I love the trope where the MC is just going to school doing their thing while their hiding a really big secret. Either MC is actually the heir to an influential family or living a double life of crime or justice, just something in that essence.
I highly prefer having a female main character but it's not required.
by xauyein
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Not a female MC but The Will of the Many by James Islington.
A noble in hiding, living in a system where the powerful steal the strength of the lower classes, he doesn’t want to be part of this nonsense so cuts a deal with a senator to investigate the murder of the senators brother at the premiere academy for prospective senators and such.
It’s a very cool book and ticks more or less all your boxes, school, influential families, secret identities, he’s living a life of crime (by concealing his true identity) whilst looking to serve justice to those who wronged his adoptive senator “dad”.