- Basic Trope: A primary or secondary school where students live, in addition to attending classes.
- Straight: The students at Tropeland High School live in dorms on campus.
- Exaggerated: Even the teachers and other staff live on campus, in their own dorms, with their spouses.
- The school is an Elaborate University High, with many different buildings and amenities to students, including a fitness center, swimming pool, an art building (with its own gallery), a health center with access to state-of-the-art medical equipment and doctors (as opposed to just one nurse) 24 hours a day, a bowling alley, and several different cafes.
- Downplayed: Some students live in dorms at Tropeland, but some do not.
- Justified: Truth in Television.
- Inverted: Wikistan High School is an online school, where students attend classes from their homes.
- Subverted:
- Although other students live on campus, Alice commutes.
- Tropeland is a college or university, not a High School, and therefore it's expected that most (if not all) students will live on campus.
- Tropeland phases out its boarding system and fully becomes a day school.
- Double Subverted:
- Only because her parents cannot afford the fees charged by Tropeland High to live on campus. Alice is only there because she was part of the Gifted and Talented program in Junior High, and received a full scholarship to pay for tuition and only tuitionnote .
- Or alternatively, it's only a community college; most of the students are part-time.
- It's an Elevator School.
- Parodied:
- Tropeland is a heavy-handed parody of Hogwarts
- You enter the school by gangplank.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Tropeland High is a day school.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice's father remarries another woman, who puts Alice in boarding school to get her out of plain sight.
- Exploited: An institution presents itself as one of these, or as a rehabilitation center for Delinquents or "troubled youth," but it's a Boarding School of Horrors, or a cover for a child trafficking ring.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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