Massachusetts Academy

The training ground of the now-deceased Hellions, formerly the School for Gifted Youngsters, home base of Generation X. The Academy is owned by Emma Frost, and is an affiliate of the Xavier Institute. The campus includes dormitories, headmasters' cabins, and a biosphere, in addition to classroom buildings, rec halls, and a state-of-the-art medical center. When the Hellions were in residence, the Academy operated as a regular private high school, with about a thousand normal students enrolled, in addition to the Hellions. In its original capacity as Gen X's base and school, enrollment is limited to the mutant kids, although efforts were once made to enroll a human for a summer program. After Frost Enterprises took a heavy hit in the stock market, however, enrollment was opened up to human students, and the titular affiliation to Xavier's was removed, to disassociate the school from any negative feeling left over from Onslaught. In the last six months, however, the school was abandoned by the human population and is home solely to the Gen X kids now.