Sure, January gets a lot of attention, but for anyone in school, September marks the most significant start of the year. This week, students throughout the country are sharpening their pencils and trying to sharpen their summer-softened minds as they plunge into a new school year. Classroom doors and campus gates are flying open again for all grades and higher ed, but when it comes to movies and TV, there are few environments — in the academic realm or any other — quite so ripe for entertainment as the hallways of a high school. 

So, please, take your seats and get ready for roll call! Era-defining comedies are here! Clever (faux) documentaries are here! Scandalous ensemble dramas are present! Check out the full roster below to register for your top back-to-school picks. Happy studying!

But first, what’s new on Netflix?

A little more Nevermore. Season 2, Part 2 of Wednesday has arrived, and with it, the much-awaited rest of the kooky, twisty second chapter in Wednesday Addams’s (Jenna Ortega) school days. Not feeling the woe? Get ready for a knockout with Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford, which takes you into training camp with Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford as they prepare for their highly anticipated boxing match next weekend. Sitting out this round? Fill your weekend with some nostalgic fractured fairy tales: The first five films in the Shrek franchise, 2001’s Shrek, 2004’s Shrek 2, 2007’s Shrek the Third, 2010’s Shrek Forever After, and 2011’s spin-off Puss in Boots have all come questing to the service.

If you have just a night … 

Take a master class from a true scholar of the teen movie. Amy Heckerling made her feature directorial debut in 1982 with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, written by Cameron Crowe, which follows a group of SoCal teens played by an ensemble cast including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, and Sean Penn (in a now-iconic performance as the stoner-surfer Spicoli). More than a decade later, Heckerling redefined the genre for a new generation with 1995’s Clueless, a Beverly Hills–set reimagining of Jane Austen’s Emma, in which the popular and stylish Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) makes over a totally clueless new classmate (Brittany Murphy) and tries her hand at matchmaking for her friends and teachers. 

If you have a whole day … 

Open an investigation. The 2017 mockumentary American Vandal, created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, makes a joke out of the true-crime craze with a hilariously deadpan high school–set satire. Tyler Alvarez and Griffin Gluck star as best friends who launch an investigation into a shocking campus crime: the spray-painting of obscene images on dozens of teachers’ cars. Once you’ve streamed the show’s freshman season, catch the duo’s sophomore investigative effort into the contamination of a batch of cafeteria lemonade. 

If you have the entire weekend … 

Go international. The teen intrigue gets turned all the way up in the Spanish series Elite, created by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona. The show takes place at Las Encinas, a fictional elite private school in Spain, and begins with the arrival of three less affluent transfer students (Itzan Escamilla, Miguel Herrán, and Mina El Hammani) who must find their own places within the school’s tumultuous social order. Over the course of eight seasons (2018–2024), the students pair off, break up, make trouble, commit crimes, and otherwise stir up an outrageous amount of drama.

Don’t forget, you have one last chance … 

For a world of fire and blood. George Miller’s 2015 reboot of the Mad Max franchise, the action opus Mad Max: Fury Road, stars Tom Hardy in the title role as he joins forces with Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa on a perilous journey across a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland. Next week, its trek comes to an end.