School's Out

"Monster High welcomes our new ghouls."

- Narration in the School's Out commercial.

The 'School's Out' doll line is a nameless doll line featuring several characters in non-themed, day-to-day outfits. The line was released mid-to-late 2011 and is an extension of the in 2010 started core line, which is what causes the line's namelessness. Fans have picked up the name School's Out to distinguish the line's dolls from others, in particular the preceding Basic line. The characters featured in the School's Out line are Frankie Stein, Draculaura, Clawdeen Wolf, Lagoona Blue, Cleo de Nile, Clawd Wolf, Abbey Bominable and Spectra Vondergeist.

To emphasize, School's Out and Basic are the very same line. School's Out is essentially Basic v2, but because several characters are shared between the two incarnations of the same line, fans have picked up separate names to distinguish between those dolls. This then affects the dolls unique to either incarnation, because of the timeframe and marketing between them. School's Out was picked up as the fans' name for the incarnation/line due to a caption under one of the first photos of it found.

A way to tell which dolls belong to the Basic and which to the School's Out line is to look at the back of the box and see what other dolls are promoted on it. There are two exceptions to this method though: Holt Hyde and Toralei Stripe. Holt was the last Basic, preceding School's Out by just a few months. As such, his box originally advertised the Basic dolls, but when School's Out came around, his box was modified to advertise the School's Out dolls. Since the doll remained the same, he is considered a Basic only. As for Toralei, her box only promotes two dolls that have yet to be released, arguably making her part of a yet-to-be-defined third incarnation of the core line. For now, the wiki lists her as a Basic-by-default.

A notable difference between School's Out and Basic is that the dolls of the School's Out line wear more clothing. This is due to complaints raised about the Basic line by many adults, who feel the dolls were dressed too skimpy. Mattel took note of these complaints and designed outfits that cover up better for the School's Out line.

The School's Out line received one commercial, which paid special attention to the releases of Abbey, Spectra, Clawd and Draculaura, the latter since she was sold with Clawd in a 2-pack. In the webisodes, the School's Out outfits have only shown up once, during the first party in "Fright On!". This is in spite of the line's intention to be the new default look for the characters, who proceed to be drawn in their Basic outfits normally.