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** Same deal with ''{{Bully}}'', "graduating" from Bullworth Academy.

* ''AngelBeats''

* This is subverted by the ''HarryPotter'' books, which is notable in light of it being a school-based series, and most readers were probably expecting a graduation ending. Instead, in the last book Harry, Ron, and Hermione drop out of school to fight Voldemort. The book ends with the FinalBattle, followed by a brief DistantFinale. (According to WordOfGod, Hermione resumed her education after the Final Battle, but Harry and Ron didn't.)

* ''{{Grease}}''. [[DisContinuity What other movie?]]

* ''RecessSchoolsOut'' had the kids leave fourth grade in the beginning, as the movie was suppossed to be the GrandFinale. The kids are shown in fourth grade in the [[PostScriptSeason episodes after that]], only because the show was UnCanceled. We do see them move up to fifth grade in the 2003 DTV movie ''Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade''.

* ''{{Daria}}: [[TheMovie Is It College Yet?]]'' had [[DeadpanSnarker Daria, Jane]] and the rest of their class (except [[TooDumbToLive Kevin]]) get ready for college and graduate at the end. [[LovableLibby Quinn]] and her friends are a year younger, of course, so they just get to move on to senior year.

** Well, the Christmas special was made towards the begining of season four, but they held it off from airing until December (since ''Doug'' would usually air new episodes in the fall)
* ''{{Daria}}: Is It College Yet?'' (Most of the main teen characters graduate. Quinn and her friends head on to their next year, while Kevin has to stay back a year.)
* ''RecessSchoolsOut'' had the kids leave fourth grade in the begining, as the movie was suppossed to be the GrandFinale. The kids are shown in fourth grade in the episodes after that, only because the show was UnCanceled. We do see them move up to fifth grade in the 2003 DTV movie ''Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade''.

* ''HighSchoolMusical'': The third movie ends with their graduation... but there's floaty magical rumors about a fourth movie.
** Which cannot feature any original characters other than Sharpay.
*** ''College Musical'', anyone?

* ''{{Recess}}'' has TheMovie end with them leaving the fourth grade.

* Subverted in BuffyTheVampireSlayer despite graduating and blowing up their school on the [[HellGate Hellmouth]], the driving force of the story, at the end of the third season no major character has this happen to them. Three end up in a [[{{Angel}} new story]] and one leaves shortly after, but none leave because they graduated.

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* ''{{Ichigo One Hundred Percent}}''
* ''HeadOfTheClass''
* ''ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'': Videogame example, but yes.
* ''SchoolRumble'' Z.
* ''BigWolfOnCampus''
* ''{{Skins}}'' series 2. The third series featured a new cohort, including the former RecurringCharacter of Tony's little sister Effy.
* ''OjamajoDoremi'' ended with the characters graduating from ''elementary'' school.
* ''TheYoungOnes'' ends with the boys receiving their university results - "You have come last out of everyone in the world" - then deciding to [[spoiler:abandon the everyday world and hit the road (before [[KillEmAll crashing over a cliff and dying]])]]
* ''Even Stevens'' ended with Ren graduating middle school and going on to high school, but due to {{Dawson casting}} it felt like high school graduation.
* ''{{K-ON}}!!'', though there are two bonus episodes that follow to allow the audience a little more time with the cast.
* ''AngelBeats''
* ''ScaryGoRound'' ends with the school-age characters finishing school and going off to university or starting work, and Shelley leaving Tackleford to take a job in London.
* {{Recess}} has TheMovie end with them leaving the fourth grade.
* The ChristopherPike ''Final Friends'' mini-series ends with high school graduation.
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* The original version of ''{{Doug}}'' ends with them graduating to middle school. This is ignoring a ChristmasEpisode that aired nearly six months later and didn't really wrap anything up.

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* ''KimPossible''. The GrandFinale is even named "Graduation".
* ''AzumangaDaioh''
* ''{{Ichigo One Hundred Percent}}''
* ''HeadOfTheClass''

* ''ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'': Videogame example, but yes.

* The original version of ''{{Doug}}'' ends with them graduating to middle school. This is ignoring a ChristmasEpisode that aired nearly six months later and didn't really wrap anything up.
* ''SchoolRumble'' Z.
* ''{{Daria}}: Is It College Yet?'' (Most of the main teen characters graduate. Quinn and her friends head on to their next year, while Kevin has to stay back a year.)

* ''BigWolfOnCampus''
* ''{{Skins}}'' series 2. The third series featured a new cohort, including the former RecurringCharacter of Tony's little sister Effy.
* ''OjamajoDoremi'' ended with the characters graduating from ''elementary'' school.

* ''TheYoungOnes'' ends with the boys receiving their university results - "You have come last out of everyone in the world" - then deciding to [[spoiler:abandon the everyday world and hit the road (before [[KillEmAll crashing over a cliff and dying]])]]
* ''Even Stevens'' ended with Ren graduating middle school and going on to high school, but due to {{Dawson casting}} it felt like high school graduation.
* ''{{K-ON}}!!'', though there are two bonus episodes that follow to allow the audience a little more time with the cast.
* ''AngelBeats''
* This is subverted by the ''HarryPotter'' books, which is notable in light of it being a school-based series, and most readers were probably expecting a graduation ending. Instead, in the last book Harry, Ron, and Hermione drop out of school to fight Voldemort. The book ends with the FinalBattle, followed by a brief DistantFinale. (According to WordOfGod, Hermione resumed her education after the Final Battle, but Harry and Ron didn't.)
* ''ScaryGoRound'' ends with the school-age characters finishing school and going off to university or starting work, and Shelley leaving Tackleford to take a job in London.
* {{Recess}} has TheMovie end with them leaving the fourth grade.
* Subverted in BuffyTheVampireSlayer despite graduating and blowing up their school on the [[HellGate Hellmouth]], the driving force of the story, at the end of the third season no major character has this happen to them. Three end up in a [[{{Angel}} new story]] and one leaves shortly after, but none leave because they graduated.
* The ChristopherPike ''Final Friends'' mini-series ends with high school graduation.

* Inverted and played with in ''{{Disgaea 3}}'': a graduation does play an important part in the story, but [[spoiler: it happens in the ''middle'' of the main plot, enabling Raspberyl, Kyoko and Asuka to become full time {{Player Character}}s now that they don't have to worry about mantaining their perfect attendence any longer]].
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* This is averted by the ''HarryPotter'' books, which is notable in light of it being a school-based series. In the last book, Harry, Ron, and Hermione drop out of school to fight Voldemort. The book ends with the FinalBattle, followed by a brief DistantFinale. According to WordOfGod, Hermione resumed her education after the Final Battle, but Harry and Ron didn't.

* Subverted in BuffyTheVampireSlayer despite graduating and blowing up their school on the [[HellGate Hellmouth]], the driving force of the story, at the end of the third season no major character has this happen to them. Three end up in a [[{{Angel}}new story]] and one leaves shortly after, but none leave because they graduated.

* Subverted in BuffyTheVampireSlayer despite graduating and blowing up their school on the [[HellGate Hellmouth]], the driving force of the story, at the end of the third season no major character has this happen to them. Three end up in a [[{{Angle}}new story]] and one leaves shortly after, but none leave because they graduated.

* Subverted in BuffyTheVampireSlayer despite graduating and blowing up their school at the end of the third season no major character has this happen to them. Three end up in a [[{{Angle}}new story]] and one leaves shortly after, but none leave because they graduated.

* ''TheYoungOnes'' ends with the boys receiving their university results - "You have come last out of everyone in the world" - then deciding to [[spoiler: abandon the everyday world and hit the road (before [KillEmAll crashing over a cliff and dying]])]]

This is TruthInTelevison, as many school friendships are broken up (at least partially) as the group's members go to different schools in the new year. Even when friends keep in touch afterward, a good portion of their time together is cut short as they no longer attend the same campus.

So you're ending a series. So the series has been based in/around high school for years. How to end it? Take a dose of {{Truth in Television}}, because we're ending our high school years by... graduating.

* ''Even Stevens'' ended with Ren graduating middle school and going on to high school, but due to {{dawson casting}} it felt like high school graduation.

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