The Massachusetts Academy is a fictional prep school

University-preparatory school

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 in the Marvel Universe

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. Created by Chris Claremont

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 and Bob McLeod, it first appeared in Uncanny X-Men

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#151 (cover date November 1981).

Fictional history

Founded in the 18th century in the Berkshire Mountains of Snow Valley, Massachusetts, the Academy is one of the oldest and most respected college preparatory schools in the United States. Administered by Emma Frost

Emma Frost

Emma Grace Frost is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 , and was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne....

 for most of its modern history, the Massachusetts Academy also had a long-standing alliance with the Hellfire Club

Hellfire Club (comics)

The Hellfire Club is a fictional society within the Marvel Comics Universe that often comes into confrontation with the mutant superhero team, the X-Men...

. In addition to a large student body, the Academy also houses a clandestine school for young mutants

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. During her time as the Hellfire Club's White Queen, Frost trained a group known as the Hellions

Hellions (comics)

There have been several groups of fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe who have been known as the Hellions. These groups were rivals of various teams of younger mutant heroes in the X-Men franchise....

; the Hellions would become long-standing rivals with the New Mutants

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After the death of the Hellions, Frost temporarily retired from teaching and withdrew from the Hellfire Club. Reexamining her teaching methods, Frost would align herself with Professor Charles Xavier

Professor X

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 and the X-Men

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, and the Massachusetts Academy reopened as the new site of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Together with co-headmaster Sean Cassidy (Banshee)

Banshee (comics)

Banshee is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero who operates as a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Werner Roth, Banshee first appeared in X-Men #28 ....

, Frost would train a new class of young mutants, Generation X

Generation X (comics)

Generation X is a fictional comic book superhero team, a spin-off of the X-Men franchise published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Chris Bachalo, the team formed during the 1994 "Phalanx Covenant" storyline, and appeared in their own monthly series in September 1994...

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After a period of operating as a school exclusively for the training of mutants, the Massachusetts Academy would resume functioning as a broader educational facility.

Students

• Sharon Smith (Catseye)
  Catseye
  Catseye is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Catseye was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema in New Mutants #16-17 ....
  
  
• Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)
  Empath (comics)
  Empath , is a fictional mutant in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Empath was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema and first appeared in New Mutants #16-17 as a member of Emma Frost's original Hellions.The character subsequently appears in The Uncanny X-Men #193 , Firestar #2-4...
  
  
• Haroun ibn Sallah al-Rashid (Jetstream)
  Jetstream (comics)
  Jetstream is a fictional Moroccan mutant character that has appeared in various comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Created as a part of the group known as the Hellions, he exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe...
  
  
• James Proudstar (Warpath)
  Warpath (comics)
  James Proudstar, previously known as the second Thunderbird but also known as Warpath, is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men....
  
  
• Jennifer Stavros (Roulette)
  Roulette (Marvel Comics)
  Roulette is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Roulette was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema in New Mutants vol...
  
  
• Marie-Ange Colbert (Tarot)
  Tarot (comics)
  Tarot is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Tarot first appeared in New Mutants vol...
  
  
• Angelica Jones (Firestar)
  Firestar
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• Joyce Phelps
• Peggy Hastings
• Amara Aquilla (Magma)
  Magma (comics)
  Magma is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics series New Mutants, also associated with various X-Men-related comics. She was created by author Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, and debuted in New Mutants #8...
  
  
• Samuel Guthrie (Cannonball)
  Cannonball (comics)
  Cannonball is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero, associated with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Cannonball first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants ....
  
   - joined after Magneto took over as headmaster of the Xavier Institute.
• Illyana Rasputin (Magik)
  Magik (comics)
  Magik is a Marvel Comics character, associated with the X-Men. She is the younger sister of the Russian X-Man Colossus.-Publication history:...
  
   - joined after Magneto took over as headmaster of the Xavier Institute.
• Roberto da Costa (Sunspot)
  Sunspot (comics)
  Sunspot is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero most commonly associated with X-Men-related groups the New Mutants and X-Force....
  
   - joined after Magneto took over as headmaster of the Xavier Institute.
• Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane)
  Wolfsbane (comics)
  Wolfsbane is a Marvel Comics superheroine, associated with the X-Men.A Scottish mutant, Wolfsbane possesses the ability to transform into a wolf or into a transitional state somewhere between human and wolf...
  
   - joined after Magneto took over as headmaster of the Xavier Institute.
• Buford Wilson (Beef)
  Beef (comics)
  Beef is a fictional character from Marvel Comics, a mutant from the Hellions group created as the antithesis to the X-Men's junior team of mutants, the New Mutants.- Fictional character biography :...
  
   - Killed when he was launched through the window of a penthouse, crashing to the street below
• Fabian Marechal-Julbin (Bevatron)
  Bevatron (comics)
  Bevatron is a fictional character from Marvel Comics, a mutant from the Hellions group created as the antithesis to the X-Men's junior team of mutants, the New Mutants.-Fictional character biography:...
  
   - Drained of all his life energy by Trevor Fitzroy
• Hannah Blake - a human student at the academy before the arrival of the Hellions or Emma Frost, she was murdered and Husk met her ghost which still resided at the Academy.

Staff

• Emma Frost (White Queen)
  Emma Frost
  Emma Grace Frost is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 , and was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne....
  
   (Headmistress)
• Sean Cassidy (Banshee)
  Banshee (comics)
  Banshee is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero who operates as a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Werner Roth, Banshee first appeared in X-Men #28 ....
  
   (Headmaster)
• Adrienne Frost
  Adrienne Frost
  Adrienne Frost is a fictional character of the Marvel Universe, the older sister of Emma Frost and Cordelia Frost. Not much is known about her. She first appeared in Generation X #48 . The issue was scripted by Jay Faerber and drawn by Terry Dodson.-Early years:Adrienne was the first child born to...
  
   (Headmistress)
• Tom Corsi
  Tom Corsi
  Thomas "Tom" Corsi is a fictional character most often appearing in X-Men stories in Marvel Comics' shared universe, the Marvel Universe. Tom first appeared in New Mutants vol. 1 #19 and was created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz....
  
   (Physical Trainer)
• Nancy Cohen (Dance instructor)
• Piotr Rasputin (Colossus)
  Colossus (comics)
  Colossus is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer Len Wein and illustrator Dave Cockrum, he first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1...
  
   (Guest art teacher)
• Henry McCoy (Beast)
  Beast (comics)
  Beast , Dr. Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy, is a comic book character, a Marvel Comics superhero and a member of the mutant team of superheroes known as the X-Men...
  
   (Guest Physics teacher)
• James "Logan" Howlett (Wolverine)
  Wolverine (comics)
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   (Guest Physical Education Trainer)
• Bumpkin (driver)
• Hick (driver)
• Bruno Stein (Emma Frost's bodyguard)
• Randall Chase (Angelica Jones's bodyguard)

Students

• Jonothon Evan Starsmore (Chamber)
  Chamber (comics)
  Jonothon "Jono" Evan Starsmore, better known as Chamber or Decibel, is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men and the New Warriors....
  
  
• Paige Guthrie (Husk)
  Husk (comics)
  Husk is a fictional character from Marvel Comics. Guthrie is a superhero associated with the X-Men.A mutant, Husk has the ability to remove one layer of skin - or "husk" - revealing an epidermis of a different composition beneath...
  
  
• Jubilation Lee (Jubilee)
  Jubilee (comics)
  Jubilation "Jubilee" Lee is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superheroine associated with the X-Men.A mutant, Jubilee had the superhuman power to generate "fireworks" of explosive plasma. A teenage "mall rat," she was the X-Men's youngest member in the early 1990s, often playing sidekick to...
  
  
• M (Monet St. Croix)
  M (comics)
  M is a fictional comic book superheroine, a mutant who appears in the X-Men family of books published by Marvel Comics...
  
   - originally a merged Nicole & Claudette St. Croix
• Penance - originally Monet St. Croix, then Nicole & Claudette, later an empty shell.
• Angelo Espinoza (Skin)
  Skin (comics)
  Skin is a fictional mutant in the Marvel Universe of comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #317. -Fictional character biography:...
  
  
• Claudette St. Croix
• Nicole St. Croix
• Everett Thomas (Synch)
  Synch (comics)
  Synch is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics mutant superhero. Created by Scott Lobdell, he first appeared in X-Men #36, September, 1994.-Fictional character biography:...
  
  
• Franklin Richards
  Franklin Richards
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• Japeth (Maggott)
  Maggott
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• Leech
  Leech (comics)
  Leech is a character in the Marvel Comics Universe.Leech made his first appearance in Uncanny X-Men as a Morlock, a group of mutants whose deformities force them to live in the sewers under Manhattan. He is usually depicted as being around 12 years old...
  
  
• Artie Maddicks
  Artie Maddicks
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• Gaia
• Tristan Brawn - one of the human students that enrolled at the academy after Adrienne Frost changed it back to being a normal educational institute

Television

• The Massachusetts Academy is referenced by Wolverine in Wolverine and the X-Men, episode 3, when Emma shows up at the Institute. He describes it as a place that tried to imitate Xavier's, as the students bullied people instead of being taught to control their powers. Emma later closed her school due to the suffering her students endured at the hands of anti-mutant protestors. But she eventually missed teaching and decided to join the X-Men.