Escape Academy 2 Back 2 School: All 50 Red Herring Locations

Escape Academy 2 Back 2 School

Escape Academy 2 Back 2 School hides 50 red herrings around its campus. They turn up in dorm rooms, labs, studios, rooftops, rivers, and along the beach, and some of them sit in places you can’t reach until later in the story.

Where to Find All 50 Red Herrings

The locations are split into five areas of the map:

  • Headmaster’s Tower
  • Sciences Campus
  • Humanities Campus
  • Arts Campus
  • Other: the Quad, the Gardens, and the Beach

Not every herring is available on a fresh save. Use each area below as a checklist, with a short location note and a screenshot for every fish.

Headmaster’s Tower

  1. In your dorm room, on the pile of laundry you never wash during the game.
Red herring on a laundry basket in the dorm room
  1. In the hideout under the stairs in the main tower courtyard.
Red herring on barrels in the hideout under the stairs
  1. Inside the sandwich of the student shown below. Just take it.
Red herring in a student's sandwich on a cafeteria table
  1. Buy it from the cafeteria counter, the same place you get the milk for the purfessor.
Cafeteria counter where the red herring is sold
  1. In the second-floor lobby, on the right side of the stairs. A plaque on the wall holds a large red herring.
Plaque with a large red herring on the lobby wall
  1. On a bookshelf to the right of the headmaster’s door.
Red herring on a bookshelf next to the headmaster's door
  1. In a vending machine in the stairwell on the way down to the detention center (the puzzle dungeon).
Red herring inside a vending machine in the stairwell
  1. In the nurse’s station, next to the bed you respawn at.
Red herring on a shelf beside the nurse's station bed
  1. Once you have access to the ziplines, go to the top of the tower. This herring is impaled up there.
Red herring impaled on the spire at the top of the tower

Sciences Campus

  1. In a tree pot next to the dumpsters.
Red herring in a tree pot near the dumpsters
  1. Under Nugget’s nest. Picking it up can take a few tries.
Red herring under Nugget's nest in the chicken coop
  1. In the chemistry lab, behind the spill.
Red herring behind the spill in the chemistry lab
  1. Just outside the biology lab, near the door that needs 12 puzzle pieces. It’s hiding under a pipe.
Red herring under a pipe outside the biology lab
  1. Under the rear entrance of the puzzle factory.
Red herring under the rear entrance of the puzzle factory
  1. In a vent close to the leaky pipes extra credit quest.
Vent near the leaky pipes quest with a red herring inside
  1. Inside the weather tower, on the shelf right behind Belini.
Red herring on a shelf inside the weather tower
  1. In the back corner of the incinerator structure, next to Jacob Spumoni.
Red herring in the back corner of the incinerator structure
  1. Under the entrance platform of Quanty’s old lab.
Red herring under the entrance platform of Quanty's old lab
  1. Behind Quanty’s lab, by the wall along the path.
Red herring by the path wall behind Quanty's lab
  1. Behind the big red crates.
Red herring behind the big red crates
  1. On top of the wind turbine platform.
Red herring on the wind turbine platform

Humanities Campus

  1. In the library, on the right side, on top of a shelf above the ladder.
Library shelves with a ladder on the right side
  1. On the opposite (left) side of the library, tucked in the corner.
Corner on the left side of the library
  1. In the lecture hall, at the front of the class.
Red herring on a chair at the front of the lecture hall
  1. Outside the library, on the windowsill by the gazebo.
Red herring on a library windowsill by the gazebo
  1. Under the front desk of the museum.
Red herring under the museum front desk
  1. On the roof of the news building. You can get up there from the back of the building.
Red herring in a crate on the news building roof
  1. In the cipher center, on the second floor, inside an artifact bin.
Red herring in an artifact bin in the cipher center
  1. Outside the greenhouse, in the left garden, standing among the flowers.
Red herring standing among the flowers in the garden
  1. Near the Founder’s Fountain, under one of the arches.
Red herring in the water under an arch near the Founder's Fountain
  1. Across the river, past the log near the gazebo.
Red herring on the riverbank past the log near the gazebo

Arts Campus

  1. On the second floor of the first arts campus section, on a trash can near the tunnel entrance.
Red herring on a trash can near the tunnel entrance
  1. On the shelf in the theatre department.
Red herring on a shelf in the theatre department
  1. In the costume department, under the central table.
Red herring under the central table in the costume department
  1. In the dance studio.
Red herring in the dance studio
  1. In the eel museum in the upper arts campus, behind the eel tank.
Red herring behind the eel tank in the eel museum
  1. In the music studio, on a shelf to the right.
Red herring on a shelf in the music studio
  1. In the music studio, behind the piano.
Red herring behind the piano in the music studio
  1. In the art studio, on the office chair.
Red herring on the office chair in the art studio
  1. In a fountain in the upper arts campus, near the door that needs 80 puzzle pieces.
Red herring in a fountain in the upper arts campus

Other Areas

Quad

  1. Behind the trash can near the main entrance to the quad.
Red herring behind a trash can near the quad entrance
  1. In the bushes behind the clown extra credit quest.
Red herring in the bushes behind the clown quest

Gardens

  1. Behind the outdoor stage area.
Red herring behind the outdoor stage area
  1. In the river by the arrow extra credit quest.
Red herring in the river near the arrow quest
  1. On the road up to the riddle box, to the left of the log.
Red herring on the path up to the riddle box
  1. Somewhere inside the hedge maze.
Red herring in a corner of the hedge maze
  1. On the big rock overlooking the outdoor stage.
Red herring on the big rock above the outdoor stage

Beach

  1. On the left side of the beach, hidden in the rocks.
Red herring by the rocks on the left side of the beach
  1. In the lifeguard tower, next to Quanty.
Lifeguard tower with Quanty's screen and a red herring
  1. On the right side of the docks, in a bucket.
Red herring in a bucket on the docks