Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29825054-20160922210645/@comment-4010415-20160922213057

Apparently, combat schools like Signal and Sanctum are a little different from Huntsman Academies. They've said there are several combat schools and four Huntsman Academies. It's been said that students who graduate a combat school can try to get accepted into a Huntsman Academy.

It seemed implied by Weiss that combat school is mostly sparring and practice, while a Huntsman Academy is where students begin actually fighting Grimm. She said something like "This isn't your ordinary combat school, you know! It's not just sparring and practice. We're here to fight monsters."

If I had to guess, combat school is where students forge their weapons, learn how to use them, learn about Aura, have their Aura unlocked, try to find out their Semblance, etc. Maybe they can choose between normal school and combat school and both offer classes on math, science, history, etc. I don't know.