Students

The students at Yandere-chan's school, Akademi High School, are NPCs that come to the school every day, except during the weekends. They all follow a specific movement pattern, except for Yandere-chan (the player character), Info-chan (not implemented yet), Rival-chan (incomplete interaction), the placeholder nurse (incomplete interaction), Phantom Girl (a ghost), and Midori Gurin (incomplete routine).

Routine
This is the daily routine of all NPC students as of the November 15, 2015 Update (except for those aforementioned NPCs who don't have a routine yet):


 * 1) Walk into the school.
 * 2) Stand by the lockers (in reality, they are changing from outdoor shoes to indoor shoes, but no animations are available yet ).
 * 3) Move to the plaza, the roof, club activities, or the Computer Lab.
 * 4) Go to their assigned class.
 * 5) Go to the cafeteria, the club rooms, or the rooftop. The students that go to the gossip area are supposed to eat, but there are no satisfactory eating animations yet.
 * 6) Go back to class.
 * 7) Stand by the locker once more (to switch from indoor shoes to outdoor shoes).
 * 8) Leave the school, go to club activities, or go to the Computer Lab.

Yandere-chan can interact with most of the students. In the future, they will also react when she bumps into them. If a student's face is sent to Info-chan, she will give you their name, club (if they are in one), persona, possible crushes, strength, and any possible additional information. Info-chan will not give Yandere-chan information on Senpai, Rival-chan, the placeholder nurse, or herself. There will most likely be at least 90 students in the full game if YandereDev can manage it. NPCs will be 99% Japanese with similar skin tones.

Main Characters

 * Main Article: Main Characters

Rivals

 * Main Article: Rivals

'''Note: Not all rivals have made their appearances yet. Some only have concept art available for portraits. Others that have been added to the game are not complete (either in routine or appearance) and are subject to change before the final build.'''

Females
All females have the same eye shape as Yandere-chan because the female student models are reused. Currently, most females have a Loner persona, plus a few with the Heroic persona.

Males
All males have the same eye shape as Senpai because the male student models are reused. Currently, most males have the Teacher's Pet persona. Students in the Martial Arts Club (with the exception of Juku Ren) have the Heroic persona, while students in the Occult Club (with the exception of Daku Atsu) have the Loner persona.

Easter Eggs

 * Main Article: Easter Eggs

Several students in Yandere Simulator are Easter Eggs.

Former Students

 * Main Article: 1980s Mode

Former students from the 1980's. They are all adults (except Phantom Girl) but they still play an important role in Yandere Simulator.

Removed Students

 * Main Article: Removed Content

The deleted students, Victim-chan and Witness-chan, can be seen in the JSON file of some old updates (from March 1st, 2015 to April 8th, 2015) and also in "How To Get Away With Murder In Yandere Simulator" video.

It was impossible to meet both of them in the game because they were already removed when the update build was released.

Upcoming Students
These students are coming in future versions of the game.

Kuudere Simulator

 * Main Article: Kuudere Simulator

These playable students both appear in Kuudere Simulator. Kuudere-chan eventually became a student in Yandere Simulator, named Kuu Dere.

Hypothetical Students

 * There may be a Kickstarter reward allowing a fan to make a student to be implemented into the official game.
 * There will be at least one exchange student, but their nationality has not been decided yet. They'll most likely be American so the student can be a comically exaggerated American stereotype..
 * It may be possible for the player to add their own students in the future.
 * There will be one character in Yandere Simulator who YandereDev has always envisioned as someone who tortures animals. It is not Yandere-chan.
 * In addition, there will be one Mary Sue/absolutely perfect student. YandereDev has not revealed whether she is a rival or not.
 * If YandereDev could make a student based on himself, he would make a student that is in the Gaming Club, a Loner, and has no crush, unless he added a student who resembles his favorite video game character. Still, he has no desire to put himself in-game.
 * YandereDev will only make parodies of characters that he cares or knows about. DelinquientHair.png
 * Rival-chan's appearance might be in the full game.
 * There will be a gang of delinquent characters who willingly interact with you if your reputation is low enough.
 * There may be a student that looks like YandereDev, but is the complete opposite of him otherwise.
 * YandereDev would love to include a gothic lolita character or a ganguro character.

Trivia

 * Students with something noteworthy about them (such as rivals and Easter Egg students) might have ironic names.
 * Students in a group may murmur or chatter together if you walk by them in the future.
 * There actually is a reason why the students will still come to school when they know there is a serial killer on the loose, but YandereDev has not released this information yet. It may be because in Japanese culture, getting a good education and upholding your family reputation is very important.
 * In very early debug builds, all students were recolors of Yandere-chan's model, with the only difference being the hair and eye color (light blue). Before students had names, they were all named "Student-chan" within the game code. They were given different hair colors in the February 15th, 2015 Update. Five corpses of "Student-chan" can still be seen in the title screen.
 * YandereDev quickly makes students by modifying lines on a XML sheet and exporting the XML as a JSON file. Within the game engine, however, he has to place all physical destinations of where a student has to go. In the future, the game will automatically assign students' destinations.
 * There will be some comic relief moments in the full version of Yandere Simulator, during particular NPC conversations.
 * Some boys in school are very big perverts, as they buy panty shots from Info-chan.
 * On September 19th, 2015, YandereDev stated that all of the female hairstyles were created by modifying Yandere-chan's hair. The male hairstyles were invented by their modeler. This is no longer true now that Druelbozo from DeviantArt, a person credited by YandereDev, has created multiple female hairstyles.
 * In the future, two "special" NPCs that are popular among fans may enter a relationship.
 * The protagonist may be able to distract students with small firecrackers in the full game.
 * As of the September 20th, 2015 Build, students' clothes, hair, and animation codes are not active when Yandere-chan is far away. This is to improve frame rate.
 * The names of the first five male and five female characters (not including Student-chan) are the most popular Japanese given names of 2012.
 * Pippi and Ryuto will be the only rhythm game references in Yandere Simulator.
 * Some students will stay after school at the end of the day to clean up classrooms, but there are no animations for this yet.
 * An anime called Magical Girl Miyuki will be popular among students, and may talk about it occasionally. "Did you see last night's episode of Magical Girl Miyuki?"
 * YandereDev stated that he might even add a magical girl in the game for fun.
 * Students will have an age of "???". It may be this way due to the fact that 16-18 year old students seen naked may be called "child porn."
 * Koharu Hinata is the only person not in the Martial Arts Club to have a Heroic personality.
 * Budo Masuta is the only fully programmed NPC who doesn't appear to be scared at low School Atmosphere.
 * Juku Ren is the only person in the Martial Arts Club to have a Teacher's Pet persona.
 * Daku Atsu is the only person in the Occult Club to have a Teacher's Pet persona.
 * YandereDev has stated that a Japanese teacher told him nobody at school would be openly "LGBT" and only "come out" after graduating.
 * YandereDev "has some plans for students who act as amateur 'investigative journalists'".
 * In the future, it's possible that if Yandere-chan gets too popular, some students will stalk her and murders would thus always have witnesses.