Zoey Brooks and her younger brother, Dustin are new students at Pacific Coast Academy (PCA), an elite boarding school in California. While there, Zoey meets Chase Matthews, a friendly guy with high hopes of getting a girlfriend. Chase leads Zoey to her dorm, where she meets Nicole Bristow, a savvy girl who is easily attracted to hot boys, and Dana Cruz, a tomboy who does not accept diversity. A boy named Logan Reese challenges the girls to a basketball match. Logan picks his team, which includes Chase and Michael Barrett, another friendly guy who is willing to accept a challenge. Zoey chooses her team, which includes Nicole, Dana, and Quinn Pensky, a meddlesome scientist who is always inventing wacky items. The girls lose the basketball game by one point, prompting Logan to tease them. The coach of the basketball team then asks Zoey and Dana if they want to join the basketball team because they helped the most. Zoey accepts, while Dana says she will "think about it."

Zoey's roommates, Nicole and Dana, do not get along and fight every day, which drives Zoey crazy. Once Zoey tells them how annoying they are, they go against Zoey and all three of them are not friends anymore. Zoey decides to move in with Quinn, but soon finds her constant testing experiments bothering. Since Nicole and Dana are not her friends and Quinn is strange to be around with, Zoey starts hanging out with Chase. Zoey and Chase plan on watching a movie. Logan keeps on telling Chase that he is in love with Zoey and should try getting her away from making up with Nicole and Dana. As the movie rolls around, Zoey has already become friends with Nicole and Dana and the movie date, meant for 2, becomes a movie date of 4. Meanwhile, after spending all his money on gummy worms, Dustin is trying to find a way to earn money. He tries tutoring students how to speak Spanish only to fail miserably as Dustin hardly knows Spanish. In the end, he succeeds in earning money by playing guitar and sing his own song, "Gummy Worm Blues."

Zoey and the other girls are in the girls lounge playing a game called Confess or Stress, where a player must either tell a secret or do a dare. Chase and Logan visit the lounge during the game, and while there, Logan gives the girls a huge teddy bear. Logan then decides to "rest" in his dorm because he is not feeling well. The next day, the girls' personal secrets are being heard all over campus, with new secrets coming out as more days pass. Soon, Zoey gets blamed by the other girls for revealing their secrets. In putting a stop to all this, Zoey, Quinn and Nicole check the bear Logan gave them, which has been in the lounge ever since, and discover it has a webcam inside it. Zoey asks Chase if he is part of this scheme, which he denies. The two become aware that Logan has been spying on the girls after looking on his laptop. To catch Logan in the act, the girls give him something to watch, which leads him to tell Dean Rivers about it. In the end, Logan gets in trouble and loses his job at Sushi Rox for faking his sick time.

Dustin has a run-in with a school bully after helping him in class.

The girls decide to get even with the boys after falling victim to their pranks, but Zoey's prank puts all the girls at PCA in danger of being expelled.

The kids at PCA are assigned to make a TV commercial for a new scooter.

Chase writes a play about an alien girl with Zoey as the lead, but gets severely flustered of when Logan gets the part of her would-be earthly boyfriend instead of him. Meanwhile, Dustin gets sick and Quinn tries to treat his ailments with some of her usual unconventional methods.

Quinn develops a crush on a boy named Mark, but when Zoey finds out that Mark's not interested, she takes it upon herself to organize a fake "date" between the two.

The girls join the 'Spring Fling' planning committee and try to get a celebrity to to perform at the event.

Zoey's prototype backpack gets stolen by a PCA bookstore employee, Stacy, and the whole school goes crazy over 'Stacy's' backpack design.

In an attempt to get out of gym class, the kids expose a loophole in PCA policy and form a Disc Golf team.

The kids of PCA learn that the dates for the school dance will be determined by a personality test. What will happen when Dana ends up paired with Logan, Zoey is caught between two guys who cheated in the test, and Nicole is paired with a guy perkier than she is?

Zoey and her friends can't wait for the beach party that PCA is throwing. But, due to Quinn's experiment, everyone gets knocked out and wakes up late. Even after missing the bus, Zoey is determined to get to the party. What could go wrong?

Zoey and Nicole return to PCA for the second year. But they soon find out Dana will not be returning, and a very strange roommate, Lola, has come to take her place. The year gets to a bad start for Chase and Michael, because of Logan's very loud gifts from his dad.

A time capsule project is presented to Zoey and her friends. Each one of them must contribute something that represents them. Zoey makes a DVD explaining what each of her friends means to her. Chase can't wait for 20 years, so he decides to dig up the capsule with a very tired Michael.

As a joke, Chase and Zoey nominate each other to run for class president, even though neither one really wants to win -- until the campaign heats up.

This Halloween, Logan is in charge of making the haunted house.

Dustin's new science partner is PCA troublemaker Trisha Kirby, who much to his delight decides to declare him her boyfriend. When Zoey finds out about this new relationship, she drafts Chase into trying to break them up. In the process of doing so, Chase inadvertently causes her to turn her affections towards him instead, placing him in a love triangle with Dustin, and forcing Zoey and Chase to examine true nature of their own friendship.

Chase and Michael get a big break on their webcast show when Zoey and Logan join the cast.

Zoey gets upset when Logan rats her and her friends out for hanging out on the guys' roof. Logan also tells Zoey that boys act differently around girls. Zoey wants to prove to Logan that boys and girls can act normal around each other by having Lola dress up as a boy and room with Chase and Logan. Meanwhile, Michael deals with trying to escape from the nurse's office.

Zoey and her friends challenge some stuck-up computer geeks to a robot battle, and recruit Quinn for her expertise. It seems that a win is guaranteed until she overhears Logan making fun of her behind her back, and quits the team. With nobody to help them build their robot, the kids are forced to ask the smartest boy in the school for help, who will only do so on the condition that Nicole goes on a date with him.

Chase agrees to tutor Lola in biology. They have a good time together, and Lola realizes she has a crush on Chase. When she asks him out, Chase is conflicted about what to do because of his feelings for Zoey. Also, Zoey suddenly gets jealous when she finds out, even though she told Lola that she and Chase are just friends. Meanwhile, Logan tries to teach Dustin about how to get a girl to like you, which takes a lot of work.

The gang is invited to Logan's dad's mansion for spring break, only to find out they are being used for testing a new reality show called "Gender Defenders." Now it's boys against girls and, when Chase accidentally sends a text message to Zoey proclaiming his true feelings for her, they start to wonder if it's Spring Break or Spring Bummer.

Sushi Rox, one of the most popular restaurants in PCA, catches fire and hits the ground. Zoey doesn't want to go on knowing Kazu, the owner of the restaurant, is heartbroken and really loved working there. So, she puts on a People Auction, having her and her friends do various chores to help raise money for Sushi Rox.

It's halfway through the semester at PCA's second year of being an boys and girls school. But when Quinn's alpaca, Otis, becomes depressed, she wants to leave PCA.

New students attend PCA and have an opportunity to find out about their new school. The new students take turns in asking Chase and Zoey questions as they reflect on their memories during their time at PCA.

In an attempt to get out of gym class, the kids expose a loophole in PCA policy and form a Disc Golf team.

The kids at PCA are assigned to make a TV commercial for a new scooter.

This Halloween, Logan is in charge of making the haunted house.

As a joke, Chase and Zoey nominate each other to run for class president, even though neither one really wants to win -- until the campaign heats up.

Zoey Brooks and her younger brother, Dustin are new students at Pacific Coast Academy (PCA), an elite boarding school in California. While there, Zoey meets Chase Matthews, a friendly guy with high hopes of getting a girlfriend. Chase leads Zoey to her dorm, where she meets Nicole Bristow, a savvy girl who is easily attracted to hot boys, and Dana Cruz, a tomboy who does not accept diversity. A boy named Logan Reese challenges the girls to a basketball match. Logan picks his team, which includes Chase and Michael Barrett, another friendly guy who is willing to accept a challenge. Zoey chooses her team, which includes Nicole, Dana, and Quinn Pensky, a meddlesome scientist who is always inventing wacky items. The girls lose the basketball game by one point, prompting Logan to tease them. The coach of the basketball team then asks Zoey and Dana if they want to join the basketball team because they helped the most. Zoey accepts, while Dana says she will "think about it."

It's halfway through the semester at PCA's second year of being an boys and girls school. But when Quinn's alpaca, Otis, becomes depressed, she wants to leave PCA.

Chase and Michael get a big break on their webcast show when Zoey and Logan join the cast.

The kids of PCA learn that the dates for the school dance will be determined by a personality test. What will happen when Dana ends up paired with Logan, Zoey is caught between two guys who cheated in the test, and Nicole is paired with a guy perkier than she is?

Zoey and Nicole return to PCA for the second year. But they soon find out Dana will not be returning, and a very strange roommate, Lola, has come to take her place. The year gets to a bad start for Chase and Michael, because of Logan's very loud gifts from his dad.

The girls join the 'Spring Fling' planning committee and try to get a celebrity to to perform at the event.