Despite being speketical of this show in the beginning episodes, I decided to watch the full run of them. The start of it was shaky, but over time it did manage to grip me. Though, I believe the msytery was too forced upon and too much entered the light too quickly (That's why I never watched the event. Too much heavy promoting of a "mystery). Still, after the first episodes aired, it actually started to become good. Even better when Alfie and Jermone gained more serious roles. The finale, I'm glad to say was amazing in my own opinion. So in the end, I'm glad I watched this show.
As for those who say it Nick's attempt at copying Tower Prep, it's not. While the two have similar plots (mysterious boarding schools and Tower prep being way better than the other), it is simply a cioncidence I believe. House of Anubis was orignally a TV series in Dutch before it ever came to English audiences. And the press relase of it coming to Nick as the English version was sometime last summer, which is a few months before Tower prep even started airing, though it was more than likely already revealed at the time. So,no it isn't a copy of Tower Prep.