# Fictional Schools on TV shows ONLY **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841 "2019-06-21T13:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/41 "2019-06-21T20:23:31Z")
Checking Wikipedia, I find that most of the animated Spider-Man shows have mentioned it. Don’t know the mascot. Chancellor Edward Gorman has been mentioned in the comics. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/42 "2019-06-21T20:54:34Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Santo Domingo HS…Flamingos…Grace Musso (_thumb swish_) - _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_ Also one of the few TV schools where the motto is known: _E Pluribus Flamingus_. Yeah, that makes sense.:dubious: (I don’t even know what the motto of my high school was, or if it had one.) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/43 "2019-06-21T21:07:07Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Also one of the few TV schools where the motto is known: _E Pluribus Flamingus_. > > Yeah, that makes sense.:dubious: > > (I don’t even know what the motto of my high school was, or if it had one.) “Out of many, Flamingo!” 🆒 When **PLCL** was on Fox, I saw an interview with Melanie (Principal Musso) Chartoff, where she said dozens of kids would stop her on the street and request she do the “Thumb Whoosh.” She was seriously considering getting one of those\*\* That Was Easy\*\* buttons and having it doctored to make the sound. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/44 "2019-06-21T21:39:14Z")
Millard Fillmore High School in Manhattan, from Head of the Class. Dr. Harold Samuels was the principal (had to look that up). The school in Kick Ass has the same name and location, but I don’t know if it’s supposed to be the same school or if it’s coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/45 "2019-06-21T22:29:50Z")
**DARIA** ,Lawndale High, Principal Ms Li, mascot a Lion. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/46 "2019-06-21T22:31:32Z")
California Institute of Science (Cal Sci)/Never specified/Never specified (NUMB3RS) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/47 "2019-06-21T23:36:28Z")
The _Brady Bunch_ kids attended Clinton Elementary, Fillmore Junior High, and Westdale High. I’m not sure if any principals were identified, but the Westdale mascot was the Bears (“One, two, tell me who are you? The Bears!..”) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/48 "2019-06-21T23:51:43Z")
On the MTV series Awkward., the characters attended Palos Hills High School, while on another MTV series called Faking It, they attended Hester High School. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/49 "2019-06-21T23:52:27Z")
Wagstaff School -Whalers-Principal Spoors- **Bob’s Burgers** ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/50 "2019-06-21T23:53:44Z")
The kids in The Wonder Years attended Robert F. Kennedy Junior High for the first few seasons. The Vice Principal was Mr. Diperna; I don’t think the actual principal was mentioned. I don’t recall if the mascot was identified; I imagine it must have at least appeared in the background in some scenes at least, though. I don’t remember the name of the high school Kevin went to in the later seasons. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/51 "2019-06-21T23:55:45Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Springfield Elementary - Puma\* - Seymour Skinner > > \*According to the Simpsons fandom wiki. I don’t think I’ve ever noticed it in the show. The Simpsons also has the infamous Springfield Heights Institute of Technology and the Springfield Elementary… My Dear Watson Detective School. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/52 "2019-06-21T23:57:59Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > On the MTV series Awkward., the characters attended Palos Hills High School, while on another MTV series called Faking It, they attended Hester High School. I cheated and looked it up but: Highland High School, ?, Principal McVicker - Beavis and Butthead ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/53 "2019-06-21T23:59:47Z")
On the UK series Skins, the characters attended Roundview College, a sixth-form school (meaning, I think, the equivalent of junior and senior year of high school in American terms). And on The Inbetweeners, the characters attended Rudge Park Comprehensive. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/54 "2019-06-22T00:26:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > On the UK series Skins, the characters attended Roundview College, a sixth-form school (meaning, I think, the equivalent of junior and senior year of high school in American terms). And on The Inbetweeners, the characters attended Rudge Park Comprehensive. Including UK TV programmes there’s obviously Grange Hill. A school… soap, is the best word for it, I guess. Lots gritty drama, occasionally humour, dealt with the issue of the day. It was called Grange Hill after an area on the outskirts of East London. It was geographical name. It annoyed me when they moved it to Liverpool so they could continue not having as many non-white people in it but kept the name. Mrs McClusky is the one I most remember from my youth. For mascots, Zammo might count. 😃 Eastenders also has Walford High and King Edward Secondary School. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/55 "2019-06-22T00:44:56Z")
There’s also Coal Hill School from Doctor Who and the short-lived spin-off called Class. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/56 "2019-06-22T03:15:24Z")
Two from a couple of my favorite cartoons from the early 2000’s: Third Street Elementary School, from _Recess_ X Middle School, from _Fillmore!_ (mascot: Lobstee the Lobster) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/57 "2019-06-22T03:27:00Z")
Maybe the first high school on TV: Central High School, Principal Nettleton. I don’t recall the team’s name but they sure got [Webster High’s goat](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58pjxn) in _The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/58 "2019-06-22T04:01:24Z")
More animated: Echo Creek Academy, [Awesome Possums](https://starvstheforcesofevil.fandom.com/wiki/School_Spirit), Principal Edwin Bonner-Skeeves (_Star vs the Forces of Evil_) Harry Herpson High School, The Harry Herpson Herpsons, Gene Vagina (_Rick and Morty_) Tom Landry Middle School, Longhorns, Carl Moss (_King of the Hill_) ---
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Whitney High School - _The Greatest American Hero_. Mascot and principal unknown. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841/60 "2019-06-22T17:14:46Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I just noticed; George Feeny was played by William Daniels (perhaps better known as the voice of the car in Knight Rider and the arrogant heart surgeon on St Elsewhere) but he starred on Broadway in the musical 1776 as John Adams. Presumably that’s how the school was named. Yeah, it’s kind of an Easter egg-oid bit of trivia. I learned about it here on the Dope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-schools-on-tv-shows-only/835841.md?page=4)