School Anime on Netflix

An outgoing, popular girl who’s secretly a homebody bonds with her nerdy classmate who hides his tattoos and piercings while at school.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 9
Netflix ID: 81020819 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A blond transfer student desperate for social connection founds a club for people who have trouble making friends. Wacky (and awkward) hijinks ensue.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80132156 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After his mother's death, a piano prodigy's will to play disappears. But meeting a free-spirited girl who plays the violin turns his life around.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80041089 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage boys Peco and Smile grew up playing table tennis together and now face grueling competition, forcing them to grow as both athletes and men.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 80169477 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kusuo and his gaggle of self-proclaimed friends are back for more psychic mishaps. If he didn't have enough problems before, he's got even more now.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix ID: 81054849 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Middle schooler Shigeo looks normal, but he's secretly a formidable psychic whose powers threaten to break free unless he represses his emotions.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80179798 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ex-hoodlum Eikichi Onizuka decides to be Japan's best teacher. He's hired to supervise a class of hopeless cases; it's his chance to prove himself.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80124041 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A bored girl in the countryside starts sporadically waking up in the body of a city boy who's living the exciting life she'd always dreamed of.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.4
Runtime: 01:46:34
Netflix ID: 80161371 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Orphaned young, a reclusive 17-year-old professional shogi player starts to come out of his shell when three sisters take him under their wing.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80196657 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After dying to save a boy, delinquent tough guy Yusuke Urameshi is granted another chance at life by redeeming himself as a 'Spirit Detective.'

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81005375 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Five middle school basketball stars went to separate high schools, and now Tetsuya Kuroko and Seirin High are making their play for glory.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80063153 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tohru Honda moves in with the reclusive Soma clan after her family dies, and learns their secret: they've been bound for centuries by a zodiac curse.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 80987063 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where beasts of all kinds coexist, a gentle wolf awakens to his own predatory urges as his school deals with a murder within its midst.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 81054847 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Hikaru Shindo discovers an old Go board with a surprising secret: Trapped inside the board is Fujiwara-no-Sai, the ghost of an ancient Go master.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 70202864 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A teen haunted by the spirit of an old friend summons the other members of their childhood club to help fulfill the girl's final wish.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80075178 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After the death of young Menma Honma, a group of her childhood friends sees her miraculous return in this cinematic adaptation of the anime series.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:39:15
Netflix ID: 70299545 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Gifted pitcher Aoba grows closer to her older sister Wakaba's friend Ko after Wakaba's death. Ko is secretly training to fulfill Wakaba's dream.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 80161920 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young chef Soma enters the prestigious Totsuki Culinary Academy, where he must emerge victorious in over-the-top cooking battles or face expulsion.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80182054 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A former class bully reaches out to the deaf girl he'd tormented in grade school. He feels unworthy of redemption but tries to make things right.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.2
Runtime: 02:09:32
Netflix ID: 80223226 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ridiculed at first, a determined high schooler leads her eclectic group of friends on an expedition to Antarctica in search of her mother.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80995912 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With guts and determination, high school student Chihaya works towards her childhood dream of becoming the top-ranked female karuta player in Japan.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81403566 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Asakusa’s a fountain of ideas, Kanamori’s a natural-born producer and Mizusaki’s an aspiring animator. Together, they’re making the best anime ever.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81416331 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Scouted for his potential, brash left-handed pitcher Eijun Sawamura joins baseball powerhouse Seido High to become the undisputed ace of the team.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81424512 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, Ryuji forms an unlikely friendship with Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80049275 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that they are going to hold a Christmas party, but a couple of days later, Haruhi goes missing.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:43:05
Netflix ID: 70223722 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The proudly privileged top two students of an elite school each makes it their mission to be the first to extract a confession of love from the other.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 81061754 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a peculiar homeless man makes him human again, ex-vampire Koyomi helps other high school students with their own supernatural predicaments.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80060347 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When he stumbles upon Tora, a demon who's been impaled by a spear, young Ushio frees the beast and demands his help in fighting other agents of evil.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 70309073 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A destructive alien who is threatening Earth becomes a schoolteacher whose students are tasked with killing him, even though they adore his fun ways.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 80045948 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Junior high students Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi team up to become manga artists, propelled by a promise from Mashiro's crush, Miho Azuki.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80147367 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Baseball ace Kazuya, his slacker twin brother and the girl next door have been always been inseparable, but as they grow older, new challenges arise.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81086888 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To keep the boys in line, student council president Misaki runs the school with an iron fist -- while secretly working as a waitress at a maid café.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81104406 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After experiencing 'puberty syndrome' himself, high school pariah Sakuta keeps meeting girls suffering from it, including his sister and actor Mai.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81228009 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After learning that all her library books were previously borrowed by the same person, schoolgirl Shizuku sets out to meet him and follow her dreams.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 01:51:12
Netflix ID: 70045021 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The 'woman with the scissor blade' -- Ryuko Matoi -- searches for clues all around the world for the truth behind her father's death.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70305217 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A timid, anime-loving teen gets drawn into a school cycling club, where his new friends help him face tough challenges to develop his racing talent.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80061943 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Alienated Tomoya goes through high school by rote until he meets Nagisa, who's been ill. When she decides to restart the Drama Club, his life changes.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:33:56
Netflix ID: 80245375 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kuroko reunites with the 'Generation of Miracles' when former rivals are humiliated in an exhibition game against a notorious street basketball team.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:30:16
Netflix ID: 80991755 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Avid camper Rin meets a girl named Nadeshiko on a solo camping trip. Their friendship expands their ideas about spending time in the great outdoors.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 81392083 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A meek guy with untapped potential joins his high school's highly-ranked soccer team and forms unbreakable bonds with his unique teammates.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 80116834 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Middle class Tsukushi is not impressed by the four rich, popular boys who rule the prestigious academy she attends, even when one of them falls for her.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 70018258 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a high school that's a way station to the afterlife, a teenager gets caught up in the battle for the rights of those in this purgatorial world.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70201870 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Haruhi Suzumiya wants to live in a world where aliens, psychics and time travelers are real. To make it happen, she starts a club.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80132288 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A high school runner is suddenly transported to the magical world of Gaea, where she must unite with the prince against the evil Zaibach empire.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80146069 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In these short episodes, three students at an all-boys high school enjoy hanging out and not doing anything particularly noteworthy or momentous.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Netflix ID: 80146301 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:49:03
Netflix ID: 81037593 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three wildly different 8th graders create a "pastimes" club to get through the absurdity of middle school. Or something. They just want to have fun.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81264508 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Forced to move to a dorm of strange yet extraordinary people, a high schooler takes care of a beautiful, famous painter and finds himself along the way.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81165091 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Popular high school student Kaname Chidori possesses the powers of 'the Whispered,' making her a target of a deadly terror organization.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70204978 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Underemployed Arata is offered a job -- with a catch: become a tester for 'ReLIFE' and relive a year of high school after rejuvenation treatment.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80218507 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two stepbrothers vow to bring their school's baseball team to the Summer Koshien National Championship, honoring their fathers' legacy 30 years later.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81046488 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Above-average student Takashi Kamiyama enrolls in Cromartie High. Common sense isn't too common in this whacky school for bizarre delinquents.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 70023575 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Gifted with speed and agility, a bullied teen aims to reinvent himself by joining his high school's undermanned American football team.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81422700 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Having vanquished a powerful demon at age six, precocious wizard Wang Ling must now navigate high school life as an ordinary teen.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81364944 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young high school student is killed by a girl on his very first date, he's revived by a girl devil and made a devil himself.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80005873 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The five male students of a formerly all-girls school must contend with the draconian Underground School Council and their own lascivious desires.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 80182081 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage Yuu dreams of receiving a love confession -- until it happens and she's left cold. But when a girl confesses to her, she feels differently.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81025783 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With Deku, All Might visits an old friend on the technologically advanced I-Island, when a gang of villains takes the whole city hostage.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:35:47
Netflix ID: 81051689 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yoshimori follows in his ancestors' footsteps as a guardian of Karasumori, where supernatural beasts threaten the mystical land every night.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 70227660 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Determined to throw off the curse of being Satan's illegitimate son, Rin enters the True Cross Academy to become an exorcist, just like his mentor.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70304252 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fifteen middle schoolers agree to test the game that a is creating in a seaside cave and find themselves defending Earth from giant robots.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80133772 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A boy with superpowers is forced to join his peers at a special school where they can protect themselves from organizations who seek to exploit them.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80142917 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After going their separate ways, four childhood friends now in high school reunite to restore the Iwatobi Swim Club back to its former glory.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 80186018 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Miho Nishizumi tries to escape her family's tradition of tankery by enrolling at a new high school. Instead she gets back into the sport with friends.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 80205232 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The girls of Otonokizaka Academy, led by the intrepid Honoka Kosaka, form an idol group to try to save their beloved school from shutting down.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 80150600 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During a training exercise, esper Mikoto gets the feeling that she's being watched. As her paranoia grows, her friends find she's not the only one.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 00:34:12
Netflix ID: 80193426 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where humans are divided between the land and the sea, four childhood friends from the ocean must attend middle school on the surface.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80132218 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

At Fumizuki Academy, lowly students can improve their lot by summoning beastly avatars to defeat their classmates in the elite upper classes.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 70205609 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Yuta wants to leave his past as a delusional weirdo behind. But his classmate Rikka has her own delusions, and she's interested in his.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80239860 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tennis prodigiy Ryoma Echizen enters the tennis powerhouse Seishun Academy. Once he fights his way onto the team, the game will never be the same.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80185867 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tetsuo's job as a high school teacher gives him lots of chances to research demi-humans, including a vampire, a succubus, a snow woman and a dullahan.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 81031526 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ikki's lack of magic is a disappointment, but when Princess Stella duels him, she learns he's got other skills. Maybe serving him won't be a chore.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 81092933 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two high schoolers find hope as they fight to save an old wartime era clubhouse from destruction during the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 01:31:15
Netflix ID: 70262786 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Futaba reunites with her first love Kou, but the years they spent apart changed them both. To reconnect, they'll have to be honest.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 81341994 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shizuku, a hardworking student who isn't interested in socializing, finds an unlikely friend in Haru, an emotionally volatile boy at her school.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80011358 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Cocoa moves to a European-style village and starts working at the Rabbit House café along with quiet Chino and military girl Rize.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80152064 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Middle school freshmen Haruka and Makoto join the school swim team, and have to join forces with their new teammates to win.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:50:47
Netflix ID: 80187571 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Konata prefers anime, manga and games to homework. Her friends Miyuki, Tsukasa and Kagami don't understand, but they support her anyway.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix ID: 80193621 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of high school students struggle through the pains of first love. It's not easy, especially for the clueless and the awkward.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix ID: 80993354 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sora joins the high school basketball club, but his unmotivated teammates don't care about the game. To get anywhere, he has to change their minds.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix ID: 80245713 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The girls of Ōarai High must face off against a formidable university team in a fierce tank battle to once again avoid closure of their school.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 02:00:34
Netflix ID: 80159876 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The girls on Oarai’s tankery team look forward to finishing out the school year in peace, but before they know it, they're back on the battlefield.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix ID: 81418299 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki enroll at Magic High School, where Miyuki's honors status comes between her and her underachieving older brother.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80009361 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Brought back to life as a zombie by a necromancer, Ayumu Aikawa searches for his killer while helping a magical girl and a vampire ninja battle demons.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 80006166 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Desperate to fit in, Erika convinces a nice-guy schoolmate to pretend to be her boyfriend. But she soon learns he's not as kind as he seems.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80170348 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As one of the few boys at a formerly all-girls school, Takatoshi reluctantly joins the student council while dealing with his colorful classmates.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80212542 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Umaru is the ideal high school student: smart, pretty and caring. But at home, she's a lazy, soda-guzzling gamer. Only her brother knows the truth.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80205564 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An awkward half-demoness moves into a special high-security building for people like her, but she feels stifled by her very loyal personal bodyguard.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80207320 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Raku, the heir to a yakuza family, must fake a relationship with the daughter of a rival faction in order to keep the peace between the two families.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80186309 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fairy tale that parallels their friendship.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:30:10
Netflix ID: 81044602 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With his family deep in debt, Futaro Uesugi accepts a lucrative job tutoring underachieving quintuplet classmates to help them graduate high school.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81152346 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After target panic drives him from archery in middle school, Minato decides to return to the sport when his friends join the high school kyudo club.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81416630 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shy high school kid gets gleefully — but affectionately — teased by a sadistic younger girl in school. Weirdly enough, he kind of likes it!

Year: 2021
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81427422 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kiyo’s a smart kid with no friends, but all that changes when he meets Zatch, a magical child competing in a tournament to be named King!

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 70308350 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teen vampire Akatsuki Kojo lives in the monster city of Itogami, where he's suspected of being the fabled 'Fourth Progenitor,' the strongest vampire.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80132067 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After Miki's parents return from a trip, she finds out they're divorcing. Things get complicated when they invite another couple to move in with them.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 70308338 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A jaded, lazy substitute teacher takes over a class at the Alzano Imperial Magic Academy. But Glenn Radars is nowhere near as incompetent as he seems.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 80192978 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where lewdness is outlawed, the son of a crude terrorist becomes a conflicted freedom fighter for the erotic insurgent group known as SOX.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 80214725 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Suddenly, they’re all cute little high school students. For these adventurers drawn from multiple worlds, this might be the strangest otherworld yet.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81092447 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With her waistline slowly expanding, high schooler Sakura Hibiki decides to join the gym. But can she fit in among all the hardcore athletes?

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81143618 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb