This article is missing information about examples outside in fiction.(March 2024) |
An escalator school (エスカレーター学校, esukareitā gakkō)[1] (also esukareitā kō (エスカレーター校) and esukareita kō (エスカレータ校))[2] is an educational school that offers education from elementary or middle (or even from the kindergarten) until university. Escalator schools are so called because students usually rise to the next grade without having to take entrance exams. While many Western private schools are this way, escalator schools are far more prevalent in Japan and in the Philippines than in other countries.[3][4][5][6]
Escalator schools are commonly found in anime and manga, as they are a quick and easy explanation for having characters of very different ages in the same school-like setting realistically.