Beata Academy



Beata Academy is an academy for gifted students, located in rural North Dakota. Its students range from age 13 to age 18, and must have a gift of some sort to be accepted. Beata is the only gifted academy in North America, and one of only several in the world. Despite the rarity of its kind, Beata does not accept adults, believing that gift mastery is easier achieved through adolescence. It's current Headmaster is Nathaniel Wright.

History
Beata Academy was founded originally by Edwin Rivers, a gifted man who had the ability to read minds, in 2012. After his family was traumatized in an incident involving his daughter, Rivers became obsessed with the idea of power suppression and absorption. In his efforts to absorb his daughter's gift, however, he managed to almost kill her, and tranquilize his wife into a brutal coma. In the peak of his obsession with gifts and power, with his wife in a coma and him slipping into insanity, he made a new plan, creating a school from his rural mansion, Beata Academy. The school was founded on a principle of gift mastery and triumph, and many children saw this as a chance to control something that may have been a burden to them prior.

After Rivers died, his wife took over. However, new students were not accepted following the death of the school's founder, and Beata Academy shut its doors. It did not open again until 2033, when former student Nathaniel Wright made an effort to bring the school back, valuing its potential and helpfulness to the gifted community. He founded it alongside the gifted village of Rosebury, and classes started once more. Unlike Rivers, Wright's version of the school promised a safer atmosphere, one of less rigidity and death. It retains access to The Island, however, an ethereal location that acts as a training ground for the most talented of students.

Houses
Though the first iteration of Beata did not feature these, the reopened version of the academy introduced a sort of faction system to their dormitories. New students are sorted into Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter houses. This is done using a personality test of sorts, making sure students are roomed with other students like them, and guaranteeing a beneficial relationship among the academy population. Each house is run by a different teacher.