The Rocco Laurie School for the Gifted, appearing in ANGEL, is the name of the facility where Gen77 kids are housed and taught.
Jeb and Dr. Gunther-Hagen asked Max to go there to meet the children she would one day lead. It was about a twenty-minute flight away from Dr. Martinez's house. However, the plane was cut apart by floating wires and crashed.
The encrypted information on Ella’s phone includes photos and floor plans for the building, including a cafeteria.
Located in Arizona, it is surrounded by desert and canyons and is heavily guarded. Floating wires surround it for several miles, cutting apart anything that tries to approach by flight. When Max and Dylan attempt to land on the rooftop, spider-eyed kids in ninja costumes shoot at them.
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- The name of the school was inspired by a real-life location; the dedication of ANGEL mentions I.S. Rocco Laurie of Staten Island, New York. This may have been part of "the Maximum Ride Battle of the Schools," by James Patterson, in which the winner would be written into a future book: "schools around the country competed to be crowned the biggest fan of the Maximum Ride series." Runner-ups were listed at the end of the book.