Magic School
Did you also wish to send your spellcasters to a real Magic School, something Hogwart like?
I want to present to you Bonehilda's Magic School :)
*Now available also for children BUT to be able to fully participate in school as a child Sim - you need mod "Kids can perform magic/spell" by Cepzid available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/realistic-kids-41547853?l=de
***You can use MCCC settings to enable highschool dropping, OR Triplis mod if MCCC option doesn't work as expected. If it doesn't work, try turning off the ability to leave and join careers in neighborhood stories. Also check for mods that might override the in-game school. It appears that for example adeepindigo's mod Education Overhaul might conflict with dropping school mods.
Julia gave me her feedback that it's better to "use triplis', even if you have MCCC, because it allows you to go to magic school as a career and still have afterschool activities, whereas MCCC makes you choose one or the other."
New School to choose
You can choose this as school career - normally by phone or computer, and if you have enabled school dropping by teens (with MCCC), this school will automatically replace the normal high school.
School Levels and Tasks
In this school you don't get normal grades, but you move to next level. Each level means diffrent set of tasks to get to next level. You start as Beginner.
At each level Sim needs to write an essay on chosen topic (topics also change depending on level). You will get book to write essays in (Sim should use writing animation if they have desk or table nearby). If you lose the book, you can buy it normally via bookshelf.
During entire school experience you can ask Sages for Career advices ;) (under Friendly>Activities sub Category)
Various Subjects
While attending classes, you can choose various subjects. All available subjects are unlocked on 3rd level. If you choose Astronomy - you'll learn logic, if you use Practical Magic you'll have a chance to learn spell at the end of the day (but it will not always happen).
Exam
On 4th level, you have to pass an exam. It is an active event. Click on your Sim to Take an Exam. Selecting 'yes' will take your Sim to Realm of Magic and event will start presenting the exam tasks to complete. If you fail completely, you can repeat an event. But if you pass at least with Bronze level, you will get a note and no chance to repeat. Don't worry, bronze level is already satisfactory :) I suggest to start with brewing a potion... it takes the longest time.
Exam notes have an impact my magic careers and salary. With best note - Excellent (Gold level)- you start careers from level 2 and you get signigicant salary boost (from 40 till 25% of the salary base). Very Good note (Silver level) - you'll get salary boost from 20 till 15%). Satisfactory level means you completed the school, but with no benefits.
Active School
I enabled this by "work from home" option (maybe in the future I could do real active school but this would require more testing). Choose work from home, the assignment would be to complete event Magic School at least at Bronze level. You can go to Realm of Magic or other lot (library or generic) that you choose for school. Also if you have Zerbu’s mod for Venues, you can place Realm of Magic lot outside of exact realm of magic.
Children can also participate in the event. Click on child Sim who joined the school - there will be interaction available to participate in the event - it will open the menu will all events, so just find the right one.
Probably I will try to improve this mod in the future, especially Active part of the school, but first I want to hear from you some feedbacks :)
Languages
English (by me, default)
Spanish by:
CindySims - integrated
EnCriollo, to download from here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/escuela-de-magia-114624478
German - by helene912, to download from here: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/translations/ilkavelle-in-german
Polish (by me)
French (by Kimiko Soma)
Portuguese (qlaqercoixsa)
Russian (Annie Hugss)
Dutch (by GothiqeSimmer)
Chinese by Shiloh and by Licer
Ukrainian, by Mariia M, to download from here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ukrayinskii-modu-115008800
Czech, by SimsCzechTeam, to download from here: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/translations/magic-school-by-ilkavelle-czech-translation
Requires Realm of Magic.
Change Log:
28/02/2026 - updated for all February patches
7/12/2025 - not patch related, this update included some fixes, improvements and changes, also PlumbBuddy manifest was added. Details what exactly was changed for this mod can be found in this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mods-update-145212977
03/07/2025 - Updated for patch 1st July (1.116.202) - pre Enchanted by Nature EP.
12/11/2024 - added Chinese Simplified translation by Licer
4/11/2024 - added compatibility with the new EP Life & Death.
27/07/2024 - updated for the Patch from 23rd of July (1.108.289.) Pre-Lovestruck and compatible with Hotfixes
05/06/2024 - filtering corrected for Active school participants, now you should be able to add other students to active school event.
03/03/2024 - updated for the Patch from 27th of February (1.105.297) and compatible with Hotfix from 28th of February.
22/01/2024 - homework fix - students of Magic school will be able to do a homework. I don't know how it happened, cause I was fixing this in the past already, but anyway this bug was still a bug, but now, hopefully it's solved forever.
01/07/2023 - fix for homework, fix for telescope assignment, tuning improvements
23/03/2023 - update for March 14th patch (Infants & Growing Together)
12/08/2022 - updated for July 26th patch
09/05/2022 - fix for uniforms (2nd version of file created for those without Spooky Stuff pack)
14/02/2022 - added school uniforms
24/07/2021 - updated for July 20th patch
01/07/2021 - added option for Children to join school
29/05/2021 – Update for patch from 27th of May. Also changed number of participants in Active School Day event - up to 40 students now allowed - of course if you have so many teen spellcasters in your game ;)
10/03/2021 - I corrected Magic School event – Active day at school. Now you can choose lots: Realm of Magic, libraries or generic. Also if you have Zerbu’s mod for Venues, you can place Realm of Magic lot outside of exact realm of magic.
27/11/2020 - updated with fix for Away Action Potions and coming back from school, fix for interaction for career advices (at 5th level)
Comments (91)
Hi and thank you for this mod! I'm having an issue where, when I log out of the game and then come back, my Magic School students are back to being High School students. And I'm having to quit school again and rejoin Magic School. I'm wondering if anyone else faced this issue or knows what might be causing it? I do have the Education Overhaul mod by Adeepindigo installed and technically haven't tested to see if removing that would remove the issue as I do use it regularly for my gameplay.
I wanted to ask why the Portuguese Brazilian translation isn't available; the link doens't open
Heya; I just re-downloaded this for a new spellcaster sim, and am finding that it's not "work from home", and each day the sim automatically "goes to school". If I cancel the queued item to go to school, it shows them as missing school. When I create an event to actually go to Magic School, I can do everything I'm supposed to do, but soon I get a phone call "School Warning" for not showing up to school. It's probably been a year since I last used it, and I didn't encounter this back then 🫠 Is it just me? thankss
Hmmm... I have just tested it, and it seems working fine. Are you sure you are not missing a call 1 hour before school to choose? It doesn't work as high school, it has a mechanism of semi-active careers, so there's a call 1h before school and if you miss that, Sim automatically goes to work.
Is this working with the latest patch?
Yes, it does.
Hi! Thank you for your mod. I was wondering if there's something I just don't get but how do you enrol children in the school? It works perfectly with teens as the careers are already available for them but there's no active career button for children and the magic school does not appear in the extracurricular activities via the phone. I successfully downloaded Triplis mod and made my child sim quit regular school. And i have Kids can perform magic/spell installed and working. But still no clue how to enrol :( Maybe I'm just stupid lol but still will be grateful for the tip. Thnx <3
Hmmm... But it should appear among extracurricular activities via the phone.... I will recheck this.
Hi! My sim just finished the SAGE exam and it said she graduated, but for some reason she got the "heatproof" reward trait and the "magic school graduate" trait is nowhere to be found in the simology panel.
Is she still a student? She will get the trait for graduate once she drop off the school, or become an adult. I don't know where the heatproof trait came from :D maybe it's just the coincidence :D
Is this mod only intended for teens or can I also use this for young adult sims as a sort of magic university?
It's only for teens now.
Hi, I've been experiencing some bugs in the mod. Whenever I click "participate school day event" or take the SAGE exam (basically all mod-related events I guess?), my sim's face turns into a bugged state, with red and white boxes on it. It also seems like all spellcaster children / teens also turn into this state. I've tested this without other mods, only with the magic careers, magic school, and children can do magic mod. Could you possibly check this out? Thank you!
Hi, I am not sure which version of the mod you use, since I posted a new version just yesterday afternoon. So first, please make sure you use the newest version. Second, there are 2 versions for uniforms. If you don't have Spooky day, delete the .package that requires Spooky day. The error you describe usually happen with a broken CC, so I would check that, especially that these events force the outfit. I'll wait for your reply, and then we'll see what to do next.
Hi, I'm having a problem with the mod, and I don't know if you could help me. I should mention that it's most likely an incompatibility with another add-on I have, but just to be sure I wanted to ask you. I enrolled my child Sim in school as an extracurricular activity, but the schedule is the same as regular school, and the game didn't like that hehe. I save the game, and when I return, one of two things happens: either the 'magical school career' disappears along with all my progress, or my regular school grades and progress get completely messed up (grades go up or down, homework I've already done disappears, and, worst of all, I can't go to school—'go to school' doesn't work, calls from the principal can't be answered, among other things). I don't know what to do anymore, or which mod could be causing this (especially since they're all updated), do you have any idea?
Hi, so firstly, this mod was not yet updated 4 days ago. Please make sure to download the newest version, but for now it's only available in the newest post about Patch. Second, unfortunately the issue is caused by the fact that Sim can't be enrolled to 2 schools at the same time. So first you need to quit the normal school. I recommend more Triplis mod for this, because I found MCCC solution not very stable for this option. Also if you have adeepindigo Education overhaul mod, that will unfortunately make the "regular" school to come back. So this is what I can suggest for now. I'll wait for your reply and we'll see what can be done next.
Hey :) do you think this would work with a custom venue (obv not currently) but im trying to add more of a school effect in the background. not sure if eas bs is working either way but adding teacher roles that fit a primary and highschool and different age group classes, principal cafeteria. maybe im dreaming :D <3 i need to clear my head theres so many different systems in this game im sure theres a way (lmao)
hm it would have to be separate from the normal magic school probably so maybe just need custom venue options for a school/magic school. sorry to ramble here, just i have no skill in this and trying to figure out options while rambling and googling. prob delete if i realise its completely out of place *.*'
Good evening, after numerous attempts to get your mod working on my game session, having followed the instructions and installed the necessary and recommended add-ons, I've reached a dead end. I don't know if your explanations aren't clear enough, or if it's an update issue with the latest version of the game. However, I think the explanations need to be revised with more detail. Specifically, regarding the initial characteristics of the Sim and the world: Do I need to be in a specific location? Do I need to place a particular building, or prepare a lot? Does the Sim need to have any predispositions for the mod to work? After leaving teacher training college, what needs to be done to avoid automatic re-enrollment? Your mod seems ambitious and unique in its function, but it doesn't appear easy to use. Like Loren Sonnier, I need help. With all my love! 🩷
Hi, I'm sorry, but is this comment about my mod? Sometimes Patreon makes some tricks, I've already got several comments that were supposed to be for different mods so I want to make sure :) Especially that there is nothing about teacher training college in my mod :) Do you ask about Magic school? It's just a regular career. You can find it under the careers panel. But your teen or child Sim must be a spellcaster first. Once your Sim choose this "career", it appears in the Sim career panel - the same place where other careers can be checked, or school level. For "active event" it works like semi-active careers. So 1h before your Sim goes to work, there's a pop up question if you want to go to work, or work from home. Choose work from home and by clicking on a Sim choose interaction to start Active Day. It will work as social event - and you'll be able to choose either a lot that is a library, or a lot in Realm of Magic. No other special location is needed. I don't know, does it answer your questions? :)
Hi, I hope that all is well? Thank you for this amazing mod!! I am thinking about getting realm of magic but I am still hesitating. By any chance do you know if it is compatible with WildWitch's " spellcaster spell class" mod? https://modthesims.info/d/653355/spellcaster-spell-class.html (Would your event be disturbed if an autonomous spell class start during that time, as they should be starting every 3h? Sorry to bother you with that I am thinking you might know the modder as they gave you a shoutout). I am unsure if it will still be working as of today though 😅
is there a way to get this working with the fairies vs witches mod? I widely prefer the magic system in that mod to base game and it would be awesome if I could send my witch sims to magic shool but I'm not seeing the option in the career panel
Hi, I am now updating all my mods. I will make this choosable for all, not only spellcasters. The same for all my spellcasters careers. But I will not modify anything else within the mod, so there might be some tasks, that only spellcasters can do. The reason is, because I made this whole big plan how to enhace the entire Magic school, so I'm working on this, but it's going very slowly, because I always have to jump to other topics, patches breaking my mods etc. But I just can't put too many efforts into "old magic school" because I will never finish "new magic school" :D
One thing I want to point out is that on holidays where you get the day off school you will get a negative assessment for the day, since you didn't go to school, and your performance will go down, I think this is also happening on the weekends.
Thanks! Noted down for next updates.
Hi! I absolutely love this mod, however I'm having some trouble and I was wondering if you have heard of anyone else having the same issue. It may be a mod conflict that someone else has figured out. Anyhoo, when I have my teen and child sims quit school and join the magic school career, it will automatically have them quite magic school and re-enroll them in normal school. I have used the suggested settings for mccc and I have also tried using the triplis quit school mod. I have the same issue with both. Is this related to the latest patch or do you have any ideas as to what it could be? It's probably a me issue but I thought I would try asking if you have heard of this issue before. Thanks for all of your hard work with these amazing mods!
if you turn off the ability to leave and join careers in neighborhood stories it will stop this
im using vortex. and the mod is not working for me at all. am i doing something wrong. im using my witch build and want her to go to a magic school
Hi, I'm sorry, I don't use Vortex, so I'm not sure how it can affect this mod. From logical perspective it should not. My mod requires XML injector for some options to appear, but to enroll to Magic school you don't even need that, you just need to have child or teen spellcaster and choose this school from Career Panel (by phone or computer).
Hi I wanted to make sure this was working with the latest update that broke a bunch of mods? Also my child sim keeps quitting magic school and reenrolling in regular school despite the mccc settings. I took out Triplis mod as it hasn't been cleared for the last patch yet. My teen sims have the high school drop out despite being enrolled in magic school and if I remove the trait it re-enrolls them back into regular school. Also is it possible to set a dress code for the school events? Everyone shows up in random outfits that they don't normally wear including my sims.
use neighborhood stories to stop them from leaving and joining a new career. I use the Fashion Authority mod to create school uniforms for my students and professors, but your students should be showing up in a black robe that came with the mod. there are two versions of the robe, and you have to install only one, if you put both in your mods folder you will have to remove one. And the mod works just fine for me on the newest patch.
Hi again, man this mod is great. is there a way to make a version that is always work from home? I've created a magical boarding school, and I have 40 students enrolled and living at the school. The problem is if I don't do a school day event, they all leave at 8:00 in the morning to go into the rabbit hole job. I would love for them to stay even when I don't do school day event. Thanks for putting up with me :P
Hi, thanks for nice words, it really makes my day better when I read comments like this ❤️ So, I do have a big project to make this an active career. And in general to redo the entire thing. But I have so many ideas written down and I want to give so many options to players, that it all overwhelmed me and I burnt out while working on this. It doesn't mean I cancelled the project, it just means I need a better planning and organization, not to get lost :)
hey, loving playing with this mod. I turned other NPCs into the Sage of Practical Magic and the Sage of Untamed Magic, but they are not selectable as professors during he school day events, I'm able to choose the Sage of Mischief, since she wasn't changed. Is there a way to add the Magic School professor trait to these sims?
I figured it out, I just had to max out their magic, now i have 6 professors in my magic boarding school!
Hi, first i want to say thank you so much for this mod that adds amazing depth and story telling its been a lot of fun <3 but i also want to let you know that when i go to have a child start a school event there are no options in the select main student area. it works fine for teens and i tried removing every mod except for: kids perform magic, xmllnjector 4.2, triplis quit school, (simMattically menu refresh cos my game cant start without it), mccc 2025 v4 (current) and of course your magic school mod and its still not an option.
actually i take it back its not working for teens now. i know you're on holiday, just leaving notes for later :) sorry also removing triplis and mccc makes no difference.
Hii, it's been a while since I've had a spellcaster, but I recently put the school back in my mods folder, and it's acting different to before. Magic school students don't seem to be generating - I literally have one NPC student. What's different for me is that I have the Education Overhaul mod from adeepindigo, and I don't know if that will affect generation of students? A separate thing not really a huge deal is that I quit normal high school and it disappears as a career, but the next day it reappears. So I can do the magic school event tasks, I usually have to quit school again, so it works 😭
The reappearing school might be caused by adeepindigo mod, or other mod that somehow override school. I also had this issue with settings from MCCC - I think this option to quit school doesn't work really well from MCCC. As for generated students - my mod do not generate Sims, it just uses Sims already available in your game. If you don't have spellcasters that are teens, then the event will not have anyone to choose from. If you use some mods that interfere with townies generation - maybe it also limits spellcaster generation? It's hard for me to say exactly what could cause this. But if you add more teen spellcasters to the world - then they should be choosable for the event or join event autonomously. Also maybe check if you use Home regions? Maybe this is somehow blocking some Sims from appearing?
aż miło wspierać rodowitych twórców modów <3
Dziękuję bardzo i tylko żałuję, że dołączyłaś/eś w momencie, gdy nie idzie mi zbyt dobrze regularna aktywność :(
A few more questions about the event (I started the event in the realm of magic): *I'm supposed to use a telescope! Where? *Ask the professor 3 questions? I don't have a professor *Other students do something, I could only choose another student, is that enough?
1. You can adjust the lot as you want, so you can add a telescope to the lot as well. 2. When you start the event, you can choose a professor. You can always start the event again. There's no penalty in not completing Magic school event. 3. It's enough to choose only 1 student. You need to have other teen/child spellcasters in the worlds to choose other students. I don't work on improving some functionality things in this mod now, cause I work on a big overhaul to it.
You should have written that this is only possible if you are already a sorceress.
where is it the portugueseee
It should be integrated into the mod, so no need to download anything else. If it's not working, please let me know.
Hi, thank you so much for your work! I have translated this mod into Ukrainian: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ukrayinskii-modu-115008800
Thank you! I will add it, probably during this weekend, when I will be updating some articles. :)
Hi i am wondering can you recommend a nice lot that will suit your mod ? :) I use the ordinary hogwart's lots people create and have placed in the gallery but yes none of them got school bench as a regular school. I am so taken by this idea because i got 8 generations of occults and each family had plenty of kids so my sim got a broad family tree :)
You mean like from the Gallery, to download? I'm afraid I don't have anything really special, I am just using the Realm of Magic by someone who updated the original one. I will think about it :)
I can't find the translation in Spanish :(
Sorry for my late replying, I had really busy time to handle all my things. So Spanish translation is integrated in the mod :) when you download my mod, it will be already there, within the same package :)
I dont see the magic school option after I go to join a career on my Teen. Using Triplis mod.
Is your Sim a Spellcaster? Normally it appears only for spellcasters.
Hi! The mod is amazing. I have a question. Can my teen, for ex, graduate an usual high school early or drop it and apply for magic school? Without using a MCCC function or others. Thank you~
Yes! That should work as well ;)
Hi Ilkavelle! I just started using this mod and so far it's amazing. I do have an issue though that I don't actually go to the school with my sim when she "leaves for work". I'm using Tripli's and had no issue assigning the career. I'm concerned maybe I missed a download that had the tray information for the magic school replacement to the standard highschool?
Hi, what do you mean? Like a rabbit hole interaction doesn't work? Do you have an option to go to school/work on the career panel, when the school time starts?
Hi would I be able to send my kids into a rabbit hole
Hi, so this mod allows both, to either attending magic school as a rabbit hole, or to choose "work from home" and to attend an active school event. Is that what you asked about?
I love this mod so much and have literally been playing it for years lol. Would it be possible to make a Magic University or make the school compatible for young adult sims?
I was thinking about it, but honestly, spellcasters doesn't have that much gameplay to extend learning to University :D I was even annoyed by the fact how fast they progressed in magic during school. I just don't have ideas, what they could learn at the university :) but I welcome any suggestions :)
Is it compatible with adeepindigo's Education Overhaul? And especially with its additional schools?
I think yes. My mod adds simply a new type of school that a spellcaster kid can join (like custom career), but a Sim can attend only 1 school at a time. I assume you can choose magic school or schools added by adeepindigo. But I can't tell in 100%, I think it will be save to simply check in the game.
Czy ten mod nadal jest aktualizowany i dziala?
Hej, jak najbardziej, działa, nie wymagał aktualizowania po ostatnich patchach :) Zawsze, gdy wychodzi nowy patch, robię post podsumowujący, które mody wymagały naprawy. Dodatkowo robię takie podsumowanie na stronie: https://ilkavelle.wixsite.com/simsquest/mods-status Mam nadzieję, że pomogłam i rozwiałam wątpliwości :)
everytime I load the game or go to manage worlds and back into live, sims enrolled in magic school are no longer enrolled and I have to re enroll them. its not game breaking, but it is frustrating
Did you quit the school first? from my experience quitting school with MCCC does not work, I always use Triplis mod and disable this option in MCCC. My Magic school has also "school attribute" so, it might conflict with other mods that somehow override regular school files.
Hello! Love your work, I wonder if it would work with the Harry Potter world save that changes entire Windenburg to Hogwarts themed map? I have the venue mod that could change the venue type.
You can try, I don't see any reasons why it would not work. My mod does not override anything, so it should not conflict in any way.
This is amazing! Is there anyway you could make it for Saturday’s only? Or as an after school class? To go to both regular school and magic school?
I think that if I make it "afterschool activity" - then it could coexist with normal school. I'll see what I can do.
Hi! I downloaded the mod and I really like it this far :) Could you also add a teacher career? I basically have a sim who aspires to teach young mages, and that career would be so cool for her to have!
Hi, I am now semi-retired from modding, meaning I just keep my exisitng mods up to date now, cause of lack of time and motivation. But I am still thinking about returning one day, maybe a simple career would be something achievable for me :D
Hi, I’m having difficulty setting up the magic school mod. I have MCCC to enable school quitting for teens however after when I go to find a job, it doesn’t show magic school. I’ve even tried quitting school first and then trying to find a job and the only option shown is regular high school. Am I doing something wrong ?
Sim to join magic school must be child or teen AND must be a spellcaster (it can be a spellcaster trait not yet manifested). Otherwise the career will not appear on the list. Is that a case?
Do you have to go to active school for the pass the exam option to show up? Also children cannot do events, even with the other kids mod, so they cannot level up since a magical school day event is a requirement to advance.
Children can do events, I forgot to mention, I added an interaction to children and teens if they are school students - click on a child and find interaction to participate in magic school event - this will open for you the list of all events and you can find Magic School event and start it. Pass the exam option... no, this option should appear normally once 4th level starts (but I didn't test it for children, cause in my thoughts it was only exam for teens because of requirements and difficulty).
By any chance, can we get a version where kids are able to join? There is another mod out there that lets kids cast magic: https://www.patreon.com/posts/realistic-kids-41547853
it's now added :)
This is AMAZING! I have a question or two though; will we be able to have multiple Magic schools or will that break the mod? Will you make a companion mod that allows for magical adults to maybe work in The ministry of Magic and Magical Prison and/or Hospitals?
Hi, as I mentioned in previous comment, I didn't saw comments to this post at all! I feel so ashamed by this. What do you mean by multiple Magic schools? like lots? if you mean lots, it should not break the mod (only for Exam the Sim will probably be sent to random school). As for careers, I did already several of them, Ministry of Magic is not between them, but I have it on my long to do list. If you mean more active career (like doctor or actor) well that's the level I still didn't achieve in modding ;)
Does this work for kids too?? Like if I have the Talented Kids Mod (kids do magic) installed too?? I want fully magic school educated sims, lol!
Hi, oh dear, I didn't saw comments to this post at all! not sure what happened! but to reply to your question- no, it only works for teens now, but part for children is in work, still I don't know when I'll finish it...
SO EXCITED!!!! <3 <3
oh my !!!!!! my dream comes true Thank youuuuuu
Thank you so much! I've been wanting something like this for so long! Much appreciated!
<3
Love this Thank you!!
Oh man, you are awesssssssooooome! Thanks for this mod.
YASSS!!!!