Season 1

Zoey begins life at PCA. She is nervous about the situation at first, but gets more comfortable when she meets her new friends; Dana, Quinn, Chase,Nicole, Logan, Michael. The girls and boys try to adjust to girls being allowed to attend PCA for the first time.

Logan brings a present for the girls, a bear for the girls' lounge. Then people find out their secrets (i.e. Quinn eats baby food) and the girls start to blame each other for telling their secrets. And later trying to find out who is the culprit.

When a school bully forces Dustin to do his homework for him, Zoey confronts the bully in public, embarrassing Dustin in the process and further enraging the bully. So Dustin decided that Zoey is babying him too much. He goes to Chase and Michael for advice and tries to tell Zoey that he can defend himself by his own. Meanwhile, Zoey, Nicole, Dana, Chase, and Michael try to hide their dog, Elvis away from their dorm advisor, since it's against school rules for having pets on campus. Logan did not appear in this episode.

Prank Week, a PCA tradition where returning students prank new ones, has begun. The boys prank the girls multiple times, so the girls decide to prank the boys back (which violates tradition because new students are not supposed to do anything about it except getting pranked). The boys were supposed to keep a statue of the founder of PCA clean, so Zoey comes up with a prank and the girls put women's clothes on it. But when the son of PCA's founder sees it, he is very angry, and tells the girls that its going to be their last semester at PCA and that no more girls are going to PCA. So then after all the sadness from the girls, Zoey tries to figure out a way of how the girls can stay at PCA.

Chase writes a play, and he is cast as the lifeguard, and Zoey is cast as the alien, who he gets to kiss. Chase is excited, but then Logan auditions and gets the part instead. Chase becomes obsessed with what will happen between Logan and Zoey. Meanwhile, Dustin has a fever and Quinn tries to cure him by using one of her "Quinnventions".

Quinn has a crush on a boy named Mark, but is too afraid to ask him out. She asks Zoey to ask him out for her, resulting in Quinn thinking she's going out with Mark. Zoey, worried that Quinn will find out that she's not really going out with Mark, asks Chase to go on a double date with her, Mark,and Quinn. Meanwhile, Dustin takes care of Elvis while the other boys are busy, even though he's afraid of animals.

Zoey, Dana, Nicole sign up for the spring-fling committee in order to get Drake Bell to perform at their spring-fling. But when they find out they have to have $5,000 for Drake to play at spring-fling, Zoey and the gang put up a fund-raiser.

When Nicole pays for a backpack she messed up at the bookstore, she is broke and calling the backpack stupid. But when Zoey re-designed the backpack using her ideas, Nicole likes it and keeps it. Later on, Zoey's backpack idea is stolen from a girl named, Stacy and she makes a lot of money. So then Zoey and the gang try to seek revenge on her.

In this episode the gang is worn out from always running in gym class. Nicole keeps throwing up and is tired of it. To solve this, they decide to put together a disc golf team to keep them from doing gym class. Also, Michael is not happy with his weight due to him being addicted to chips, so he gets Quinn to solve his problem

The school dance committee implements an experimental personality-based partner selection process. So, Chase tries to get matched up with Zoey, and so he does whatever it takes to get matched up with her. But of course, his plan backfires when another guy gets matched up with her as well as him. Zoey must pick between Chase and Glen, the other guy. Chase is upset and tries to get Zoey to pick him.

It's the end of the semester and Zoey and her friends are excited for PCA's annual beach party but... they end up going to the wrong beach unsupervised. It turns out that they aren't at Mystic Beach (where the big PCA party is) and have no way of getting back. But, they throw their own party and Quinn works her magic and finds a way to go back home.