Millennium High students are in the final stages of building floats, choosing their royalty and planning dates for their school’s second homecoming.

Festivities began with spirit week dress-up days Monday and will end with the varsity football game at 7 p.m. Saturday. In between are Wednesday’s rally, Friday night’s dance and Saturday’s parade.

The public charter high school rally, staged for the first time at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at West High School’s football stadium, will feature student activities, a powder-puff football game and the announcement of the homecoming king and queen.

Millennium’s homecoming dance will be from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday in the gym at the East Beverly Place campus. Student admission to the disk jockeyed-event is $6 at the door. The king and queen and their royalty will be honored.

Saturday’s downtown Tracy parade begins at 2 p.m. with seven floats constructed by students and staff at Millennium, Discovery and Primary schools, the latter two being charter schools under the Tracy Learning Center banner. The parade theme features music from the past decades and starts at Sixth Street and Central Avenue, finishing at Tracy City Hall.

The 3-3 Millennium High Falcons will face Rite of Passage in a Valley Christian League football game at 7 p.m. Saturday at West High. A victory would keep the Falcons unbeaten in league play and would end the week of celebrations on a high note. • Evelyn Raya is a Millennium High School journalism student.