There are a total of seven different schools within Wizard101. The schools are as follows, Fire, Ice, Lighting, Death, Life, Myth, and lastly Balance. You can complete a test at the beginning of a characters creation
to determines its school or you can choose which school they are in. Some schools specialize in different aspects of combat, such as Myth being able to summon allies to help them fight, and Death with its lifesteal.

Each school has differnet spells that are unlocked the higher the characters level is. Every level also give you a training point which are used to unlock the spells of other schools. However some spells can only be obtained
through quest given by the schools professor, this stops all other characters that are not apart of that school from getting the spell and multiple spells in each school can only be obtained via quests.