The Academy of Saint Philomena
Location: Poughkeepsie, New York
Founded: 1791
Faculty: 400
Students: 1200, grades 9 to 12
Student to Teacher Ratio: 3:1
Colors: Purple and Green
Motto: Rectam aculeosÂ
This private boarding school is not where They train the nation’s mundane elite; nor is where they train the next generation of Illuminati wonder-workers. To the dismay of new students, there are no mystic portals or labs full of ultra-tech gadgetry at the Academy of Saint Philomena (a resolutely secular institution, despite the name). The students there take no classes on wizardry or theurgy or Mad Science or any of the rest of the dangerous, but often useful, incongruities currently being kept from the Masses. No, St. Phillie is where students learn how to keep the people with those incongruities firmly in check.