A magic wand factory is nothing without sorcerers to use it, so the owners of Wickerby, Driftwood, and Ember had long supported and cultivated magical education in Greenford. The current school building used for the elementary school, which dates back to 1855, was paid for by the firm and still bears their name. But after the war, peace terms dictated at the point of a bayonet meant that the school had to serve everyone in the county, not just those who were sorcerers. This led Wickerby, Driftwood, and Ember to break off and found their own private academy on the factory grounds. Magnolian Academy was born, and it graduated its first class of sorcerers in 1868. Endowed by the profits of the Wickerby, Driftwood, and Ember wandworks, it soon became a magnet school for well-to-do sorcerers who wanted their children to have the finest magical education available, and as a private institution it was exempt from the federal laws officially preventing discrimination against the nonmagical.

With a current enrollment of 1000 students, Magnolian is run as a traditional English-style boaring school, with students living on-site for two terms a year with summer and winter breaks in between. The students wear uniforms while in class, and are generally restricted to the grounds–for their own safety, as the factory is nearby.

While Magnolian was originally strictly male-only, this sort of admission standard was struck down in a court case mid-century, leading Magnolian to enroll its first young sorceresses in 1955, becoming completely co-educational. This led to its current official name, the Magnolian Academy for Young Sorcerers and Sorceresses.

The current headmaster is Cyrus Ember III, the great-great-great-grandnephew of the school’s original founder and one of the most talented and world-reknowned sorcerers of his age. A fierce proponent of high academic standards and of a prominent role for magically-inclined people in civil society, he maintains an international stature and is regarded by many as a hero. Obadiah Driftwood, the current foreman of the wand factory, also serves as a professor of magical fabrication, while Elijah Wickerby sits in his ancestor’s seat on the Board of Trustees.

Athletics are also a high priority at Magnolian, and its American Portalball team, the Magnolian Marauders, are a 12-time MSAA Division 1 champion. Many fans and alumni flock to the school for its home games every fall, which are not only open to the paying public but also regularly recorded for broadcast.

Yes, if you have magically inclined children and a desire to see them educated to the finest international magilaureate standards, Magnolian is the obvious choice.

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