Storybrooke Schools

"After a stint behind bars, how tough can a room full of fourth graders be?"

- Mary Margaret Blanchard

The Storybrooke Schools are Storybrooke locations featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They first appear in the first episode of the first season.

The Storybrooke Schools consist of the Storybrooke Elementary School and the Storybrooke Secondary School.

Trivia
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On-Screen Notes

 * The administration of the school e-mails students their class schedule.


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Production Notes

 * The scene with Mary Margaret teaching in the school was the first ever to be filmed for the show.


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Disney

 * There are giant sea shells in Mary Margaret's classroom, which is a reference to The Little Mermaid.

Popular Culture

 * Funk & Wagnalls Wildlife Encyclopedia 6 is sitting on a shelf in Mary Margaret's classroom, next to other volumes of the book series.


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Props Notes

 * When Mary Margaret is teaching, she receives not an apple from her student, but a pear. This is fitting as she was poisoned by an apple.
 * The top header on one edition of the Storybrooke Daily Mirror says "Comet Marley Makes Debut Appearance". Fittingly enough, the lesson plan on the chalkboard in Mary Margaret's classroom that day mentions comets, and other astronomical objects.

Set Dressing

 * There's a picture of Ginnifer Goodwin's sister in the school. It can be spotted behind Mary Margaret as she apologizes to Emma when she first meets her in Storybrooke.
 * Like many other Storybrooke locations, the school contains nods to the Enchanted Forest: One of the school classrooms has tree silhouettes and falling leaves on the windows.
 * The Flag of Maine is in one of Mary Margaret's classrooms.
 * When Mary Margaret is pretending to be in a hurry to get to school in time, she says she's making a volcano with her students. The volcano is present in her classroom in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".
 * When Kathryn confronts Mary Margaret, a banner in the school hallway says, "Storybrooke School Art Fair".
 * During Miner's Day, the walls of the school classroom used as the volunteer center, are adorned with illustrations of stars and constellations, which is a nod to Astrid and Mother Superior's counterparts in the Enchanted Forest.
 * In Mary Margaret's apartment, there are framed photographs of herself with her students.
 * An amethyst is sitting on classroom table. Amethysts are believed to help people who suffer from a faulty memory.
 * The rocks Ingrid uses to steal and return people's memories in "Smash the Mirror" and "Shattered Sight" are also amethysts.


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Filming Locations

 * Kerrisdale Elementary School in Vancouver doubles as the Storybrooke Elementary School for both exterior and interior scenes.
 * This location was also used in the filming of the slasher movie Freddy vs. Jason.
 * For the episode "Welcome to Storybrooke", the scenes where Mary Margaret gives the exact same lesson at school, again and again, day after day, is a mixture of archive footage from "Pilot", and new footage filmed inside a studio, since the location was not available for for this episode.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.