New Century Class
The New Century Class was the first School batch of the 21st Century, based within a School facility on the northwestern side of Alola's Poni Island. Sometime in mid-2001, six Schoolchildren, the Iridum who would one day be known as Chiyo amongst them, attempted a breakout from the School and succeeded, but at the cost of their Gallium's life. While escaping they would then all go their separate ways because as a group, they were simply too big a target to be ignored by the School. Sometime after, Diamond, the Carbon of the batch, managed to escape as well despite the best efforts of Adelinde the Scythe.
The Boron of the Class eventually became an Alumnus, but was killed by Chiyo in 2006, while their Curium succumbed to complications of GI cancer caused by her creation in 2011.
Diamond mentioned to Chiyo and her group upon their reunion in 2022 that he attempted to show the way to escape to the remaining members of their Batch, but whether or not anyone else managed to escape and survive into the 2020s outside of himself or Chiyo's group remains unknown. It is likely, however, that including the five known surviving escapees only a handful remain as of 2022 between Templar liquidation and the Curse.
Organization
The Class was comprised of 114 Schoolchildren, all based within the Poni facility under the watch of a School scientist known by the nickname Dr. No Heart and his Templar second Brad the Freeshooter, among others. The conditions were particularly harsh, even by School standards, due to No Heart's experiments, which was a likely reason why Chiyo, Zee, Chloe, Abe, Gallium, and Curium tried escaping a relatively short time after their decanting.
Known New Century Class Schoolchildren
†= Deceased
