The third season of Degrassi: Next Class premiered on January 9, 2017 on Family Channel under the teen block F2N in Canada and began streaming internationally on January 6, 2017 on Netflix. This season follows a group of high school juniors and seniors from Degrassi Community School, a fictional school in Toronto, Ontario, and depicts some of the typical issues and challenges common to a teenager's life. This season will pick up a couple of months after the season two finale and begin a new school year. It will tell the stories of high school drama with groundbreaking stories such as sex, abortion, immigration, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, major depressive disorder, traumatic brain injury, dysfunctional families, sexuality, homophobia, hormones, religion, protest, disabilitie