List of fictional military schools and academies

This is a list of fictional military schools and academies as portrayed in various novels, films, and TV series.

Novels

• St. Matthew' s Military Academy, in the novel Missing the Piano by Adam Rapp based on his experience at St. John's Northwestern Military Academy
• The Battle School and Command School in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game sci-fi novel series.
• Denmark Military Academy, located somewhere in Virginia from the young adult novel Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley ^[1]
• Fork Union Military Academy from The Diary of the Wimpy Kid
• North Shore Military Academy, a fictionalized version of Eastern Military Academy, appearing in the time travel adventure novel Time for Patriots
• The Royal Manticoran Naval Academy from the fictional Honorverse series of novels. Located on "Saganami Island", on the planet "Manticore," capitol world of the Star Kingdom of Manticore

Movies

• Bunker Hill Military Academy, from the film Taps. Filmed at Valley Forge Military Academy.
• The Carolina Military Institute (CMI), from Pat Conroy's book (and later, a movie) The Lords of Discipline, is based on The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), but the location used in the filming of the movie was Wellington College the United Kingdom. The "cadet drum-out" scene is similar to a traditional ceremony that was practiced at VMI. The same ceremony is now modified, most significantly without the disgraced Cadet present. The majority of the CMI specific terms/slang are from the Citadel lexicon, and institutions such as the CMI's Honor Court and "The Ten" are fictional portrayals of Cadet-run organizations at VMI.
• Davidson Military Academy, from the film Damien: Omen II. Some scenes were filmed at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy, a school once located on Lake Geneva in southeastern Wisconsin. Northwestern Military and Naval Academy was founded by Harlan Page Davidson, and was sometimes referred to as Davidson Military Academy.
• Kent Military School, from the film Child's Play 3 (1991). Filmed at Kemper Military School and College, Boonville, Missouri.
• Starkwell Military Academy, where Shia LaBeouf, Ronny Van Dusen character is sent to it at the end of the 2001 movie Hounded
• West Andover Military Academy, in the 1981 movie Evilspeak
• Winsocki Military Institute, founded by Rufus Reeber in 1943 movie Best Foot Forward
• Summit Crest Military Academy, Over the Top (1987)
• Buxley Academy, in the 1981 Disney movie The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
• Holyfield Military Academy, The Man Without a Face (1993)
• Pearson Military Academy, Junior Army (1942)
• Washington Military Academy, On Dress Parade (1939) Dead End Kids
• Weinberg Military Academy, Up the Academy (1980) filmed at St. John's Military School Salina, Kansas
• Ellwood Military Academy, Invitation to Happiness (1939)
• Kirkland Military School, in the tv movie Combat High later renamed Combat Academy (1986) Filmed at Kemper Military School and College, Boonville, Missouri.
• Pershing Military Academy, Blame It On the Night (1984)
• Urban Academy, High Gear (1933)
• Carlyle Academy, Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
• Colman Military Academy, Too Many Parents (1936)
• Calhoun Military Academy, Blondie Goes to College (1942)
• Southern Military College, The Strange One (1957)
• Sheridan Military Academy, in the movie The Private War of Major Benson (1955) filmed on St. Catherine's Military Academy campus, with cadets as the actors in all but the leading roles.
• Dover Military Academy, Little Rascals in the episode The Pigskin Plaooka (1937)

TV series

• Glendalough Military Academy, Rod Serlings Night Galleryin the Season 2 episode The Academy
• Remington Military Academy, on the episode Cadence in the series NCIS (2015)
• Fort Berk Military Academy, in King of the Hill, Cotton Hill's old military school, which Bobby attended for one episode.
• Haynes Military Academy, in one episode of Columbo.
• Hudson Military Institute is the school to which Tony and Carmela Soprano consider sending their son, AJ, after AJ is expelled from Verbum Dei (an all-boys Catholic high school) in the "Army of One" episode of The Sopranos. However, the Sopranos relent when AJ collapses from a panic attack, while being fitted for his military school uniform.
• Marlin Academy in Malcolm in the Middle, which Francis attended prior to his emancipation. Clearly based on the real life Marion Military Institute, also located in Alabama.
• Rommelwood Military Academy in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" episode of The Simpsons
• The Sentinel was Frank Underwood's alma matter in the TV Series House of Cards.
• Burton Military Academy, where Ricky Stratton character played by Ricky Schroder attends in the Pilot of the series Silver Spoons (1982)
• The U.S. Grant Military Academy in the TV mini-series Dress Gray as adapted by Gore Vidal from the novel of the same name written by Lucian Truscott IV. The location of the academy isn't easily discernible from the miniseries. The academy used as the filming location is the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, NM
• Presidio Alto Military Academy, in the episode Goodbye to All That of the series Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2009)
• St.George's Military Academy, on season 4 of The Killing (2014) filmed Hatley Park and Royal Roads University in Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC
• Prussian Valley Military Academy, WKRP In Cincinnati Young Master Carlson (1979)
• West Valley Military Academy, I the episode Reign Fall of NCIS LosAngeles
• Winston Cadet Academy for Boys, in the episode K.C.'s the Man of Disney K.C. Undercover (2015)

Others

• Lanseal Academy from Valkyria Chronicles II (Game).
• Starfleet Academy, located in San Francisco, California in the fictional Star Trek universe.
• Oorai Girls High School and other competing academies in Girls und Panzer. The students in each school learn Sensha-dō (戦車道?, lit. "Way of the Tank"), the art of operating tanks, as a traditional martial art. The schools are floating cities that are constantly moving around the world to compete with other schools using World War II-era vehicles.
• Interplanetary Combatives Training ("N-School", "the villa"), in Vila Militar, Rio de Janeiro, in the Mass Effect series, provides training to the Systems Alliance special forces (vocational codes N1 through N7). The protagonist, Commander Shepard, is an N7.
• Bradley Military Academy of Altadena, California, USA. School attended by cadet "R.C. Collins," a recurring character on the syndicated comedy talk radio program, The Phil Hendrie Show.

References

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18285437-rites-of-passage