At Majesty’s, the students are sorted into their house via a magic Sorting Paintbrush. On their first day at Majesty’s, the student is given a small canvas and instructed to wet the paintbrush and apply it to the canvas. After the student is finished, their canvas is analyzed and they are sorted into the house whose primary pigment shows up most on the canvas.

The houses students are sorted into are based on their primary reasons for creating art. Although there are certain stereotypes about the students of each house, those stereotypes are no more true than most stereotypes ever are.

The House of Leonardo: Their colours are are blue and green. Students placed in Leonardo are ones whose primary reason for creating the art they do is to gain mastery over the established styles of that artform. However, they are no less creative than other students in terms of their subjects. It is a common stereotype that Leonardo students are better leaders and more likely to follow the school rules than students from other houses.
The House of Donatello: Their colours are are purple and green. Students placed in Donatello are ones whose primary reason for creating the art they do is to push the boundaries of that artform. They are often innovators with new techniques and styles and quite often their pieces are avant-garde. It is a common stereotype that Donatello students are more intellectual and better with technology than students from other houses.
The House of Michelangelo: Their colours are are orange and green. Students placed in Michelangelo are ones whose primary reason for creating is because they want to make artwork that pleases themselves. They don’t need any more reason than that. It is a common stereotype than Michelangelo students are friendlier and more laid-back than students from other houses.
The House of Raphael: Their colours are are red and green. Students placed in Raphael are ones whose primary reason for creating the art they do is to use art to send a message. Many of their pieces are political in nature; all of them have something to say to the person viewing (or listening) to them. It is a common stereotype that Raphael students are have hotter tempers and are more intense about their viewpoints than students from other houses.

At Lone Star Academy, students on their first day of school are taken to meet the four school mascots: a wolf, a hawk, a fox, and a bear named Thorn, Ridge, Crest and Glove respectively. These living statues choose the students they wish to reside in the dormitories that bear their names, although they do not tell anyone why. Years of observation, however, seem to indicate that they choose their students by how they respond to impending deadlines, particularly when they’ve previously procrastinated on finishing their projects.

Wolfthorn: Students in Wolfthorn choose to work through the night, forgoing sleep in order to make sure their projects are finished on time.
Hawkridge: Students in Hawkridge choose to work faster and faster the closer they get to a project’s deadline.
Foxcrest: Students in Foxcrest choose to find clever workarounds to make sure their projects are finished on time.
Bearglove: Students in Bearglove choose to recruit other hands to help them finish their projects in time.

At Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen students are assigned dormitories based on their latest academic and artistic evaluations. For students entering the school, their assignment is based on their entrance exam and portfolio review. It is not uncommon for a student to have spent time as part of multiple dormitories over their course of study. Ranked from most prestigious to least, the four dormitories are:

Gojira
Mosura
Ghidra
Gamela