Eli's locker has the same booby trap as Bender's locker in The Breakfast Club (1985). In both instances the toe of a shoe is chopped off.
Sam names two sisters, Hermione and Luna. This is the name of two characters in the Harry Potter series.
Principal Burr makes a reference to the school's ability to have survived earthquakes, brush fires and now biochemical nuclear war which a reference to his movie Wargames.