Lol! I'm from the UK too - so it's all cheesy to me. 
Nerdy girl puts on makeup and suddenly everyone wants to be her friend/date her.
Everyone's obsessed with prom/loosing their virginity.
Bully has a bitchy gay minion. 
Omg I know right?! Every football player I met was way into weird al and knew more about pokemon/sonic then I did 
As for the OP question 
it's really kind of a broad range. I think it's gonna depend on what the story is gonna be focused on more? Is it the popular girl trope? Where you got a mean girls story line of a girl who gets popular and then popularity corrupts them?
Or are you going for a parody more along the line of what Bully did where all these groups are incredibly on dimensional and we make fun of this? (Tho bully made fun of a lot of uncomfortable things 
)
I would prob start with what exactly your gonna do with the story because then you have a lot more to work with when it comes to what exactly you want to parody,
I for example do a parody of my own comic for our anniversary on April 1s where I turn it into a high school BL so I make fun of a lot of BL plots- which is fine- but I'm starting to get to a point where making fun of the tropes isn't ALL I get to do 
I also need to figure out some kind of goal for myself or the characters. That way me and my wirter can like... Actually decided on what tropes are more relevant to the "story" then just... You know... All of them
That way you avoid the pit falls of the "yes and" problem where you've just completely gone off the rails and jumped the shark cause you've lost the thread completely
Tho I guess if your just gonna do a gag a day/slice of life comic you should be fine just picking random tropes to make fun of
Remember most high school movies are written by 40+ year old men/woman that lived in their own bubbles. The average writer sees himself as a victim from school. But they only have their perspective.
1.The jogs don't pick on the nerds...EVERYONE picked on everyone. The jocks are a 1000% more cruel to each other with just their pranks. The outsider kids for the most part don't even exist to them. So when that outsider kid grows up he sees it as bullying but its just apathy. They didn't care.
2. Even the outsider kids had a hierarchy. Every group has a pecking order. Too many shows have a us vs them. All the band kids are united vs the jocks. This is not usually how this works. Most groups have their own infighting that others outside the group couldn't care less about.
3. There is usually no one "running the school". Remember these are children. The teachers see them as children. No teacher is afraid of children. And the "he's from a rich family and can do whatever he wants" is absolute fiction. If you did whatever you want, you get expelled. This holds even more true in a larger city. The larger the city, the more "rich family stuff" doesn't work.
4. People move in and out of cliques all the time. The band guy can also be a baseball player. Or even have friend that went the sports route but stayed friends. The nerd can also be a popular girl in cheer (happened a lot). Even the strange kid could be known for great ideas or something. The cliques you see in movies are not realistic, cliques are not so static.
Just saying real life is way more complicated than people remember.
This is maybe off-topic, but I just wanted to add to the discussion of high school tropes that were definitely not true for me:
1) football players and cheerleaders are the most popular/get the most attention--> at my school, basketball and the dance team got the most attention. I never met anyone on the baseball team, but they were the ones who had the reputation for being rude
2) There was some kind of strange alliance between the tough kids, the non-honors nerds, and random kids I went to elementary school with
3) no one really bullied anyone. The mean kids from middle school all went to one of the other high schools for some reason. The closest was when the honors kids started getting competitive/catty right before final rankings came out (top 10 highest gpas). But once final rankings were released, everyone was nice again.
4) high school kids have lockers--> nope, in my area that was not allowed, and most of the campus was outside (no indoor hallways)
5) There is always lots of drama, parties, free time, I never see anyone doing homework--> nope, my friends and I pretty much just studied all the time and didn't have time for anything else. No real parties aside from graduation parties. Most people in my friend group didn't start driving until college.
6) Oh! And I just wanted to add: There was a food fight, but at the other high school I mentioned. Parents actually drove to the school to bring their kids more food to throw. I wasn't there, but I heard that it was wild.
I lived in an area that has neighborhoods that were stupidly wealthy. Adding to this, teachers were far more afraid of parents than the kids. Rich parents felt like their children were entitled to good grades and often blamed teachers instead of their kid who never did their homework. Rich parents also found a way to zone districts in order to send their kids to the school they wanted which probably filtered into why they felt they deserved more. In recent years, some parents have taken to stalking teachers on social media.
There was a wing of my school for kids with emotional disorders, they were the only kids who could "do whatever they wanted" mostly because that kind of behavior was why they were put in that part of the school to begin with.
Thanks for the advice! I want to do the stereotypical "new girl falls in love with popular boy, but mean girl intervenes, so new girl wins hot boys heart with help from her unpopular friends", but with a funny twist....
Only thing I would say with your story is you better bring something new to the table because that's been done a million times but experienced writers. Your funny better be able to set your story apart. But as always, good luck and I hope it goes well.
The twist is that it's set in a clown college, and all the characters are clowns, and they all act like clowns (except the goth kids, who are mimes.)
The cliché is maybe outdated but it definitely existed in the 80s and not only in the USA.
We had the sport chads who were exactly like in the movies and we also had the stereotypical
nerds who looked like nerds and had nerd hobbies like roleplaying, computers and had glasses,
we had the outsider who were punks, metal heads, gothics or other subcultures and that was in
Germany in the 80s
I'm working on it : )
However, I also have a big comic project on my hands too, but I can still draw some concept art
This comedy parodies lots of old and not so old high school movie cliches and it's hillarious!
Another movie i recommend that plays some highschool cliches in an entertaining way is Mean girls
Another thing i would recommend you is to play with circus tropes and cliches.....maybe the "theatre kids" are
cirque-du-solei-esque clowns, the school bus is an undersized car and instead of American football the sport played by the jocks is clown rodeo or other crazy stuff on the line......
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It's the same as in other movies :))) You can find movies right on google. If you can't find out then you can go to rewrite service, there often they write about something taken from the film, like for example here https://edubirdie.com/rewrite-my-essay is an essay writing service where you can get the information you need plus you can hire a writer who will write everything you need.
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