing employment (and thus receiving his magic license) is that he must get the class exam averages up -- specifically those of the five worst students, the self-proclaimed "Baka Rangers" (Asuna, Yue, Kaede, Makie and Kuu Fei).
* Ouran Academy in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', which contains kindergarten, elementary school, middle school and high school branches.

* Eriol Academy from ''Manga/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer''.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon''.

* Saki Girls School in ''Manga/GirlsHigh''

* The titular setting from from ''Manga/AliceAcademy'' has elementary, middle and high school education. In this case, it has to be an escalator school because it serves as a WizardingSchool for students whose powers might not be discovered until they're teenagers, or might get noticed as toddlers.

* The school from Manga/AssassinationClassroom counts, but the fail condition is made very clear - the students will not be allowed to continue attendance if they're part of Class E by the end of the year, with being part of the class having [[MarkOfShame a certain]] [[TheExile social stigma]] (Nagisa's friends completely abandon him when he's moved to class E). That, plus the fact that it's in the old school building, is one of the reasons everyone is given a contract on their superhuman sensei.

* ''[[FanFic/TheMysteriousSchool The Mysterious School]]'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name says,]] has the Artemis Kuroshi School. The twist is that there are no exams needed to get in: accept the invitation and you immediately are let in.

Not to be confused with {{Literature/Wayside School}}, where nobody uses the elevators anyway.

* Shuchi'in Academy in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' runs all the way from elementary school to university, though there is apparently some form of entrance exam going between the different levels, since [[spoiler:Kyoko had to transfer to another school when she failed]]. Given that most of the students tend to be the children of rather influential people (politicians, [=CEOs=], etc), there is a division between the "pures" (those that went up through the elevator system) and the "impures" (those that started attending later on).

* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru''[='=] Lillian Girls School runs from kindergarten through university. It's mentioned that most of the cast have attended for their entire school days with flashbacks to previous years (Sei and Eriko's first meeting during Kindergarten, Sei and Youko's meeting during Middle School, and Sachiko's childhood through her classmate's eyes). Sei, herself, is currently attending the University, though she had to take the entrance exams because she was late getting her paperwork.

* Before the 20th century, due to limited transportation, the need for children to help their parents out on the farm, and the lack of teachers, especially in the frontier, most schools of the era had a dizzying range of age for the students.

* TruthInTelevision: some American Private schools (usually of the Religious type) and some rural public schools are small enough to have a K-12 range of students. Some charter school systems are like this, as well, though they may also subvert this by dividing grade levels up across a geographical area (i.e., providing elementary and middle school in one neighborhood and high school in another).

Also called an ''escalator school''. A kind of school consisting of an institution which offers education from elementary or middle school (or even from kindergarten) until the university.

Often, elementary school, middle school, high school, and college are separate institutions requiring that prospective students pass rigid entrance examinations at each transition. Elevator schools, however, allow students to move to the next educational level without having to take the standard entrance exams. (In particular, they allow students to bypass the notoriously hellish high-school entrance examinations.) Despite or perhaps because of this, elevator schools often themselves require students to pass an examination to gain admission at all.

In most countries, this is simply what the public school system ''does'', taking in any and all students of the appropriate age living in a defined geographic area. Some countries (such as UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}) almost all private schools are elevator schools and they are typically very expensive and prestigious, so expect the student body to display LuxuryTropes.

Also called an ''escalator school''. An kind of school consisting of an institution which offers education from elementary or middle school (or even from kindergarten) until the university.

** Mugen Gakuen (Infinity Academy) is one, but acts as a cover for the villans of the 3rd arc. It's rarely seen acting as an actual school (though it is one) and is destroyed in the arc's climax.