Dress Code Information

Note: The student dress code has not changed from the 2024-2025 school year.

INAPPROPRIATE CLOTHING AND PERSONAL ARTICLES

The purpose of this dress code is to help ensure student safety and to remove any barriers or distractions to the learning process. Schools are educational institutions, and no extreme form of personal appearance will be allowed to interfere with the educational process. School authorities may limit or prohibit any extreme type or style of student dress, personal appearance, or use of wearing apparel, which, in the judgment of school officials, is deemed to create a disruption of school discipline and routine, or creates a safety hazard. Good personal appearance is conducive to a positive learning environment. This dress code promotes proper grooming and hygiene, instills discipline, prevents disruption, conforms to safety guidelines, and teaches respect

for authority. Proper dress by students and staff is expected at all times. All individuals are to come to school clean and neatly dressed. Apparel must meet with health and safety codes, be in good repair, and must not interfere with the educational process.

PROHIBITED CLOTHING AND DEFINITIONS OF ACCEPTABLE WEAR

• Fingertip Length (approximately mid-thigh) is with the student standing normal upright with arms at their side as displayed in the illustration above. Areas shown in crisscrossed should be covered.*

• Any clothing warranting safety concerns, such as trench coats and loose or baggy pants or shirts as determined by the school’s administrator is prohibited.

• Shoes must be worn at all times. Shoes with cleats, spurs, nails, wheels or objects that would create a safety hazard, and house shoes are prohibited.

• Pants/Jeans/skirts/Shorts must be worn at the natural waist.

• No Pajamas except on designated theme days that have been approved.

• No undergarments may be exposed.

• Any clothing with holes or tears above fingertip length that expose skin or undergarments. Tears and holes above fingertip length should be patched to completely cover the manufactured hole. Naturally occurring holes above fingertip length should be patched completely. No skin or undergarment, regardless of size of tear, should be shown above fingertip length.

• Shirts, blouses, tops must cover the body at the waist and with no midriff showing.

• Skirts and dresses must be no less than one credit card length above the knee.

• Shorts must be no less than fingertip length.

• Leggings, yoga pants, and other tight clothing must be accompanied by a top shirt that is long enough to cover the individual’s entire buttock area and front side with equal length.

• Sheer, strapless, exposing, provocative, and revealing clothing is prohibited.

• Tank tops, muscle shirts, etc. are prohibited.

• Clothing with a message that is obscene, profane, lewd, vulgar, or that “harasses, threatens, intimidates, or demeans an individual or group of individuals, or a sub population, because of gender, color, race, religion, handicap, national origin, or sexual orientation, or that advertises illegal substances such as alcohol, drugs, and/or tobacco products” are prohibited.

• Tattoos that are vulgar or that display items related to drugs, alcohol, or gang symbols, or that are racially or sexually offensive are to be covered and non-visible at all times.

PROHIBITED PERSONAL ARTICLES

Any article warranting a safety concern may be deemed prohibited by the school-level administration.

• Piercing can be a safety concern. Only small studs will be permitted for facial piercings.

• Chains, fangs, spikes, piercing retainers (metal or plastic) are prohibited.

• The wearing of hats, caps, bandannas, hoods, and other head gear are prohibited in school buildings.

• Blankets and body wraps are prohibited unless being transported and used for overnight trips or grade level administration approval for activities in elementary school.

• Backpacks including, but not limited to, duffle bags, book bags, and briefcase-style bags in middle and high school are prohibited. Athletes and students going on overnight trips will have their bag(s)/luggage stored by the school until needed.