Hollow Fields (School)

''In Hollow Fields, the school itself is the most omnipresent character in the series. It had to be imbued with its own character that set it apart from just being a regular environment in a school-based manga. There's a lot of steam-power and clockwork within its walls, and many of the building exteriors look as if they have been salvaged from different time periods.''"- Hollow Fields School Files, Vol. 1"The story is set in Miss Weaver's Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered, though it is usually called Hollow Fields. The mysteries of the school itself and its strange staff are things Lucy Snow is trying to piece together as she also finds a way to escape it alongside fellow students like Claude McGinty.

Operations
The school uniform is a yellow-white collared shirt and red tie with a black v-neck sweater over it. Male students wear black trousers while female students wear black pleated skirts. Socks and shoes along with any other accessories are up to the discretion of the student.

The primary entrance test for prospective students is finding the school itself.

Room and board, books, meals, and anything else the students may need are all provided at no charge, so there are no school fees. All students get a private room with an ensuite, though parents may book in advance to reserve more extravagant rooms for their children.

What is required in place of school fees is that each student sign a contract, which makes them the legal property of Hollow Fields until their graduation the next year and means they cannot leave the school grounds at any time. In the contract is a clause that says every Friday night the child with the lowest grades gets sent to detention at the windmill.

The curriculum can be very dangerous, as seen by Miss Weaver's remark upon it being a milestone that no student had lost a finger or ear to a class experiment for over a month.

Layout
There is the inner hall where students wait for their next classes and pass through to get from classroom to classroom.

There is a kitchen and dining hall which are manned by steam-driven kitchen drones that can adjust their cuisine to individual students. There is no fighting allowed in the dining hall.

The old windmill is where children are sent to detention, and is located at the southern end of the estate. It is covered in rust and infested with crows.

There is a large amount of clockwork throughout the school, and makes grinding noises at night that make it hard for Lucy to sleep at first.

Curriculum
Classes that are mentioned in the text are:
 * Basic Killer Robot Construction
 * Cross-Species Body-Part Transplantation
 * Embalming
 * Fundamentals of Grave Robbing
 * Live Taxidermy
 * Zombie Construction

Staff
The staff of Hollow Fields are called the Engineers, and are as follows:
 * Miss Weaver: principal, founder, and teacher of Basic Killer Robot Construction
 * Mr. Croach: teacher of Grave Robbing, Live Taxidermy, and Embalming
 * Miss Ricketts: school nurse and teacher of Cross-Species Body-Part Transplantation
 * Miss Notch: maid and security
 * Stinch: caretaker and warden

History
The estate is well over two hundred years old, and has undergone extensive renovations and expansion from Miss Weaver. It is said that she is the only one who knows the entire layout.