How many episodes are in School Spirits?

School Spirits has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does School Spirits premiere?

School Spirits premieres on 2026-01-28.

Is School Spirits a new series?

School Spirits is a returning series (Season 3).

School Spirits(2023)

Also known as Призраки школы • Licealne duchy

Archived · Paramount+

168 eps

S03

MysteryDramaFantasySupernatural

ON AIR: JAN 28Season 3Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

School Spirits runs a whodunit and a ghost story through the same plot: Maddie is both the detective and the missing person, which keeps the mystery unusually personal. Every clue she uncovers about her own disappearance carries a double weight, because solving the case means confronting what happened to her.

The high school setting doubles as purgatory, so the social world of classmates and friendships does not disappear when Maddie does. She navigates those relationships from the other side, which gives the supernatural premise a grounded, specific texture. Quieter scenes about loss and identity sit alongside the procedural momentum, and the two registers push against each other in ways that keep the story from settling into formula.

Best for

self-disappearance mystery, ghostly high school and Mystery

Story lane

Mystery and Drama

Commitment

Season 3 · 8 episodes

Where

Paramount+

Official Premise

Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own disappearance, goes on a crime-solving mission as she adjusts to high-school purgatory.

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Strongest Match

Wednesday brings the same high-school purgatory vibe as School Spirits, with a teen sleuth who turns every hallway into a clue. Dry deadpan jokes and tense supernatural mysteries keep the pace moving, while the haunted school setting mirrors the afterlife adjustment and classmate pressure.

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Why this pick

If Wishes Could Kill keeps School Spirits’ teen mystery energy, centered on friends trapped in a countdown where every choice costs something. The death-warning app creates immediate danger inside the same tight social circle, and the miniseries pace keeps the whodunit feeling urgent, darker, and more relentless.

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Why this pick

Beastars shares School Spirits’ high-school mystery focus, where the tension comes from how people act under pressure in a strange, rule-bound world. A murder investigation runs alongside desire and restraint, and the slower, more uncomfortable character focus makes it feel heavier and less comedic than School Spirits.

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