A wizarding school was an educational institution which provides magical instruction to young witches and wizards. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the British wizarding school. The massive castle has extensive grounds with 142 staircases, which are known to move around. Beauxbatons Academy has a preponderance of French students. Situated somewhere in the Pyrenees, the breathtaking beauty of the chateau is surrounded by formal gardens created out of the mountainous landscape by magic. Durmstrang once had the darkest reputation of all eleven wizarding schools. Visitors, who must comply with memory charms to erase their knowledge of how they got there, speak of vast, sprawling grounds with many stunning views. As might be expected of a school part-founded by a No-Maj, Ilvermorny has the reputation of being one of the most democratic, least elitist of all the great wizarding schools.