Hey, don't underestimate the gift of homemade cookies. Zee best. People really appreciate them. Even vacuous cheerleaders.
Take heart; you're all too young to have seen this syndrome but you will, it's universal, happened with my school and happens with all high schools and colleges.
About, oh, 15 years after school it starts, The Great Morphication. All the nerds, dorks and general misfits look fabulous, are happy and accomplished and did I mention look fabulous? All the "in" kids, the cheerleaders, et al, look AWFUL and are miserable.
It happens every time. This is why people go to reunions, it's wonderful quiet dork revenge. Just don't go to the early reunions, they still look presentable and still have some attitude. Go to year 15 or better yet 20.
I never happened to fit either category, I was with zee happyhippie kids, we were Cool. And all the misfits were allowed to hang with us if they wanted. We did not allow cheerleaders because they were not nice to anyone, nor the sports jocks because they were constantly drunk and not nice to anyone. And we happyhippie kids, we look just the same. Not better, not worse, the same. We are Stopped in Time, apparently.
The high school/college years do not, repeat do not in any way reflect who we actually are or will be, the social surroundings are just too artificial and ridiculous, especially in high school, they make it so bloody hard to just be yourself.