New Mushroomton High School is a building located in the 2020 Disney•Pixar animated feature film, Onward. It is the high school where Ian goes to.
Background[]
New Mushroomton High School is the place Ian attends. The school's mascot is an anthropomorphic cartoony dragon, along with its slogan "Go Dragons!".
Role in the film[]
After Ian's conversation with Gaxton was successful, he sets out to go to school. Arriving at class, Ian tells his classmate Gorgamon, a troll, to not put his feet on his chair to which he denies that the reason why he is doing it is to keep him concentrated properly. Ian decides to become courteous of him. However, after leaving class ends, Ian rides a taxi teaching students how to drive while Ian's driving instructor, a gremlin, to which he has trouble concentrating on the freeway. Back at school, Ian sheepishly tells his classmates to join him for his party at his house to which his conversation with his colleagues was not successful due to Barley interrupting while Ian bids his colleagues a farewell just as Barley takes Ian home.
Ian and Barley later end up at New Mushroomton again in the high school area in an attempt to find the Phoenix Gem where Ian is frustrated with Barley that they couldn't find one. Barley manages to find the Phoenix Gem at the fountain he tried to protect from a construction site by using a flower-shaped piece from one of the raven statues at Raven's Point. Obtaining the gem, a curse is unleashed across New Mushroomton, taking pieces from New Mushroomton High School to form a massive artificial dragon. Ian, Barley, Laurel, and Corey were able to defeat the dragon and break the curse once and for all. Later when magic is brought to the land of mythical creatures, Ian tells his class about what he did to repair the school after pieces of it were taken by the curse to which Ian's colleagues are excited about the lesson he taught them.
Known Classes[]
- Alchemy[1]
- Geography
- Geography 110
- Journalism[1]
- Realm History[1] (also known as History of the Realm)
- History of the Realm 101
- Science
Known Staff and Students[]
Staff[]
- Principal Pipplemell (female gnome)[1]
- Mr. Gnash (night janitor, male troll)
- Mrs. Nightdale (Journalism)[1]
- Unnamed Geography teacher (female cyclops)
- Unnamed History teacher (female elf)
Students[]
- Althea (female cyclops)[1]
- Barley Lightfoot
- Gorgamon (male troll)
- Gurge (male troll)[1]
- Ian Lightfoot
- Kagar (male satyr)[1]
- Parthenope (female satyr)[1]
- Sadalia Brushthorn (female elf)[1]
Known Extracurriculars[]
Clubs[]
- Chess Club
- Friends of the Unicorn Club[1]
- Science Club
Other[]
- The Fortnightly Dragon: The school newspaper, considered biweekly but really published three times a week. Sadalia is one of its reporters.[1]
- Theater: A class and/or club that puts on theatrical performances. One of its upcoming plays is The Minotaur Cometh. Sadalia's friend Althea is a member.[1]
Trivia[]
- Like many buildings in New Mushroomton, the school's interior and exterior architecture feature castle motifs.
- While Merpeople and Centaurs are shown to live in New Mushroomton, none are shown to attend this school with the rest of the city's races.
- The school is located just across a street from New Mushroomton Park, where the historic fountain containing the Phoenix Gem is located.
- Both the school and the park are very near cliffs that overlook the ocean to the west.