Dress Code

The Board of Education expects student dress and grooming to be neat, clean, and in good taste, so that each student may share in promoting a positive, healthy and safe atmosphere within the school district. The board of Education believes that a dress code is necessary to promote a more effective learning environment, to create more opportunities for self-expression, to increase school safety and security, and to ensure modest dress that eliminates disruption in the classroom and at school events. The Board of Education has found that certain dress and grooming cause disruption in the schools; therefore, the following regulations apply to all students:

1)       Dress and grooming will be clean and neat and in keeping with health, sanitary, and safety requirements;

2)       Items of clothing, jewelry, and other grooming displaying, symbolizing, referring to, or bearing an advertisement for a controlled substance, including but not limited to tobacco, alcohol, and drugs, are not permitted;

3)       Clothing, jewelry, and other grooming that disrupts the teaching/learning process or cause undue attention to an individual student are not permitted;

4)       A student may be required to adjust his or her hair and/or clothing and/or jewelry during a class period in the interest of       maintaining safety standards if class                                                                       activities present a concern for student safety;

5)       Additional dress regulations may be imposed upon students participating in certain extracurricular activities;

6)       Clothing, jewelry, bags, backpacks, tattoos, etc., containing obscene, violent, vulgar, sexual, or lewd language or other depictions are not permitted;

7)       Sunglasses shall not be worn in any school building unless medically required;

8)       Undergarments are required to be worn by all students and shall not be exposed nor visible, and outer clothing shall not be see-through;

9)       Shirts with spaghetti straps or tank tops or other shirts that leave the shoulders or midriff exposed are not permitted unless required for a particular extracurricular activity.

10)    Shirts, pants, shorts, skirts, and other clothing that are excessively short are not permitted. Shorts must have a minimum five (5) inch inseam to be in compliance. Attention should be given to loose-fitting, baggy shorts for modesty reasons.

11)    Skirts shall be no more than three inches above the knee;

12)    Hats and baseball caps shall not be worn in any school building;

13)    Facial hair, including beards and mustaches, shall be clean and neat.

14)    Students are not allowed to wear rings, hoops, studs, bars, etc. in piercings other than the ear.

15)    Unnatural hair colors (Example: blue, green, yellow, bright red, pink, etc.) are not permitted.

Consequences for dress code violation: Students will be required to change if not in compliance the first time. On the second offense, students will be sent home as an unexcused absence.

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