This season again depicts the lives of a group of high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors as they deal with some of the challenges and issues that teenagers face such as homophobia, theft, religion, sexual harassment, dysfunctional families, peer pressure, pregnancy scares, stress, self image, self-injury, suicide, drug use, burglary, parenthood, depression, grief and relationships.

[1] The series' American broadcaster, TeenNick, announced a summer run, following the season 11 finale.

The casting director was Stephanie Gorin, and the editors are Jason B. Irvine, Gordon Thorne, and Paul Whitehead.

Episode writers for the season are Ramona Barckert, Sarah Glinski, Michael Grassi, Lauren Gosnell, Matt Huether, James Hurst, Ian Malone, Shelley Scarrow, Matt Schiller, and Brendon Yorke.

A writer for AfterElton gave the summer block a positive review, saying that it "has easily been the best-written run of Degrassi episodes in several seasons.

[7] Degrassi was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Drama Series category, alongside Grey's Anatomy, The L.A. Complex, True Blood, and winner Smash.

Alli convinces Dallas to give her pills in order to stay awake, but they soon threaten her health and relationships.

Also, when Jake receives no punishment for smoking weed, Clare decides to arrange a family meeting.

A series of events leads the upperclassmen students of Degrassi to a spring break in Las Vegas, where all bets are off.

Guest stars: Hedley as themselves, and Erik Knudsen as Darrin Howe, inventor of FaceRange, Facebook in the Degrassi universe As a new semester begins, Cam grows insecure of his relationship with Maya.

With graduation and the future on the horizon, the seniors gather one final time for Prom in an unforgettable celebration where surprises will be made, secrets will be exposed, and some relationships will be called into question.