History Main / InnerCitySchool

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

* 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.

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

** Vincent B. Clortho Public School for Wizards in their sketch "Inner City Wizard School." Apparently, the school has the highest incidence of wizard-on-wizard violence in America, 1 out of 5 witches at the school is pregnant with a demon baby, and the Quidditch team is so under-equipped their players have to ride mops and Swiffers.

* Played with in ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi''. Tsujido High School, where the protagonists go, is full of gangs and delinquents, but it seems like most other schools shown in the series (except the all-girls private school) are similar. Within the school, the "problem students" are shoved into one class headed by a SadistTeacher. Ryuji and Eikichi's old school, Kyokuto High, is shown in the prequel ''Manga/BadCompany'' to be even worse, with pretty much every male student being part of a gang. In ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'', Holy Forest Academy is an aversion being an elite private school, though Class 3-4 specifically is full of problem students who have gone so far as to make the last two teachers attempt suicide.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'', inner city boys-only Kasugayama High School has this reputation, especially compared to the more prestigious co-ed and residential Seven Sisters High. Kasugayama's delinquent gangs are a significant plot element of Eikichi's recent history and character development in ''Innocent Sin''.

Schools based on those in RealLife, where the poorer students go, [[SuckySchool not to learn]], but to cut class, steal what isn't nailed down, vandalize what is, get it on in the restrooms, and do drugs all the time. Most of the teachers have [[DespairEventHorizon all just given up on doing any actual teaching]].

* The Italian film ''CiaoProfessore'' is basically ''Film/ToSirWithLove'' with little Italian kids.

TruthInTelevision to Latin American public schools which are more or less homogeneously disseminated throughout the city, either the outskirts, very near to decent residential areas, or in the heart of the city. No matter were you go, many public schools will fit this trope to a tee. Sometimes there are (often haphazardly worn) school uniforms thrown into the mix. That's why there exists somewhat affordable (for the middle class) private schools in LATAM run by religious congregations -- these schools are called "parroquiales". Also true in the US, as American public schools are funded by local taxes on property and the inner city tends to be poor. Higher-income parents tend to live in the {{suburbia}} outside the city's municipal boundaries and commute daily).

TruthInTelevision to Latin American public schools which are more or less homogeneously disseminated throughout the city, either the outskirts, very near to decent residential areas, or in the heart of the city. No matter were you go, many public schools will fit this trope to a tee. Sometimes though, there are (often haphazardly wore) school uniforms thrown into the mix. That's why there exists somewhat affordable (for the middle class) private schools in LATAM run by religious congregations -- these schools are called "parroquiales". Also true in the US, as American public schools are funded by local taxes on property and the inner city tends to be poor. Higher-income parents tend to live in the {{suburbia}} outside the city's municipal boundaries and commute daily).

* 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 ''Series/GrangeHill''. 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.

TruthInTelevision to Latin American public schools which are more or less homogeneously disseminated throughout the city, either the outskirts, very near to decent residential areas, or in the heart of the city. No matter were you go, many public schools will fit this trope to a tee, sometimes though there are (often haphazardly wore) school uniforms thrown into the mix. That's why there exists somewhat affordable (for the middle class) private schools in LATAM run by religious congregations -- these schools are called "parroquiales". Also true in the US, as American public schools are funded by local taxes on property and the inner city tends to be poor. Higher-income parents tend to live in the {{suburbia}} outside the city's municipal boundaries and commute daily).

TruthInTelevision to Latin American public schools which are more or less homogeneously disseminated throughout the city, either the outskirts, very near to decent residential areas, or in the heart of the city. No matter where most public schools fit this trope to a tee, but with (often haphazardly wore) school uniforms thrown into the mix. That's why there exists somewhat affordable (for the middle class) private schools in LATAM run by religious congregations -- these schools are called "parroquiales". Also true in the US, as American public schools are funded by local taxes on property and the inner city tends to be poor. Higher-income parents tend to live in the {{suburbia}} outside the city's municipal boundaries and commute daily).

The uniform of choice involves piercings, hair spray painted every color of the spectrum, leather jackets, and/or baggy jeans showing off students' colorful boxers.

TruthInTelevision to some extent in the US, as American public schools are funded by local taxes on property and the inner city tends to be poor (higher-income parents tend to live in [[{{Suburbia}} suburbs]] outside the city's municipal boundaries and commute daily).

* Every high school mentioned in ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' that is not Hekikuu (at least from the reader's point of view). Of course ''in'' the manga, Hekikuu High is the most feared of them all, with the devil Banchou, his invincible flunkies and all the yakuza fights around school.

* Springfield Elementary in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is usually a downplayed example, but it becomes a straight example in "The PTA Disbands!," in which Otto's bus is so poorly maintained that the floor crumbles out from under the kids' feet as the bus is moving, among other things. The school descends into anarchy when Ned Flanders becomes the new principal due to him, being the NiceGuy, just letting the kids do whatever they want.

TruthInTelevision to some extent in the US, as American public schools are funded by local taxes on property and the inner city tends to be poor (higher-income parents tend to live in suburbs outside the city's municipal boundaries and commute daily).

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%%* ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''.
* Every high school mentioned in ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' that is not Hekikuu (at least from the reader's point of view). Of course ''in'' the manga, Hekikuu High is the most feared of them all, with the devil Banchou, his invincible flunkies and all the yakuza fights around school.
* 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).

%%* ''Film/ToSirWithLove'' showed this trope applies across the pond.
* ''Film/SaveTheLastDance'' takes place in one of these, with the heroine becoming the TokenMinority - and she's white.

%%* ''Film/LeanOnMe''
%%* ''Film/StandAndDeliver''
%%* ''Film/HighSchoolHigh'' is a parody of films where a teacher tries to inspire inner city schoolkids.

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

* The Italian film ''CiaoProfessore'' is basically ''Film/ToSirWithLove'' with little Italian kids.
%%* ''Film/WildCats''

* The French movie ''Entre les murs'' (literally "Between the walls", English title is ''The Class'') is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by François Bégaudeau, a teacher in Paris who taught at one of these schools.
* Parodied in ''Film/ClassAct''. The rundown inner city school is ''in the same building'' as the prestigious ElaborateUniversityHigh, separated 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.
* A complex RealLife example in documentary ''Film/HoopDreams''. Inner-city Marshall High is shown as a big step down from St. Joseph, the hoity-toity private school that kicks Arthur out when his family can't pay tuition. However, the faculty at Marshall are shown to be dedicated and hard-working, and the implication is that they care about Arthur more than the folks at St. Joseph ever did.
%%* ''Film/UpTheDownStaircase''.
* ''Film/MusicOfTheHeart'' features Creator/MerylStreep as a violinist that becomes a music teacher in an inner city school in East Harlem.

* The school where Precious of ''Film/{{Push}}'' by Sapphire goes.
* Parker JuniorHigh in ''Literature/EthanSuspended''. Not played entirely straight in that, while it may have security cameras and uniforms instead of soap in the bathrooms and textbooks printed in recent decades, it's a fully-functioning school where actual learning takes place.

%%* ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero''
%%* ''Series/BostonPublic''
* Used in an episode of ''Series/WithoutATrace''.
%%* ''BronxZoo''.
* Fourth season of ''Series/TheWire'' that takes place at the MiddleSchool Randy, Dukie, and Michael attend and is particularly brutal and honest example of how they subconsciously prepare the kids for a life of dealing resulting in some of the series' biggest [[TearJerker tear jerkers]].
%%* Featured in two episodes of ''Series/ColdCase'', ''8:03 AM'' and especially ''True Calling''
* Another UK example; Hope Park [[TheGoodOldBritishComp Comprehensive]] in 1990s Creator/LennyHenry vehicle ''Series/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 Ur UK example is, of course, ''Series/GrangeHill'' which, although actually set in a more suburban area of North London, was a comprehensive school often struggling with funding, community relations, recruitment etc and also had many pupils from the sort of backgrounds and with the issues typical of this trope.
* This trope was rather acidly parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s this]] ''Series/MadTV'' sketch making fun of SaveOurStudents films. In it, a [[WhiteMansBurden Nice White Lady]] inspires an inner-city school of troubled minority students.
* Averted on ''Series/{{Glee}}''. Rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline is based at a public school in Akron, Ohio, which is a lot like {{UsefulNotes/Cleveland}} but not quite as affluent or classy. Nonetheless, the club has an ''exorbitant'' budget and has pulled stunts that you wouldn't expect from an inner city school in a DyingTown. This is because the Ohio on ''Glee'' [[InNameOnly has nothing]] [[TelevisionGeography in common]] with the real-life state.

* ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' has another aversion, taking place in an NYC public school that's as nice as every other part of the Franchise/DisneyChannelLiveActionUniverse.
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' has this in the form of a remedial English class in their otherwise normal high school. The class is constantly in chaos, the teacher is ''tied up and hung from the ceiling'', and a greaser in a leather jacket brings a vicious dog into the classroom, among other things. Drake's SadistTeacher threatens to send him there as a ''punishment''.
* ''Series/KeyAndPeele'':
** Vincent B. Clortho Public School for Wizards in their sketch "Inner City Wizard School." Apparently, the school has the highest incidence of wizard-on-wizard violence in America, 1 out of 5 witches at the school is pregnant with a demon baby, and the Qudditch team is so under-equipped their players have to ride mops and Swiffers.
** The Substitute Teacher sketch has a teacher ''from'' an inner city school sub in for a class of suburban white kids. When taking attendance, he mispronounces every student's name as a GhettoName (for instance, "Jacqueline" becomes "J-Kwellen"), since those are the kinds of names he's used to. He gets angry at the kids when they correct him and accuses ''them'' of mispronouncing their names as a prank against him, because [[YourNormalIsOurTaboo to him, their pronunciations sound completely ridiculous]] and thus he assumes they're making them up.

* ''Series/HeadOfTheClass'' is set in a New York City school but averts many of the trappings since it's about a small class of academically gifted students.
* In the ''Series/TheWayansBros'', brothers [[TheDanza Shawn and Marlon Williams]] as well as some of their friends are stated to have attended these when they were growing up, and other episodes like to poke fun as to what happens to pupils who were graduated from from there.
** In an episode where Shawn is mentoring an ex-con, Marlon says that a girl frequents the newsstands everyday on her way to work to buy a magazine from the ex-con. When Shawn says how that proves she's interested in him, Marlon responds, "''[[NWordPrivileges Negro,]]'' she can't read!"
** In an episode where Shawn hooks up Marlon with the friend of [[GirlOfTheWeek a girl he's dating]], Marlon is suspicious. After determining she has all her teeth, and doesn't wear a weave, he asks her to read something, when she does, Marlon is surprised that she's literate. The issue was that she has a young son.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Teacher's Aide", Miss Peters teaches English at an extremely tough inner city school where none of the students make even the slightest bit of effort and knife fights between rival gangs are common.

* 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 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 Kenny stealing all the answers from Garrison's desk. Cartman gets the credit and 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.

* Ishiyama High, the {{Delinquents}} school from ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}''.
* ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''.

* ''Film/ToSirWithLove'' showed this trope applies across the pond.

* ''Film/ClassOf1984'' and the sci-fi pseudo-sequels ''Class of 1999'' and ''Class of 1999 II''.
* ''Film/LeanOnMe''
* ''Film/StandAndDeliver''
* ''Film/HighSchoolHigh'' is a parody of films where a teacher tries to inspire inner city schoolkids.

* ''Film/WildCats''

* ''Film/UpTheDownStaircase''.

* ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero''
* ''Series/BostonPublic''

* ''BronxZoo''.

* Featured in two episodes of ''Series/ColdCase'', ''8:03 AM'' and especially ''True Calling''

* ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' features Vincent B. Clortho Public School for Wizards in their sketch "Inner City Wizard School." Apparently, the school has the highest incidence of wizard-on-wizard violence in America, 1 out of 5 witches at the school is pregnant with a demon baby, and the Qudditch team is so under-equipped their players have to ride mops and Swiffers.