[5] In the 1990s, Lainey Lewis returns to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania from the West Coast, having seen her dreams of rock 'n roll stardom fizzle out.

As fate would have it, her alma mater William Penn Academy has recently lost its music teacher and Lainey reluctantly accepts an offer to take over the job.

Meanwhile, Coach Mellor struggles to adapt to the changes in sports in the 1990s as Matt, his star basketball player, wants to be like Michael Jordan.

Featured Songs: "Today" by The Smashing Pumpkins, "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch Based on the movie She's All That.

Featured Song: "These Are Days" by 10,000 Maniacs Frustrated with the public domain options for the school musical, Lainey spends her own money so her class can perform Rent.

Coach Mellor gets mad when one of his star football players defects to take a lead role in the play, and he intentionally schedules a pep rally in the auditorium the same day as the performance.

The pair think their lives have been mundane and decide to emulate a ploy similar to that of Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion to impress their former classmates.

Meanwhile, Coach Mellor is dismayed that his protege, Ruben Amaro, Jr. does not reciprocate the same sentiment and considers Principal Glascott his greatest influence during his time at the school.

Featured Songs: "Push" by Matchbox Twenty, "Sirius" by The Alan Parsons Project When a concert that music scouts attend and the school talent show fall on the same night, Lainey must choose between being a teacher and her rock star dreams.

Elsewhere, Glascott's mishandling of the senior prank in full view of a school board auditor has him fearing he will have to step down as principal, but he gets support from a surprising source.

Featured Song: "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers Inspired by the film Dangerous Minds, Lainey thinks she can affect change in the lives of her students, but giving them the number to her "portable" cellular phone starts to backfire.

While talking with Lainey, Coach Mellor professes that he and Miss Cinoman are in a Ross-and-Rachel type relationship and just "on a break", even though it's been seven years since they last dated.

Mellor is hesitant, but after watching the movie himself, he has Toby suit up and runs a "fake Rudy" play in practice to make the kid feel good.

A flu outbreak has Glascott scrambling for substitute teachers, and Lainey is passed over because she hasn't met the state's "minimum competency" requirements to teach academic classes.

However, Mellor is soon heartbroken when Julie tells him she is being made Toby's legal guardian, as Glascott's rules prohibit teachers from dating a parent of any William Penn student.

Elsewhere, the middle schoolers plan to scare the elementary students as they do their annual costume parade through the Academy, because that's what happened to them a few years ago, but C.B.

When Earl Ball pushes Lainey to produce The Lion King for the annual school musical, she feels overwhelming pressure to top the success of Rent from last year.

Mellor tries to stack the deck by bringing in successful William Penn alumni to play for his team, leading to Wilma calling on Rick's brother, Nick (Bill Goldberg).

Also, Lainey learns that Weasel likes singing, and gets him to overcome his fear of backlash from the jocks to perform a song on stage.

Meanwhile, Coach Mellor tries to convince Principal Glascott to hire Toby's Aunt Julie (and his girlfriend) as the new school nurse, in spite of his hesitation over having couples working together.

Glascott decides to recreate the game show Singled Out for a school charity event, with himself as host and Lainey as the contestant.

Upon realizing that Lainey is still committed to make things work with Barry, CB finds it difficult to move on and leave his feelings behind, but he gets support from Wilma and Mellor.

Lainey gets jealous upon hearing Wilma sing much better than she does, and acts out to prevent losing her status as the school's rock star.

Coach Mellor convinces Lainey to take a drive to Altoona and make peace with her estranged mother, Deb (Megyn Price).

Elsewhere, Julie is working toward earning her nurse practitioner certification, and Mellor becomes jealous when he learns her study partner, Leslie, is a man (James Lesure).

However, when Paloma wants to save an endangered bird population that lives right where Mellor plans to build the new baseball stadium, CB has to reach into his old bag of tricks.

However, Mellor and Glascott later find out that Dawn only asked Toby because her parents will approve of him, and she intends to ditch him at prom for her real boyfriend, who's a known troublemaker.

Featured Song: "Dreams" by The Cranberries In November 2016, it was first reported that ABC was developing a spin-off that would center around recurring character Rick Mellor, played by Bryan Callen.

It was also announced that AJ Michalka would reprise her role as Lainey Lewis from The Goldbergs in the new show, but Nia Long will not return to the spin-off due to being a regular cast member on the CBS drama series NCIS: Los Angeles.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Schooled's freshman outing struggles to differentiate itself from its predecessor—though its sweetly silly sensibilities and stellar cast may be enough for viewers looking for a good-natured sitcom.