When did your High School have Prom, and has it moved earlier in the year?

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GreenBeanTM@reddit

Sometime in May, same day as another school in our district and both always conflicted with a dance competition 😂 all of the high schoolers would be anxiously waiting to get the schedules week of to find out if we could actually go to prom or not.

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Footnotegirl1@reddit

Prom at my high school in the 80's was the weekend before the last week of school. So usually the very end of May. It was prom weekend, a couple of days of closing out classes and little fun events, the class trip to the local roller coaster park, Friday off, and then graduation on Saturday.

I have noticed that proms seem to be happening earlier and earlier. I suspect a good deal of that is that they are now rarely if ever held in the school gym or what have you (I mean, mine wasn't either, but I know some were) and there are only so many event spaces, so some schools probably have to go early.

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nakedonmygoat@reddit

I no longer remember the date, but graduation was always at the end of May, and prom was shortly before that, so I'd say it was probably mid-May, maybe early May. But we certainly didn't have prom in April.

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Bluemonogi@reddit

Some time in May I think.

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According-Couple2744@reddit

We had ours in early May. It was in a formal ball room at a local performing arts theater. It was a very formal environment with elegant chandlers, gold accents, and marble floors.

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TokyoDrifblim@reddit

About 15 years ago when I was in high school it was definitely at the end of April

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RobotShlomo@reddit

They usually have it in May.

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Apocalyptic0n3@reddit

Our schedule was:

Final exams in last week of May (2 weeks early)
Prom at a local banquet hall first week of June
Graduation ceremony at the Palace of Auburn Hills the second week of June
All night party at the high school the night of the ceremony

Seems like the entire schedule is one week early nowadays (I graduated nearly 20 years ago, so it's unsurprising)

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Temporary_Pie2733@reddit

It might be regional. My school (PA in the early 90s) was the first weekend in May. I’ve seen schools in CT in the last 10 years going late May.

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nierauto088@reddit

Hell I didn't go we had our own party they wanted our parents to pay $100 for each child

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few-piglet4357@reddit

May 5th, 1985. No idea why I remember that.

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Reasonable-Company71@reddit

Hawaii: Class of '03, private school. Ours was always in April and our school year ended Memorial Day weekend.

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_iusuallydont_@reddit

Early to mid May.

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botulizard@reddit

Senior prom was in May during the week leading up to graduation. Junior prom was probably April if I remember correctly.

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Narrow-Durian4837@reddit

The school year as a whole starts and ends earlier than it did when I was in school.

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goblin_hipster@reddit

In southern Wisconsin in the late '00s, it was early May.

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TillPsychological351@reddit

Ours was shortly before graduation, back in 1995.

I don't have a clue when they hold it now.

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jamiesugah@reddit

I'm from PA, my prom was in late May (26 years ago).

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Equivalent-Speed-631@reddit

Ours was in early May. Now it seems they are having them in April.

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amm1981@reddit

Michigan, graduated in 2000,it was the end of May, the week before graduation

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yellowrose04@reddit

Ours was in May.

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Antitenant@reddit

Our school year ended in late June, so May maybe. This was in the mid 2000s.

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kbivs@reddit

Graduated in 1987. My prom was the first week of June

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quietly_annoying@reddit

Our prom was always the Friday of Memorial Day weekend and parents used to complain about it. I see that it has been moved to May 1 this year. My daughter's prom is on May 2 and her best friend's school is on the same night.

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N_Huq@reddit

May. But there is much variation between each school district.

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redditreader_aitafan@reddit

Ours was in April. Graduation was mid-May. Most schools where I have lived are out for the year by Memorial Day at the latest.

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river-running@reddit

I think ours was in May.

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blipsman@reddit

Our was always early May, about a month before end of school year.

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sorrowsirenx@reddit

Ours was in mid May

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xxxjessicann00xxx@reddit

Mine was early April and the same school had theirs yesterday. The seniors are also done with classes and graduate a couple weeks earlier than we did.

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Otherwise-OhWell@reddit

April, probably? It was 20 years ago, I remember it, sorta, but not the date.

May would've been too close to graduation and nothing good happens in March.

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Norwester77@reddit

Ours was in May; it was called “May Dance” rather than “prom.”

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Courwes@reddit

Mine was mid April.

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No_Importance_750@reddit

My prom is coming up on May 2nd.

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Ok_Orchid1004@reddit

Don’t remember. Didn’t care then. Don’t care now.

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Designer-Travel4785@reddit

Beginning of June, I think it's early May now.

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Roborana@reddit

Mine was in mid May, 30 years ago. Our school year ended a week into June. The HS near me now has their prom at the end of April and the school year is over the week before Memorial Day.

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Imaginary_Ladder_917@reddit

Ours was in May but school got out mid June. My son’s was last night but he is finished mid May.

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Playful_Fan4035@reddit

Ours was pretty late in the school year, I think early May. They do seem to be doing prom earlier these days. I wonder if it might be competition for venues.

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JustSomeGuy_56@reddit

I think ours was in late May. (I didn’t go), but it was warm enough that while the cool kids got half a day off to get ready, several of us outcasts cut school and went to the shore. The Principal accused us of not showing proper school spirit, and this unexcused absence go on our Permanent Record. (New Jersey, 1973)

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Outside_Complaint755@reddit

Don't recall exactly when ours was, in the late 1990s, but I think we had it by mid-May. I think they have started moving earlier for a few reasons: 1) less conflict with spring sports post-season competitions. 2) less conflict with AP and other testing 3) For those schools that have it off campus, probably less competition for venue space vs weddings.

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TankDestroyerSarg@reddit (OP)

Those reasons make sense

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crunchyfoliage@reddit

It was always the first weekend in May at my school (graduated in '06)

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OkBiscotti1140@reddit

I graduated in the late 90s, every year prior to mine it was held the week before our graduation ceremony, so mid-June. Then the year before I graduated a bunch of kids showed up to prom obliterated and it was too late for any real form of discipline because grades were already finalized. So ours was moved to mid-April and it was cold af.

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TankDestroyerSarg@reddit (OP)

I remember from about a decade after yours that our regular school year always ended like the first week of June, Seniors graduated the week before, and Prom was maybe second or third weekend of May.

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OkBiscotti1140@reddit

Right. I suppose graduation was mid-June which would have made prom early June. Still way better than April with snow still on the ground.

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TankDestroyerSarg@reddit (OP)

We were out on the Lake Michigan boat cruise until around 3 this morning. That was frigid if you went outside to go to another deck, or someone opened the door.

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EvaisAchu@reddit

2nd half of April was when both the proms I attended were.

School always ended the last week of May for us so the last couple weeks wouldn't have been great timing.

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minnick27@reddit

Junior prom was usually mid April, senior mid May. Also the freshman dance was February and Soph Hop was March.

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BippidiBoppetyBoob@reddit

My senior prom was in May, but this was 20 years ago, now.

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manicpixidreamgirl04@reddit

Mid to late June.

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captain_ohagen@reddit

late June? did you go to high school in a prison?

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SabresBills69@reddit

my state starts school generally after Labor Day , graduation is around the early 20s of June.

tevently many schools have moved graduation to be school classes end,senior exams the rest of the week, senior graduation, thrn following week are the rest of exams. some students might have an exam after graduation because their class might be heavy sophomore/ Frenchman class like Spanish 1 class.

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manicpixidreamgirl04@reddit

Public schools here start after labor day and end during the last week of June.

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MarqiMichelle@reddit

It was always Mother’s Day weekend. Idk why they did that.

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

That seems cruel honestly. Maybe prom prep wasn't as involved. My sister has been working all week for her girls prom, she didn't even get out of bed today.

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