Where Is Herrington High School in 'The Faculty'?

The 1998 Miramax movie 'The Faculty' was filmed in Austin, Lockhart, and San Marcos, Texas

Put "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "The Thing," and "The Breakfast Club" in an aquarium, and you get "The Faculty," a clever take on the teen slasher flick that was all the rage in the post-"Scream" 1990s.

Unlike movies of its generation, "The Faculty's" baddies are not of this earth. It came from outer space!

 
Herrington High, the school where it is set, is only one letter away from reality. There's actually a Herington High in Kansas; the film was actually shot in Texas (Lockhart High School and Austin's Texas School for the Deaf provided the exterior and interior shots, respectively). There's even an international school named Herrington in Cambodia. 

While those schools might definitely have an alien or two, i.e., expats and exchange students (duh), there's a good chance they have not been invaded by extraterrestrials like their movie counterparts. 

Then again, we're living in what believers call the Age of Disclosure, and if UFO incidents were to be believed, ETs have already been to school. 

Among the most convincing ones happened in Zimbabwe. On September 16, 1994, children witnessed a silvery craft land during recess at Ariel School in Ruwa. Was this a case of mass hallucination or an elaborate hoax? We'll never know, but 60 children surely couldn't be making up stuff and stand by that story as adults decades later, right? 

There's a case to be made for children being the most credible witnesses to strange occurrences. Research and forensic data often show that children rarely fabricate traumatic incidents or abuse. 

And that leads us to an even older incident on the other side of the globe. On April 6, 1966, students and teachers at Westall State School and Westall High School in Melbourne reported seeing a flying saucer above schoolgrounds. Anywhere from 200 to 300 people saw the object, making it Australia's biggest UFO sighting. 

On a smaller scale, but no less believable, is the incident that happened at Broad Haven Primary School in Wales in 1977. Pupils saw a disc land near the playground, and they were able to sketch, separately, what they saw with surprising accuracy. 

Obviously, these close encounters were not of the parasitic kind like "The Faculty." A few of them were more benign than disturbing, with the Ariel School students even receiving telepathic messages from the visitors about shepherding this planet for the greater good. 

Which brings us to ask: Is there a watery planet with "Faculty-like" aliens out there?