Classroom of the Elite Novel Volume 1 features story by Syougo Kinugasa and art by Tomoseshunsaku.

At the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, which aims to produce the country's future leaders, students are given remarkable freedom. However, they also have to deal with a point system that decides one’s place in the school's hierarchy! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to work her way back up to Class A, and Kushida Kikyo, who seems like she only wants to make friends. Can they advance through this school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game?