Eagle Students and Parents,

In an effort to help everyone plan, we want to share with you our Homecoming 2025 activities:

• The HOCO game is Friday, September 26 against Weatherford Christian. The High school AND Middle School (this is new) homecoming dance will be on Saturday, September 27th. The middle school location is TBD, but the high school dance will be in the HCA Gym. 

• The schoolwide pep rally will be on Friday, September 26 (parents are welcome to attend) at the end of the school day. Details to come at a later date. 

• Friday, September 26th will be the HOCO court festivities.  Even though this is a large class, we will still follow our HCA tradition of all seniors walking on the field before the game.  Male students will be accompanied by mothers (or a mother figure in their life) and female students will be accompanied by fathers (or a father figure in their life). Senior ladies will wear “long” court dresses to be approved by HCA faculty, and parents who are escorting a student onto the field can wear their Sunday best. 

• If a student is bringing an outside date (high school only), the interview and dress approval must be completed by September 22nd. 

**Dress Approval Change ** PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION**

• For high school homecoming, ladies wear “short” dresses. “Long” dresses are reserved for prom.  For middle school homecoming, dresses are “Sunday best.”

• With the growth of our student population and the hardship of printing copious amounts of pictures that do not always accurately depict the way a dress will fit students, we will not be taking photos of dresses this year. 

• Gentlemen, you are to wear Sunday best (middle school) and dress pants with an overcoat/blazer or a suit (high school.) Shirts are not to be unbuttoned past the 2nd button from the top as well as pants should not be too form fitting. No jeans.

• The process will return to the days of when students brought their dresses to the school and wore them for 3 female faculty.  The female faculty will be given a rubric to check dresses and all students will follow the same rubric. We will ask  that a student can walk across the room and raise their arms without the dress moving up and becoming too short (in an effort to remain modest while dancing).  

• We encourage mothers or grandmothers (but this is not required) to come with their daughters. If you are unable to attend in person, we will allow you to Facetime during your daughter’s dress fitting. When school resumes, we will make Monday afternoons our homecoming dress approval day. ALL dresses must be approved by September 22nd. This is a hard deadline, so please plan accordingly. If you do not have your dress approved by then, you will not be able to attend homecoming.

• If modifications/alterations have to be made per the dress committee’s recommendation, you will have to have the modifications completed and meet with the dress committee again for confirmation and approval. This deadline will also be Monday, September 22nd.  

• We will follow the same guidelines as before: No strapless, see through or high slits.  General rules of thumb:  Anything too short, too low cut, too tight, or too thin of fabric will be denied.  If a dress “rides up” when a girl walks or raises her arms, it will be denied.  If it outlines the cleavage area (example, bra cup styles), it will be denied.

•  Dresses CAN NOT--

  • Have a scrunch down the backside that accentuates the posterior. 

  • Low-cut fronts, keyholes, cutouts are not permitted. 

  • Have a sweetheart or plunging necklines. 

  • No cleavage should be exposed. 

  • Avoid backless dresses. The back must be no lower than the natural waistline.. 

• Thin material or anything that reveals skin or cleavage will not be permitted.

Modesty must be able to be maintained at all times.

Girls!  You can wear whatever your family approves when you aren’t at HCA events.  We hope, however, that you desire to have a Christlike posture toward this expectation.  The world says you need to dress provocatively to be pretty.  That is not true.  That is a lie.  You are beautiful with your words, your attitude, and your heart after God.   

I love you all (and miss you!)

Mrs. Leal