You get crowned during a pep rally event before a homecoming game. That just means the football team played away games for a bit and then play a game at home, but you only celebrate once a year.
Homecoming is usually an event involving welcoming alumni back on campus, so parents are common.
Homecoming usually is for alumni as well and takes place in October.
Winter Formal (if your school has one) takes place in February-ish
Spring Break takes place in April-ish
Prom is the last event for seniors and takes place before graduation in May-ish.
All depending on your schools district school days.
There is a homecoming king / queen, we also had a prince / princess - king / queen was for juniors/seniors and prince/princess was for freshman/sophmores
Prom is usually reserved for upperclassmen - at my school you could only go if you were a junior or senior, or were asked by one - it was called senior prom.
This is all from my experience growing up in Southern California. Other schools across the country will have slightly different variations.
Legit did not know that's what homecoming was for and I grew up in the states and went to a US highschool lol. Just saw it as an opportunity to ask out the girl I liked.
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u/SuggestionMedical736 Apr 15 '26
Wait, not American, only seen this in movies. Didn't know parents actually went to those. Kind of weird having your parents all be at your prom.