Don’t go into the light just yet — School Spirits has officially been renewed for a third season.
Paramount+ announced the news on Wednesday, March 19, revealing that the hit supernatural teen drama would be returning for season 3 after season 2, which premiered to an average audience of 3.9 million in its first 28 days, saw double-digit increase of +94% from the season 1 premiere.
“We are so thrilled to bring School Spirits back to our devoted audiences for another season of masterful storytelling brought to life by Peyton List and the incredible cast,” Shauna Phelan, Head of Live Action Scripted Series and Film for Awesomeness and Nickelodeon, shared in a Wednesday statement.
She continued, “Coshowrunners Oliver Goldstick, Nate Trinrud and Megan Trinrud have an exceptional ability to capture the complexity and nuance of the teen experience, while also keeping audiences on their toes with the unexpected mystery, and we can’t wait to see what’s in store for the students of Split River High next season.”
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The show, which is produced by Awesomeness TV, was created by the Trinrud siblings, who also serve as executive producers and coshowrunners with Goldstick. Series star List also serves as a producer.
Season 1, which premiered in 2023, followed List’s Maddie, a high school student who embarked on an investigation about her own mysterious disappearance from the afterlife. Season 2 saw Maddie still stuck in the afterlife — with new knowledge of what happened to her — and on a mission to unite her friends, both living and dead, to help reclaim her stolen life and solve the mysteries of Split River. Milo Manheim, Kristian Ventura, Spencer MacPherson, Kiara Pichardo, Sarah Yarkin, Nick Pugliese, Rainbow Wedell and Josh Zuckerman also star.
“I think the big thing is there’s still a lot of mystery left to uncover — not just Split River High but Split River,” Nate exclusively told Us Weekly of the season 2 finale in February. “Something is going on in this town and I think we see in that big culmination as Maddie’s making that run, whatever they did in those scars, did something to the school. We watch Xavier and Claire and Nicole see it lighting up.Something happened that night.”
Natete called the end of season 2, in which — spoiler alert — Maddie jumped back into her living body, a “moment of discovery.”
“We’ve got people who are finally uniting and who know more than we did before,” he explained. “And when you come equipped with information and you band together, big discoveries can happen.”
He added, “The show poses a big question, which is, ‘What would you do if you were in this situation?. How would you react if you had to deal with this crazy thing? And so we’re quite literally dropping the audience into issues of these characters to have to feel all of those big feelings.”
The first two seasons of School Spirits are now streaming on Paramount+.
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