Tokiwadai Middle School

Tokiwadai Middle School (常盤台中学) is a prestigious girls’ middle school. Of the currently named schools in Academy City, it is the one containing the most characters in the series.

Principles
It is one of the five most prestigious schools of Academy City and is said to be the most renowned girls’ school in the world. It is also mentioned that it had once sparked an international incident for refusing to admit a girl from a royal family because she wasn’t good enough. Tokiwadai teaches its students more than the average middle school and gives lectures on a university level, as they want their students to stand on the front lines of their field when they graduate.

Currently, Unabara Mitsuki's grandmother is the director/administrator of the school.

Student Demographics
The entry requirement is esper ability Level 3 or higher, and the school currently contains a total of around 180 students. Of the 180 students, there are currently 2 Level 5 espers, 47 Level 4 espers, 1 Level 2 esper, and the rest being Level 3 espers.

Uniform
The uniforms worn by all Tokiwadai students seen so far have been comprised of a short-sleeved white dress shirt worn under a light brown vest with the school emblem on the left side. For bottoms, the girls wear dark tan pocketed skirts that reach halfway down their thighs. There seems to be no uniform requirement for socks or shoes and other additions in between, such as Mikoto's shorts.

In Volume 12, it is mentioned like all other schools in Academy City Tokiwadai has a separate set of uniform for winter time as opposed to summer. It comprises of a tan buttoned jumper (a shade darker than the summer vest) and a checkered blue skirt with black and tan criss-crossing lines.

Tokiwadai Middle School's rules state that students are not allowed to wear casual clothes inside the school or in the dormitory as it is still part of the entire school. Even on days off, students are still required to wear their uniforms.

The marketing department of White Spring Holdings helped design Tokiwadai Middle School's uniform.

Campus
Tokiwadai is located in the Garden, an area inside Academy City consisting of Tokiwadai and four other girl's schools, with a shopping area dedicated to the rich young girls.

The school is fairly large, other than the main building which probably holds its classrooms and a library, it also holds a track and field area and also a large swimming pool (which is used by staff to measure Mikoto's power). The school also contains a showering area.

Tokiwadai has two dormitories, one of them is outside of the Garden and where Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko reside in, and the other one which is in the  Garden where Kongou Mitsuko takes residence.

Judgment 003 Branch Office
The school building has its own Judgment branch or room within the campus. Shirai Kuroko is a member and assists the office.

Returning Bath Facility
Returning Bath Facility (帰様の浴院) is one of the three bathing facilities to be found in Tokiwadai Middle School. It is a subsidiary of the school, and is used exclusively for students to clean themselves up.

Appearance
It is as large as five classrooms, and there are close to 90 showerheads. Each of them is separated by white partition boards and a sliding door. The doors aren't as big as the boards, which only hide the chest down to the thigh of an averaged sized middle school student from Tokiwadai.

In the anime adaptations, the shower room seems to be smaller due to perspective restrictions, showing only the shower partitions near to the wall. However, it serves the same purpose as it is in the novels. It has advanced shower controls, lockers, tables for glasses and drinks, cabinets for various bathing implements, as well as ornamental plants, and seats for students to sit on.

Activities
Other than the usual events the school participates in like the Daihaseisai. Tokiwadai seem to hold a Midsummer Festival which is held in the dormitory that is not in the Garden, here the students are to wear maid ensembles and have them welcome and serve guests, they give and invite the guests in demonstrations like flower arrangement, sewing, etc., and at the end of the festival someone from the festival is to give a performance. In the current year, Misaka Mikoto was voted to give the performance.

Clubs
Some of Tokiwadai's students also participate in club activities.

Known clubs in Tokiwadai include:

Factions
It is not known exactly how many factions there are in Tokiwadai, however, it is known that a Faction (派閥) is an organization that functions like a scholar club.

Factions are outlets for a group of students with similar goals to gather in school, to request for facilities and funding from the school’s board of directors, and to finally strike it big in a national event. Just by this definition alone, maybe a faction isn’t that much different from a school’s social club. Larger factions will get more contacts, funding, and inside information, so most of these outstanding students in their areas of specialties have a faction backing them; the more accomplished the faction is, the better the reputation the faction holds, which means that they have a higher influence and can gather greater power than other factions, even to the point where the strongest factions can have power and influence outside the school.

Shirai Kuroko pointed out that factions "protect" their own positions and thus if a powerful individual outside the school starts gathering members for some purpose, it's likely that a faction or several of them will try to hamper such act. The largest faction in Tokiwadai currently belongs to Shokuhou Misaki, who is even known as "the Queen of Tokiwadai". There is also an unwritten rule saying that students not in a clique cannot join a conflict between cliques.

At the start of Mikoto and Shokuhou's first year at Tokiwadai, the school was dominated by the three cliques, known as 'Tokiwadai's Big Three Cliques' (常盤台の三大派閥). In order of descending size, they were the Sha Clique (沙派閥) (23%), the Mikagami Clique (水鏡派閥) (19%), and the Hasekura Clique (支倉派閥) (17%). 16% of students belonged to the unnamed #4-#10 cliques and the others (25%) were unaffiliated.

The leader of the largest clique typically gets a nickname like "Queen" or "Empress". One coveted title, given to the leader of a clique that remains the largest for over a year and until her graduation, is Majesty. One who earns the title is said to be guaranteed a successful career, including a spot on the city's Board of Directors. At the time the two Level 5s entered the school, Sha Danshan was said to be closest to the title.

Four years prior to the main story, Takebayashi Yayoi led the largest clique and was the closest to the title, as per the wishes of her adopted family, but lost her right to it after her arrest for the attack on Tanrei Chemicals and erasure from the school's records.

Current Year
Known cliques/factions present in Tokiwadai in the current year include:

1 Year Ago
Known cliques/factions which were present in Tokiwadai 1 year ago include:

Background
Four years prior to the main story and three years before the admission of the Level 5s, the leader of the school's largest clique and the top Majesty candidate (with her adopted family desiring its alleged promise of a place on the Board of Directors), Takebayashi Yayoi, attacked Tanrei Chemicals after obtaining information that abducted members of her clique were being held captive there, resulting in her arrest and two deaths, with abductees eventually being rescued elsewhere. Tokiwadai's chair covered up the scandal and erased Yayoi's presence from the school's record, with the girl supposedly committing suicide in prison and her family being bankrupted.

Element Arc
On December 8th, Tokiwadai was heavily damaged by an attack by Kihara Yuiitsu and the Elements.

Kamisato Rescue Arc
On December 9th, Tokiwadai had been looted by individuals who took advantage of the damage to Garden, the exhausted and wounded students, and the immobilization of law enforcement in the aftermath of the Elements and the heat wave. With the school unusable, the students were moved to the 'Hospital' shelter at Heaven Canceller's Hospital.

Aleister Crowley Arc
On December 11th, repairs to Tokiwadai were underway, however the school structure had broken down and lessons were subsequently not taking place elsewhere.

Coronzon Arc
Following the evacuation of Academy City on December 12th, the students of Tokiwadai went to the Indonesian island of.

Kamijou Arc
Following Academy City's recovery, Tokiwadai students reunited with Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki at the airport in School District 23.

Christmas Eve Arc
At the night of Christmas Eve, Tokiwadai students were gathering up trash from the Academy City for outside special service work.

Students of 1 Year Ago

 * For the unnamed members of the top three cliques, see their respective pages: Sha Clique, Mikagami Clique, and Hasekura Clique.

Notable Staff

 * Tokiwadai Dorm Supervisor
 * Watanabe
 * Akazame
 * Coach
 * Music Teacher
 * Library Master: Apparently carries an astrology book around.

Trivia

 * The names of many clique leaders in the present time have characters of animals in them, except for Gaouin Tsukasa. Additionally, Iori, Inubushi, Tatsuki and Kamino uses the characters of Chinese zodiac signs.
 * Shokuhou Misaki is Bee (食蜂操祈).
 * Kokuchou Mayui is Butterfly (国蝶舞結).
 * Iori Mashiro is Boar (亥織真白).
 * Inubushi is Dog (戌伏).
 * Kumamori Tazuna is Bear (熊守手綱).
 * Tatsuki Mirei is Dragon (辰伎美麗).
 * Kamino is Snake (加巳野).

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