What school do students attend in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series?

Students attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.

Hogwarts is a fictional British boarding school for young witches and wizards. It is located in Scotland and is generally described as hidden from the non-magical population, called Muggles. The school is divided into four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin.

Harry Potter begins attending Hogwarts at age eleven. The school provides the main setting for most of the novels, where Harry studies magic, forms friendships, competes in house activities, and encounters many of the series’ central dangers.

Hogwarts is not the only wizarding school in the fictional universe. Beauxbatons Academy is associated with France, Durmstrang Institute with northern Europe, and Ilvermorny with North America. These institutions appear in the wider canon, but none is the school Harry attends.