Homecoming is an event that’s special to many students as friends dance and celebrate as the king and queen are announced. However, the threat of cancellation caused some concern this year.

“I felt like it was so last minute being told everything and then having to completely change promotional plans,” Student Body President Maxine Espino (12) said. 

Students and student council members say they were dissatisfied with the communication and organization of the dance.

“I was pretty upset cause I feel like for me one of my favorite parts about homecoming is the food, so I was pretty upset about that,” Johnathan Hernandez (10) said. 

STUCO sponsors say that the winter homecoming typically sells fewer tickets than other dances, which likely lead to the threat of cancelation.

“Like I said it has always been smaller, last year we had 198 but not sure why we had that large of one as far as the winter one goes,” STUCO sponsor Karen Burns said.

In the future, Burns says STUCO may need to change some aspects of homecoming to keep from having to cancel.

“I’m not sure if they are going to end homecoming, there might be a change to how we have dances, might be a different demographic that we try to pull, like maybe we might just hold something for the freshman and sophomores,” Burns said. 

In the future, STUCO is considering a few new ways to increase attendance, including hosting small events to get more students involved. 

“This year we did a raffle with the scavenger hunt with teachers who were dressed in spirit gear,” Burns said. “Kids had to go and collect all the different colors and worked out pretty well and we also sold in person tickets but it was still just online so we still have that , that we’re still dealing with. I think it’s just trying to get kids interested in wanting to go out and do stuff again.”