With Halloween around the corner, we wanted to ask the middle school student body and teachers questions about Halloween. In total we asked 100 middle schoolers and middle school teachers these questions.

What is your favorite Halloween candy?

• Snickers: 10%
• Reeses: 15%
• Hershey: 5%
• Candy corn: 10%
• Other:___: 60%

What are you going to dress up as for Halloween?

• Horror character: 16%
• Movie/game character: 13%
• I’m not sure/I don’t know: 34%
• Inflatable costumes: 6%
• Other:___: 31%

What’s a costume that you want to see on Halloween?

• A celebrity: 10%
• a cartoon character: 24%
• a horror character: 20%
• Inflatable costumes: 18%
• Other:___: 28%

What’s a costume you don’t want to see on Halloween?

• A celebrity: 13%
• A cartoon character: 14%
• A horror character: 10%
• Inflatable costume: 25%
• Other:___: 38%

What are you going to do for Halloween?

• Trick or treat: 44%
• Party: 10%
• Hand out candy: 12%
• Nothing: 11%
• Other:___: 23%

As a result of this poll, we were shocked by the amount of Inflatable costume answers. We put the option down, thinking it wouldn’t be a popular answer, but we underestimated the popularity of these costumes. We also thought that Hershey candy would be more popular. In 2018 this candy was at its peak of sales, now it’s not even in the top 10 sales.