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Nevermore was established for people with special abilities,” Ortega adds. “But the main cliques are vampires, werewolves...” You know, the usual. Oh, Nevermore, how the students love you so. Netflix‘s Wednesday series gives the famous goth teen a new environment in her coming-of-age story. While getting expelled again from a normie school, her parents ship her off to Nevermore. The picturesque Nevermore Academy in Wednesday is a specially created school for outcasts with supernatural abilities. Led by Principal Weems, the school promises a “safe haven” for its students away from prejudice. Wednesday arriving at Nevermore Academy in ‘Wednesday’ | via Netflix Nevermore Academy was founded in 1791 by Nathaniel Faulkner Alongside those hints, there are quite a few other Easter eggs hidden in the walls and halls of Nevermore Academy. “We’ve sort of approached it from three points of view,” Scruton says. “There’s Tim Burton Easter eggs, there’s Addams Family Easter eggs and there’s clues to the mystery of the show.”

Nevermore Academy nurtures its students by helping them with their supernatural abilities, learning botany, and extracurriculars. The school also has well-known alumni like Gomez and Morticia Addams. They fell in love while students there and got caught up in a murder mystery. The famous Addams family franchise character, Cousin Itt, also attended. According to NME, Nevermore Academy may not be easy to get to for fans who wish to attend. While located in Jericho, the scenes of the gothic school were filmed in the Cantacuzino Castle in Bușteni, Romania. Open to the public; the castle was once the summer residence for the family of Prince Grigore Cantacuzino. Wednesday, to me, is the classic outsider,” executive producer and director Tim Burton says in the behind-the-scenes video above. “And part of the fun of the show was to create a school for outsiders at Nevermore.” Part of the school’s history of the Nightshades also included Wednesday’s ancestor Goody Addams, who founded the club to protect outcasts from bigotry. Principal Weems leads the school with her motto: “Nevermore is a safe haven for our students to learn and grow no matter who they are.” Where is Nevermore Academy located?

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The school’s production design reflects its unique student population. “In the courtyard, all the gargoyles are designed to represent the different groups within the schools,” production designer Mark Scruton tells Tudum. “So there’s vampires and gorgons and sirens. And other clues are built into that as well.” In Wednesday Episode 7, Uncle Fester reveals to his niece that Nathaniel Faulkner founded the school after spending years researching different kinds of monsters. The school has many unique traits and was named after Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven.” It also explains why Edgar Allen Poe is a previous alumni of the school and why his statue is the secret entrance to the Nightshades.