El Segundo Academy

El Segundo Academy was a "cult school" ran by Aurora Silver. It is the focus of the extra content site What Happened At El Segundo.

Background
El Segundo was a "pseudo-therapeutic, borderline militaristic boarding school" in California. It was founded by Gertrude Edgeworth and experienced several scandals surrounding the discipline used within the school. This discipline apparently included solitary confinement, hard manual labor, and getting their heads shaved.

2001-2003
Between 2001 and 2002, the number of students at ESA went from 97 to 46. All the girls were moved into two 20-person dorms, and the overcrowding led to more fighting among the student body. A girl named Elizabeth Hook, a former ESA student, was discovered in the Tahoe National Forest by a sophomore from ESA. Her boyfriend, a cocaine dealer named Louis Van Straaten, was charged with her murder.

In September, the music department was flooded unexpectedly, seeing as there was no body of water that could have done the flooding. In October, 27 students were trapped in Meredith dormitory by over 30 wild foxes. Police were called, but the foxes dispesed when an unknown student walked through the circle unharmed.

April 3rd 2003
On April 3rd 2003 (exactly thirteen years after the disappearance of Lily Martin, as said in Asterion.