Spy High is a school for spies.
Officially it is known as Deveraux Academy. As we are told in an introduction, it "is not what it see: The football team practicing beside the ivy-covered dormitory is merely a hologram, and the elderly receptionist could break your neck in three seconds flat. Deveraux's students rarely call the school by its proper name. They call it Spy High."
The activities that we are allowed to follow all take place, according to another blurb, "sixty years from now" in an area "north of Boston". It is there that the Academy sits on a tract of land "larger than Rhode Island" but do not expect to be able to go visit the place of higher learning; if you are not specifically invited, you are not welcome.
"The school was founded by Jonathan Deveraux, one of the wealthiest men in the world, and that he is rumoured to live on the premises but hasn't been seen in the flesh for fifteen years. They know that the school is so exclusive, so select, that not even the sons of Presidents or the daughters of rock stars can get in. They know that the College's literature talks of the 'exceptionally talented', but exceptionally talented at what? Nothing more is revealed. Ultimately, all people really know is where the college is and what it looks like. But only from the outside."
The adventures that we follow are those of a select group of Spy High students organized into a team. Teams are named after popular fictional spies: James Bond, Harry Palmer, Richard Hannay, and Napoleon Solo. The team we specifically follow is the 'Bond Team'. This group of six teenagers is expected to behave just like all the teams that came before it, as a team and highly efficient at completing its missions. Unfortunately, when we join them, there is disharmony among the ranks, starting with the competition between the elected leader and another member, both alpha males, which is fracturing the group and likely pushing them to failure. As time goes by, this works itself out.
The members of Bond Team are:
Benjamin T. Stanton: Codename Benjamin White - blue-eyed, short blond hair, handsome, way too cocky, way too rich. American. He is initially the team leader.
Lori Angel: Codename Angel Blue - long blond hair and blue eyes, very pretty. Canadian.
Jake Daly: Codename Jake Black - an intense individual with "a tangle of black hair" and dark eyes, he has "savage instincts" but not homicidal.
Jennifer Chen: no known Codename - long dark hair and green eyes. American. Of Chinese descent, she is the best martial artist in the group.
Calista Cross: Codename Calista Green - brown dreadlocks and green eyes, black skin. American.
Edward Nelligan: Codename Edward Red - bright red hair. Irish. Typically the class clown.
Rebecca 'Bex' Deveraux: Codename Agent Orange - joined the team under an alias to hide the fact she is the founder's daughter. Has multicolored hair and a good number of piercings.