Freshman Year is a 14 part documentary series from HBO that followed students during their 9th grade or Freshman Year (1999-2000) at Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth California. The series followed students to get an inside look at how they dealt with their first year of high school and the challenges and adventures they experienced. Some of the students they followed were: Jason Cassel, the jock who was expected to live up to the Cassel family legacy of sports excellence. Jamie Kim, a Korean American student who was elected class president. Josh Levine who hoped high school would be a change from 8th grade where he was picked on for being the “nerd“. There were other students as well, one who was trying to get in the modeling world, another who did not care for her studies and was making bad choices. It followed different types of students to try and get the full experience of freshman year.