Stories from East High

Friendships are tested when the students at East High School are given the opportunity to decide whether to use the school's limited funds to renovate the gymnasium or the auditorium.

Troy keeps fending off invitations to the Sadie Hawkins dance--the culmination of Spirit Week at East High--waiting for Gabrielle to ask him, but communication breaks down when she becomes preoccupied with other problems and activities, and he is duped by Sharpay into believing Gabrielle has asked someone else.

Troy leaves Gabriella out when he and his teammates decide to compete in the Battle of the Bands, and Sharpay forms a girl group to be their competition.

East High and West High both assemble teams to participate in the Baking Channel's televised bake-off, and while East High has Zeke in their corner, the other members of his team are not nearly as adept.

The Wildcats, spending New Year's at a ski resort, realize everyone is doing their own thing and decide to come together to bring in the new year.

Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, and Ryan head to New York City for a class trip and the group finds some unexpected surprises waiting for them, including a chance to audition for a Broadway show and a game show that could pay for college, but the competition may prove too harsh for the friends.

Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, and Ryan head to New York City for a class trip and the group finds some unexpected surprises waiting for them, including a chance to audition for a Broadway show and a game show that could pay for college, but the competition may prove too harsh for the friends.

Everyone at East High is looking forward to Spirit Week and the Sadie Hawkins dance, but Sharpay convinces Gabriella not to ask Troy too early, leaving Troy to wonder if Gabriella will ever ask him.

Troy enlists Gabriella to help teach Chad and the other guys on the basketball team how to write poetry for an important class assignment, but the task goes sour for Gabriella when she accidently sees a poem Troy has obviously written about another girl.

East High students prepare for the SAT tests, which means Gabriella must tutor Sharpay, and, as the school's Halloween dance approaches, they Tony and Gabriella are both distracted as they wonder what each other envisions for the future.