Polaris College School

-WIP until further notice

Find your way and strive beyond the stars -Polaris Motto

Polaris College School is an academy designed to train Hunters and Huntresses. However, it also doubles as a school for continuing education.

Overview

Polaris takes the form of a floating artificial island akin to the floating city concept, close to the seabound borders surrounding Mistral. It is currently located in the Kingdom of Mistral. 

Background

Polaris was an ordinary school, from the moment of its inception. However, decades of scandal, power abuse, corrupt bureaucracy, and the poor teaching quality, both inside and outside the classroom, plagued the school. The students were suffering from dropouts, among disciplianary and academic troubles. But then, a group of graduates from Beacon Academy saw this, and decided to employ themselves at the school, believing it necessary to reform it, exploiting the school for its full potential. After a few years of a teaching degree, the Beacon graduates were accepted as employees out of sheer desparation, after periods of neglect in the Mistral society, including their local Council (in favor of Sanctum and Haven). Within a decade, the school had risen from the ashes of decadence thanks to new, unorthodox reform methods, with graduation rates increasing and reports of academic misconduct decreasing. Thanks to a wealthy sponsor, the school expanded, providing greater resources for students. The Hunting program, which existed before the decade-long reform, was being improved to the point where it was approaching par level with combat schools such as Signal and Sanctum Academies. However, a decade isn't enough time to turn a school once lagging behind in Mistral's education standards, and the current dean, wishes for it to constantly improve over time, hoping to someday be on par level with advanced Hunting Academies such as the prestigious Beacon Academy, or the rivalling Haven Academy, as a bare minimum.  

Dress Code

Polaris offers a wide variety of customizable uniforms, all pertaining to its star logo and its color scheme of blue, white, and black. The following sets of clothes are divided into several categories, as follows:

All:

• White Dress Shirt with the Polaris logo
• Dress Shoes in black, white or blue colors
• Dress socks in black, white or blue colors

Men's uniform exclusive options:

• Long sleeved V-necked sweater in blue, white, or black colors and Polaris logo
• Long sleeved, collar zipped sweater in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo (zips only at the collar)

Women's uniform exclusive options:

• Thigh-heeled boots 1 inch boots in black, white or blue colors and Polaris logo
• Thigh-heeled Senior boots 2 boots in black, white or blue colors and Polaris logo
• Long sleeved, side button polyester blazer in blue, white or black colors with Polaris logo

Unisex uniform options:

• Dress pants in black, white or blue colors and Polaris logo
• Black, white and blue striped kilt at knee length
• Black polo shirt with Polaris logo and blue/white striped collar
• Blue polo shirt with Polaris logo and white/black striped collar
• White polo shirt with Polaris logo and blue/black striped collar
• Cardigan in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo
• Sweater vest in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo
• Striped tie in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo
• Polyester, two-button blazer in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo
• Striped Senior tie in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo
• Waistcoat in blue, black or white colors and Polaris logo
• Double-breasted overcoat in blue, black or white colors and Polaris logo

Sports uniform:

• T-Shirt in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo
• Gym shorts in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo

Spiritwear:

• Baseball jacket in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo
• Pullover hoodie in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo
• Zippered hoodie in blue, white or black colors and Polaris logo

Curriculum

Hunter Program The Hunter Program is designed to teach students on how to be the Huntsmen and Huntresses of tomorrow. The curriculum is slightly stricter than similar schools, requiring not only the standard courses of Hunter Academies, but also several civilian subjects as a means of insurance should being a Hunter prove unsuitable.

In terms of difficulty and quality of education, Polaris' Hunter program is at least superior to combat schools such as Signal and Sanctum Academies, but is inferior to Hunter Academies such as Beacon and Haven.

Staff

Leon Richards (Dean)

Sal M. Aladdin (Vice-Principal)

Robin Daniels-Kreutznauer (Professor)

Notes

I knew that the requirement for a fanmade school cannot be on Beacon level. I realized that many schools were portrayed as top-tier. Yet I designed Polaris to portray a school that improves from being onto a level of an low-income, inner city school, to a level aiming towards top-tier academies like Beacon, similar to how a character improves. The trick is that while the school is quite wealthy, the teaching quality leaves much to be desired.

Trivia

• Polaris is named after the North Star, used to guide and direct travelers in the night. It keeps up with Beacon and Signal's light motif. It also creates a possible star motif for my fanmade schools.

• Polaris is called a College School, to avoid being called an Academy like many, many other academies in media.

• Polaris is a combination of middle school, high school, university/college, and a Hunting Academy. I wanted to draw inspiration not only from Beacon, but from real -life high schools and universities/colleges.