Academy

The Academy was an elite, four-year secondary school in the Capitol for the children of the wealthy and powerful.^[1]

Administration[]

Dean Casca Highbottom oversaw the school. The Academy provided students with free meals and uniforms for daily use, though they were required to finance their own clothing for special events.^[1]

Uniform[]

The Academy-issued uniform was not described in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes novel, but it was noted as including underwear and socks.^[1] In the film adaptation, uniforms consisted of a light blue dress shirt, a red jacket in a shade that Lucky Flickerman identified as "Academy rouge", and a golden pin of the Academy's logo. Regardless of gender, all students wore red skirts over their matching red trousers.^[2]

Concept art of Sejanus Plinth in his Academy uniform.

Official merchandise image of the Academy logo pin.

Academics[]

Subjects and staff[]

• Biology
  • High biology - restricted to senior students gifted in the science^[3]
  • Genetics^[4]
• Communications - Professor Satyria Click^[1]
• Gym class^[5] - Gymnasium mistress Agrippina Sickle^[1]
• History - Professor Crispus Demigloss^[6]
• Homeroom^[7]
• Rhetoric, including analyzing poetry^[8]
• School counselor Hippocrata Lunt^[8]

Academic standing[]

At graduation in midsummer, the Academy presented monetary prizes to high-performing students. Those students who performed well at the Academy often went on to attend higher education at the University.^[1]

Mentor program[]

During the 10th Hunger Games, the Academy's top 24 students were selected to mentor tributes from the twelve districts. This was used as a means to make citizens of the Capitol more interested in the Games.^[1] However, the program resulted in the deaths of four students, so it was discontinued once the Games concluded that year. The Head Gamemaker, Dr. Volumnia Gaul, considered it a catastrophic and embarrassing failure.^[9]

Disciplinary action[]

Students at the Academy who committed serious infractions might receive a demerit. Three such demerits would result in a student's expulsion.^[3] The Academy had a tradition of offering expelled students a lifeline. For Coriolanus Snow, this came in the form of an offer to join the Peacekeepers for a twenty-year-term, as an alternative to public disgrace.^[10] However, after being expelled, Snow received a diploma indicating he had graduated with high honors, which Sejanus Plinth made a condition of accepting his own offer to join the Peacekeepers after he was expelled as well. Having an Academy diploma allowed Snow to take the Peacekeeper officer test^[11] and later to enroll at the University after Dr. Gaul arranged for his honorable discharge from the Peacekeepers.^[9]

Campus[]

The Academy had a gathering area called Heavensbee Hall, which hosted events such as viewing the districts' reapings.^[1] The high biology lab hosted the mentors' meetings with Dr. Gaul,^[6] and there were at least fourteen other classrooms, since they were able to accommodate 14 different mentor-tribute pairs as they prepared for their interviews.^[12]

Known students[]

Trivia[]

• Classroom scenes were filmed in the Tieranatomisches Theater at Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany.
• The auditorium scenes were filmed in the Kuppelsaal (Dome Hall), where fencing events were held at Olympiapark Berlin.^[13]
• The Academy was also the setting of Academy Adventures, an officially licensed Roblox game created in order to promote the film.

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