History Main / SuperheroSchool

* The titular institute in ''TheUmbrellaAcademy'', though its seven students are never shown in a classroom or studying.

** However, the school is ''strictly neutral'' in regards to heroism / villainism -- it accepts any and all mutants, good, evil or neutral; powerful, weak, or [[CosmicHorror Class X]] and is protected and funded by the Whateley Charter: An agreement of several groups of heros/villains/"superneutrals" to provide a safe location for superpowered children to grow up at. The headmistress (a retired heroine of some renown) has had to remind several groups (especially the protagonists) of this fact repeatedly.
*** Due to that neutrality, anyone who attacks the school or threatens any of its students or their families will face the wrath of the entire mutant/super world.

* The ''HIVESeries'' focuses on a school for supervillains.

* Academy City in ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'' 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.

* The Death Weapon Meister Academy in ''SoulEater'' is a school where [[ShapeshifterWeapon shapeshifter weapons]] and those who wield them train to fight evil. Missions are part of their schoolwork
* One main setting for BokuNoHeroAcademia is the Hero Academy. This is where the main character learns to fight villains and train 'n stuff. It's really similar to the DWMA from SoulEater.

* Inverted by Catherine Jenks' ''Evil Genius'' series.

* ''[[http://specialschool.spiderforest.com/ Special School]]'' Which is actually a special class for super-powered students, but held in a normal school.

* One main setting for BokuNoHeroAcademia is the Hero Academy. This is where the main character learns to fight villains and train 'n stuff.

* ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight''.

* The WebOriginal fiction series [[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 [[Creator/HPLovecraft 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 scientsts how to make power armor and killer robots. Elective / specialist classes include Costume Shop, Intro to Flight, Psychic Ethics...

* ''AcademyOfSuperheroes'': ''Academy'' is the origin story of most of the ASH and STRAFE characters. It is set at the eponymous Academy of Superheroes.

* The web serial ''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.

* The Death Weapon Meister Academy in SoulEater is a school where [[ShapeshifterWeapon shapeshifter weapons]] and those who wield them train to fight evil. Missions are part of their schoolwork

* The ComicBook/PhantomLady became dean of Université Notre Dame des Ombres which is a french womans boarding superhero boarding school. Or possibly villains school. its a little unclear.

** Initiative's successor ComicBook/AvengersAcademy is a more traditional example, except [[spoiler:it's more about training kids so they ''wouldn't'' become supervillains]].

* ComicBook/PrideHigh has this as its core premise: a gay/straight alliance at a superhero high school.
* The French comic ComicBook/FreaksSqueele revolves around the students' life in a university for heroes, specialized in (pretty lame) bad guys and villains.

* ''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.

* 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.

* The HIVESeries focuses on a school for supervillains.
* Drearcliff Grange is a 1930s girls' school which takes "talented" students in Creator/KimNewman's Literature/DiogenesClub stories. 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.)
* The very straightforwardly title 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.
* The Estate in TheRook trains students to use their supernatural powers.

* {{Series/Heroes}} has Tracy setting up one of these in a graphic novel.

* ''Bad Guy High''

* WebComic/TheHeroesOfCrash were knockout gas and grappling hooks are considered school supplies

* FreedomCityPlayByPost maintains one of these, that continuity's version of the Claremont Academy mentioned above under ''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 SuperheroSchool 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.

* AcademyOfSuperheroes: ''Academy'' is the origin story of most of the ASH and STRAFE characters. It is set at the eponymous Academy of Superheroes.
* In ''Phaeton'' one of the buildings in the Orphanage doubles as this. Though the main characters do not generally go there.
* [[WebVideo/SuperAcademy Super Academy]] is, as the title suggests, centered around one of these.

* The TropeMaker is Professor Charles Xavier's school in ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}''. Depending on the continuity, Emma Frost's school, the [[GenerationX Massachusetts Academy]], may count as a supervillain school if she is Xavier's foe.
** In fact, the Xavier Academy jumped around a bit between being a SuperheroSchool, and a superhero base which happened to be disguised as a school, largely because, until Kitty Pryde joined the Creator/ChrisClaremont "all-new all-different" X-Men's ages ranged from the 20's onwards, with none of them even of college age. The films cemented the concept in people's minds by depicting the X-men as teachers of a large non-superhero student body, and the {{ComicBook}}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 "NewMutants.'' Its title changes a lot, though.
*** 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 Massachusets Academy for ''GenerationX''.

*** Meanwhile, the fallout of ''AvengersVsXMen'' has a rogue Cyclops, Emma Frost, and 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.

* ''PS238'' -- a superhero ''public'' school.

* the PhantomLady became dean of Université Notre Dame des Ombres which is a french womans boarding superhero boarding school. Or possibly villans school. its a little unclear.
* The manga-inspired French comic book ''SentaiSchool''.

* The comic ''NecessaryEvil'' has the eponymous Supervillan School. They've also implied the existence of a good counterpart.

* ''HeroCamp'' is sort of like this, but, you know, summer camp instead of an actual school.
* The Seminary in ''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 the DarkAge).

* PrideHigh has this as its core premise: a gay/straight alliance at a superhero high school.
* The French comic FreaksSqueele revolves around the students' life in a university for heroes, specialized in (pretty lame) bad guys and villains.
* ''{{Marvel 2099}}'' 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.
* ''Super School'' a comic strip which feature in the Britsh comic 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.

** In fact, the Xavier Academy jumped around a bit between being a SuperheroSchool, and a superhero base which happened to be disguised as a school, largely because, until Kitty Pryde joined the ChrisClaremont "all-new all-different" X-Men's ages ranged from the 20's onwards, with none of them even of college age. The films cemented the concept in people's minds by depicting the X-men as teachers of a large non-superhero student body, and the {{ComicBook}}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 "NewMutants.'' Its title changes a lot, though.

* The primary setting, Freedom City, for the TabletopRPG ''MutantsAndMasterminds'' has at least one of these. It was called the Claremont Academy as a blatant ShoutOut to writer X-Men ChrisClaremont.

*** Meanwhile, the fallout of ''AvengersVsXMen'' has a rogue Cyclops, Emma Frost, and Magneto running an underground "Xavier School", where new mutants are trained for an upcoming revolution.

* [[ShoutOut Shuster Academy]] from ''{{Sidekicks}}''.

* ''{{The 4400}}'' 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.

* Gladstone's School for World Conquerors by Mark Andrew Smith and Armand Villavert, published by Image Comics as periodical series in 2011 and later collected as a graphic novel. The title pretty much describes it, except the students slowly discover that the age-old rivalry between heroes and villains may not be exactly what it seems.

** Superhero School, an illustrated, colour chapter book for young readers by Aaron Reynolds and Andy Rash. 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 send 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.

* Disney's ''SkyHigh''.