Updated 13 July 2003, 13.31

Kids were so keen to attend the Potter-style classes that both summer courses filled up on the very first day at the school in Wisconsin, USA.

Students get sent an invitation to attend the school, just like the letter Harry receives asking him to go to Hogwarts.

The school also:

• Sorts children into four houses on their first day using a special hat
• Rewards kids by giving them 'points' for their house
• Gives kids a secret password to enter the classrooms
• Teaches them a Quidditch-style game - a mix of baseball, basketball and paper planes

The school is lead by a former teacher in Wisconsin, Kristin Urban, who's a huge Harry Potter fan.

She even gets the kids to study ideas and issues raised in the boy wizard books.

"The kids are fascinated with the idea of magic," she said.

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