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School role plays, such as high school, college or magical based schools, always seems to have a big fanbase in the role play community. They don’t suddenly become unpopular like some other types of role plays. This post is for admins who are thinking of creating a school role play but want to base it on a different setting or focus on another facet of education. While these ideas might be based on every day life, you could always incorporate them in another genre such as science fiction or fantasy.
*All school descriptions were taken from their respective Wikipedia page. The name of the school will link you to said Wikipedia page if you need more information.
- Vocational School: “A vocational school (or trade school or career school), providing vocational education, is a school in which students are taught the skills needed to perform a particular job.”
- Training Ship: “A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is especially used for ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and old hulks used to house classrooms.”
- Veterinary School: “A veterinary school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, which is involved in the education of veterinarians.”
- School of Infantry: “A School of Infantry provides training in weapons and infantry tactics to infantrymen of a nation’s military forces.”
- Nursing school: “A nursing school is a type of educational institution, or part thereof, providing education and training to become a fully qualified nurse.”
- Military academy: “A military academy or service academy (in American English) is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the army, the navy, air force or coast guard, which normally provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.”
- Film school: “A film school is any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking, including such subjects as film production, film theory, digital media production, and screenwriting. Film history courses and hands-on technical training are usually incorporated into most film school curricula.”
- Art School: “Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design.”
- Medical School: “A medical school is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians and surgeons.”
- Catholic School: ”Catholic schools are maintained parochial schools or education ministries of the Catholic Church.”
In addition, here are some more school ideas based on fictional schools. I found the links on this Wikipedia page and chose a few that some of you might think of including in your role play.
- Fictional High Schools: Degrassi Community School, East High -(High School Musical, High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year), McKinley High School (Freaks and Geeks), Mystic Falls High School (The Vampire Diaries), , Neptune High School (Veronica Mars), Newport Union High School (The O.C.), Rosewood High School (Pretty Little Liars), Rudge Park Comprehensive (The Inbetweeners), Shermer High School (The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), Sky High (Sky High), Tree Hill High School (One Tree Hill), Twin Peaks High School (Twin Peaks), West Beverly High School (Beverly Hills, 90210 and 90210)
- Fictional private schools and boarding schools: Beauxbatons Academy of Magic (Harry Potter series), Durmstrang Institute of Sorcery (Harry Potter series), Hailsham boarding school (Never Let Me Go (novel) by Kazuo Ishiguro), Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Harry Potter series), House Of Night (House of Night series by P.C.Cast and Kristin Cast), Smeltings (Harry Potter series), Spence Academy for Young Ladies (A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels by Libba Bray), Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (X-Men (formerly known as “Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters”))
- Fictional colleges and universities: Fear Tech (Monsters University) and Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (X-Men)
- Fictional military academies: Colonial Fleet Academy (Battlestar Gallactica), Imperial Academy (Star Wars) and Starfleet Academy (Star Trek)
Hopefully, this post will inspire you to keep creating school based role plays with a twist. Happy role playing and I hope you guys come up with great school role play ideas!
nikkihelps masterlist for plot ideas that are original and/or attention grabbing.
- I’m sure I’ll add more but currently there are 6 plots on this list.
- Requested by: anonymous.
