Fan Casting Sucky School in Sort by Tropes

Some schools are grand centres of learning, home to dedicated, enthusiastic teachers, state-of-the-art facilities, and a reputation for giving pupils the best possible education. And then there are schools like these. Maybe it's located on the Wrong Side of the Tracks. Maybe funding has been cut to the bone. Maybe it's run by a miserly head teacher who hates his job and takes it out on everybody else. But for whatever reason, attending this school sucks. Teachers will be cruel, frustrated or uncaring if not outright villainous, and the school building will be an unsafe, ugly concrete wreck (but that won't stop the janitor yelling at you for messing up his "clean" floors), while textbooks and other equipment will be several decades out of date and/or of questionable quality. Bullies will always be lurking around the corner to steal your lunch money, give you a wedgie and shove you into a locker, or much worse. School lunches consist of inedible slop prepared by staff who'd have to look up the word "hygiene" in a dictionary. The sports team, if there is one, will be full of arrogant Jerk Jocks eager to throw their weight around, always accompanied by catty cheerleaders on a mission to make any female characters outside of their clique miserable. The trope is often used to satirize or dramatize how horrible the public school system is (especially if this trope is used in an American work, as parents and adults worrying over the quality of children's education is a major issue). Junior High in particular is a common target of derision, leading to the idea that Middle School Is Miserable. And if you're really unlucky, it might also be an Assimilation Academy.