History Main / SuperheroSchool

** ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'' program is somewhat like this, but blurs the line heavily between "school" and "boot camp." Not many other examples listed here take young teens and put sniper rifles in their hands...

--> ''"In real life, we supervillains play for keeps. One of the reasons why there [have been] so many short-lived superheroes was that they were literally '''short-lived'''."''

* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' has The Hero Academy where young NEXT (what the series calls individuals who develop superpowers) can learn how to use their abilities and become {{Corporate Sponsored Super Hero}}es. Although notably attending is not a mandatory requirement to becoming a hero, and of the two title characters, only one is a graduate. It's implied the academy wasn't even around yet when the other title character first started in the hero business. Also many of the students have abilities that are more in line with BlessedWithSuck or would not be flashy enough to pique the interest of a sponsor company.

* The main setting for ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' is U.A. High School, which is considered the best superhero school in Japan. Main character Izuku Midoriya goes here to learn to become a professional hero alongside his classmates. While the school is mainly known for its Hero department, it also has other departments for General Education (for students whose abilities aren't considered fitting enough to be heroes or those who are aiming for different careers), Support (for students who are learning to develop gadgets and equipment for heroes to use on the battlefield), and Management (for students who are aiming for work in the business side of heroes, like managing hero agencies, executive producing heroes, and even venture capitalism).

** Professor Charles Xavier's school is the Trope Maker.

* Academy City in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' 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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has Camp Whispering Rock, a summer camp for kids with PsychicPowers that functions similarly to this trope.

* 'Webcomic/AutobotAcademy'': The titular Autobot Academy and most of the other schools train their students how to be heroes and help them master their talents so they can be used to help others.

* Inverted by Catherine Jenks' ''Literature/EvilGenius'' series.

* Kitty Burrows' ''Literature/ThePosterchildren'' deals with a large group of characters connected to a school for mutants. The main book focuses on a group of students, but there are also stories focusing on parents, alumni, teachers, and people with even more tenuous connections. Wonderful if you prefer character and relationship driven stories over action.

This is Superhero School, where young superhumans go to learn about their powers and how to use them for good. A subtrope of ExtranormalInstitute, where it's often not the place that's unusual, but the students. And sometimes the faculty.

* In the WebComic ''Webcomic/EvilInc.'', the eponymous corporation of supervillains started with an evil daycare center for employees' kids, and has recently moved up to an evil education program.
* ''WebComic/TheHeroesOfCrash'', where knockout gas and grappling hooks are considered school supplies.

* ''WebComic/SpecialSchool'' Which is actually a special class for super-powered students, but held in a normal school.

* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' is set in a superhero themed high school. Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}} have long since graduated however a large number of DC heroes -- such as Franchise/WonderWoman, ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', ''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'' -- currently attend it. Traditional villains, such as Harley Queen, Poison Ivy, and Cheetah, also attend it as heroes.

* The ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Academy in later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan: Web Warriors''.

** In fact, the Xavier Academy jumped around a bit between being a Superhero School, and a superhero base which happened to be disguised as a school, largely because, until Comicbook/KittyPryde joined the Creator/ChrisClaremont "all-new all-different" X-Men's ages ranged from the 20s onwards, with none of them even of college age. In the ''ComicBook/NewMutants'', Xavier's school functions as both a superhero school, and a base, with even some of the X-Men helping to train the New Mutants. The [[Film/XMenFilmSeries films]] cemented the concept in people's minds by depicting the X-Men as teachers of a large non-superhero student body, and the {{Comic Book}}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 ''ComicBook/NewMutants''. Its title changes a lot, though.

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

* In ''Webcomic/{{Pulse}}'' a city is built in the Great Lakes near Michigan to hide a underground Government complex meant to train superhumans.

* Liberty Vocational, in Naomi Novik's ''ComicBook/WillSupervillainsBeOnTheFinal'' series, offers classes ranging from designing costumes to discussing the ethics of superhero-dom.

* The school that the main four characters go to in ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernormal}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeroElementary'' is about an elementary school where kids learn to be superheroes. Like in the original DC Superhero Girls, there are no secret identities. It's based on a book called ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Super Hero School]]'' by Aaron Reynolds.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' is a variant. Feature a school for superhero's sidekick.

This is SuperheroSchool, where young superhumans go to learn about their powers and how to use them for good. A subtrope of ExtranormalInstitute, where it's often not the place that's unusual, but the students. And sometimes the faculty.

** 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 Comicbook/KittyPryde joined the Creator/ChrisClaremont "all-new all-different" X-Men's ages ranged from the 20s onwards, with none of them even of college age. The [[Film/XMenFilmSeries films]] cemented the concept in people's minds by depicting the X-Men as teachers of a large non-superhero student body, and the {{Comic Book}}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 ''ComicBook/NewMutants''. Its title changes a lot, though.

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

* The Xavier Institute also features in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' in its role as a SuperheroSchool; however, the X-Men also attend regular school at Bayville High. How the kids going to ''two'' schools is explained to parents and such who don't know what Xavier's really is is never addressed. For the first two seasons it's the usual high school antics complicated by keeping their powers a secret while season three focuses on what happens when the {{Masquerade}} breaks and the other students find out their secret.

->'''Colonel Stryker:''' We've managed to gather evidence of a mutant training facility in the Salem region of upstate New York:\\

->''"Welcome to Mutant High."''
-->-- '''[[ComicBook/{{Iceman}} Bobby]] to ComicBook/{{Rogue}}''', ''Film/XMen''

** Note also that the world at large is predominantly CapePunk, and even on campus, RealityEnsues with fearsome frequency. Graduates who go into either the hero or villain biz - or even those who [[IJustWantToBeNormal just try to live an ordinary life]] - often ''really, really'' '''''need''''' what they learn at Whateley, and even then, it may not be enough.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeroElementary'' is about an elementary school where kids learn to be superheroes. Like in the original DC Superhero Girls, there are no secret identities.

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* The main setting for ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' is U.A. High School, which is considered the best superhero school in Japan. Main character Izuku Midoriya goes here to learn to become a professional hero alongside his classmates. While the school is mainly known for its Hero department, it also has other departments for General Education (for students whose abilities aren't considered fitting enough to be heroes or those who are aiming for different careers), Support (for students who are learning to develop gadgets and equipment for heroes to use on the battlefield) and Management (for students who are aiming for work in the business side of heroes, like managing hero agencies, executive producing heroes, and even venture capitalism).

* ''Manga/TalentlessNana'' is set in a specialized school to train "Talented"/superpowered individuals to fight against a vaguely defined "Enemy of Humanity". [[spoiler:In truth, the "Talented" individuals ''are'' the "Enemy of Humanity"--or, at least, that's how the rest of the world views them; the academy is a government program intended to gather and isolate these dangerous individuals and eliminate them while they're unaware.]]

* In the ''Our Own League'' fan novels, the ComicBook/TeenTitans are emphasized as a semiofficial school for underaged superheroes rather than just sidekicks striking out on their own. There are actual classes (homework and all,) with the team's founding members (Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, Arsenal and Tempest,) as part-time instructors.

* Peter from ''Film/EpicMovie'' went to Mutant Academy of Arts and Sciences where he gets bullied by parodies of the ''Franchise/XMen'' characters.
* ''Film/SuperheroMovie'' also parodies ''X-Men'' with Xavier's School for the Non-Asian Gifted which has children who can walk through walls and children who think they can walk through walls.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The premise of the first three seasons is about the main characters going to Beacon Academy. They learn about being huntsmen and using their semblances.

* ''WebOriginal/{{RWBY}}'': The premise of the first three seasons is about the main characters going to Beacon Academy. They learn about being huntsmen and using their semblances.

* ''WebOriginal/RWBY'' The premise of the first three seasons is about the main characters going to Beacon Academy. They learn about being huntsmen and using their semblances.