I do love this RP and am loathe to lose it but can see your point

I think that a lot of the problems are probably coming from the classes nowadays, they worked well in the beginning but now we've exhausted every idea of what to do in them so people (or at least I feel this way) don't get so excited or inspired when it comes to RPing them, plus often a fair number of the characters are made useless while others are doing whatever activity 

That's my two cents at least, however it's not a solution. We either would have to think up new classes/different school structure or admit defeat. Whilst most of the more interesting events are happening outside the academy I can't see how the RP would work without the academy at its core...

EDIT: I definitely am willing to help keep it going if others are on board though