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Over the years, television has provided us with and endless array of fictional schools. Some of them are much cooler than real schools, in both architectural appeal and student body. Some of them lay on top of the entrance to Hell, so big vampire fights with really hot people take place in the hallways at night. Others, like Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series The Politician, are extremely wealthy bastions of privilege and ambition.

But what most schools on TV do have in common are lively student activities and intriguing plotlines because, as it turns out, scenes where kids actually sit in class and learn tend to be super-boring. Here, we ranked our 35 favorite fictional TV schools from worst to best, and factored in the apparent educational value, the people who go to them, what they look like, and other downsides or perks, such as windows, teachers, and parking lots.