Fictional History
Founded in the 18th century in Snow Valley, in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, the Academy is one of the oldest and most respected college preparatory schools in the United States. Administered by Emma Frost for most of its modern history, the Massachusetts Academy also had a long-standing alliance with the Hellfire Club. In addition to a large student body, the Academy also houses a clandestine school for young mutants. During her time as the Hellfire Club's White Queen, Frost trained a group known as the Hellions; the Hellions would become long-standing rivals with the New Mutants.
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 and the X-Men, and the Massachusetts Academy reopened as the new site of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Together with co-headmaster Sean Cassidy (Banshee), Frost would train a new class of young mutants, Generation X.
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, with new co-headmistress Adrienne Frost spearheading a focus on attracting human students from rich families in order to help with the school's financial problems. This would force the mutant students to conceal their powers, but despite this, anti-mutant tension escalated. Further conflicts were aided largely by Adrienne, who secretly plotted to destroy the school via bombing. The human students left the school shortly before the bombs detonated, and the resulting death of a mutant student led to a refocusing on the Academy's mutant training origins. However, the remaining students quickly grew dissatisfied, and the Academy closed with their departure.
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