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Jenkintown changes homecoming plans after canceling football season

The school district will now hold homecoming around a soccer game on Oct. 3.

A ninth-grade boy participates in the ball carry relay on Color Day at Jenkintown High School Stadium, May 12, 2000. Jenkintown changed its homecoming plans for fall 2026 after canceling the football season.
A ninth-grade boy participates in the ball carry relay on Color Day at Jenkintown High School Stadium, May 12, 2000. Jenkintown changed its homecoming plans for fall 2026 after canceling the football season.Read moreJill Anna Greenberg / Staff Photographer

Jenkintown School District will hold homecoming festivities around a coed varsity soccer team game next week after ending the football season early over low participation.

School leaders announced a new homecoming schedule on Friday, days after the football season cancellation.

The homecoming soccer game will start at 11 a.m. on Oct. 3 at the Jenkintown stadium, and homecoming court celebrations will be at halftime. Snack shack proceeds will benefit the senior class.

This coming week will be spirit week for Jenkintown’s upper grades, principal Tom Roller wrote in the announcement to families, ending in a pep rally on Friday.

The teams postponed the match originally planned for Tuesday, according to the charter school’s soccer schedule.

“We appreciate [MaST] Community Charter agreeing to change our game with them so that we could play a Homecoming match,” Roller wrote. “We hope that our community comes out to support our Homecoming court and our Varsity Soccer squad.”

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