Location from enders-game by Orson Scott Card
An orbital space station where gifted children are trained for war against the Formics — the most sophisticated child soldier factory in human history, disguised as a school.
Battle School is the International Fleet's answer to the Formic threat: take the brightest children on Earth, ages six to fourteen, and train them in zero-gravity combat, strategic thinking, and command under pressure. The curriculum includes military strategy, the Mind Game (a psychological evaluation tool disguised as a video game), and Battle Room competitions between armies of forty soldiers. The system is deliberately cruel. Children are isolated from family. Promotions are rapid and arbitrary. The teachers manipulate friendships, rivalries, and conflicts to produce commanders who can think independently under impossible conditions. Graff's specific treatment of Ender — ensuring his isolation, accelerating his promotion, engineering crises — is the system at its most extreme. At least 650 students at any time. They develop their own slang from diverse linguistic backgrounds, speak IF Common. The brightest graduate to Tactical, Navigational, or Support schools. The very best go to Command School. After the war, it was converted to Fleet School.
Three rotating rings at Earth's L5 Lagrange Point — 350m diameter, 33m wide, providing artificial gravity. One ring for student barracks and armies, one for administrators. Metal walls, recycled air, fluorescent lighting. Nine Battle Rooms cycle past entrances every half hour. Cold, institutional, designed for function over comfort.
Also known as: Battle School, The School