History Main / InnerCitySchool

* All the high schools in Takahashi Hiroshi's works. Both ''Manga/Crows'' and ''Manga/{{Worst}}'' take place in the infamous Suzuran High. Bonus points for the extreme realism of the settings (not of the people, but hey, it's a shounen after all).

* All the high schools in Takahashi Hiroshi's works. Both ''TheCrows'' and ''{{Worst}}'' take place in the infamous Suzuran High. Bonus points for the extreme realism of the settings (not of the people, but hey, it's a shounen after all).

* The B-plot in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Eek, A Penis!" has Cartman temporarily teaching in place of Mr. Garrison, and his "class" gets high test scores thanks to Cartman giving them all the answers. He's then chosen to teach at an inner-city school, and teaches the kids how to cheat to pass their tests. They all ace a difficult exam, and students and teachers alike hail him as a hero. The B-plot is this a sort of WholePlotReference to ''Film/StandAndDeliver'' listed above.

* This trope was rather acidly parodied in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s this]] ''Series/MadTV'' sketch making fun of SaveOurStudents films. In it, a [[WhiteSaviour Nice White Lady]] inspires an inner-city school of troubled minority students.

* This trope was rather acidly parodied in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s this MadTV sketch]].

* Parodied in a ''Series/MadTV'' sketch where a [[WhiteSaviour Nice White Lady]] inspires an inner-city school of troubled minority students.

* ''TheGreatestAmericanHero''

* Seen as early as ''BlackboardJungle''.

* ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' has another aversion, taking place in an NYC public school that's as nice as every other part of the {{DCLAU}}.

* Parodied in ''Film/ClassAct''. The rundown inner city school is ''in the same building'' as the prestigious ElaborateUniversityHigh, seperated only by a door. BookWorm Duncan and the kid-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks Blade end up in each other's classes by mistake after their records get mixed up.

->'''School Bully''': Hey where's our regular teacher?
->'''Hammer''': He took an easier assignment.... as a janitor at Chernobyl.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' universe, the Thieves' Guild School is this, especially when used as a counterpoint to the upmarket and patrician Assassins' Guild school. If the AG School corresponds to an upscale British public boarding school, then the TG School is the downmarket inner city comprehensive ''{{Grange Hill}}''. See ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6093110/1/Clowning-is-a-Serious-Business Clowning is a Serious business]]'', which has a sub-theme of Education in Ankh-Morpork.

* ''Film/ThePrincipal''.

* ''CromartieHighSchool''.

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* OmegaTheUnknown has a rather extreme example where [[spoiler: one boy is beaten in a bathroom for tattling, eventually dying from his injuries]].

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* Tangerine Middle in ''{{Tangerine}}'', in [[{{Shadowland}} stark contrast]] to Lake Windsor Middle.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when Brian had to teach a group of very tough students, though this was in a remedial class in a suburban school as opposed to an InnerCitySchool. The tone remains the same, though, and the students fit the archetypes commonly seen in the InnerCitySchool depictions.'

** The [=WebTV=] group ''Website/CollegeHumor'' did a parody of the trailer for ''Film/DangerousMinds'', set in a school like this for wizards, with [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] as the teacher. [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5803618/dangerous-wands It is even better than it sounds!]]

* ''SaveTheLastDance'' takes place in one of these, with the heroine becoming the TokenMinority - and she's white.
* ''ClassOf1984'' and the sci-fi pseudo-sequels ''Class of 1999'' and ''Class of 1999 II''.

* ''HighSchoolHigh'' is a parody of films where a teacher tries to inspire inner city schoolkids.

* ''The Substitute'' and its sequels, which were chock full of MightyWhitey posturing and wholesale slaughter of [[EagleLand Mexican students]].

* ''ThePrincipal''.

* Tangerine Middle in {{Tangerine}}, in [[{{Shadowland}} stark contrast]] to Lake Windsor Middle.

* Another UK example; Hope Park [[TheGoodOldBritishComp Comprehensive]] in 1990s LennyHenry vehicle ''HopeAndGlory''. Henry plays a "superhead" of the kind that were [[RippedFromTheHeadlines in the UK news at the time]], trying to [[SaveOurStudents turn around]] a school where the sixth form centre was burnt down, and the former head (Creator/PeterDavison) turns his leaving speech into a rant about how worthless it all is.

* The B-plot in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Eek, A Penis!" has Cartman temporarily teaching in place of Mr. Garrison, and his "class" gets high test scores thanks to Cartman giving them all the answers. He's then chosen to teach at an inner-city school, and teaches the kids how to cheat to pass their tests. They all ace a difficult exam, and students and teachers alike hail him as a hero.