The faculty, staff, and administration of Middlesex County Public Schools rely on students and parents to exercise judgment in promoting modesty, decency, and a sense of decorum so as not to disrupt the learning environment or compromise personal safety or the safety of others.
This dress code will assist parents and students as they make decisions regarding attire that will contribute to an appropriate, safe, and secure learning environment for all students. A student’s dress and appearance shall not be such that it causes disruption, distracts others from the educational process or creates a health or safety problem. Students are expected to comply with the following stated regulations.
Students may not wear the following items unless otherwise stated:
Hoods, hats, or head coverings of any kind inside school buildings during regular school hours, unless required for religious or documented medical reasons.
Sunglasses, unless prescribed by a physician. This includes sunglasses, which are attached to a lanyard and worn around the neck.
Dresses, skirts, shorts, athletic shorts, and other similar clothing that is shorter than finger tip length (measured by the longest finger with arms straight and palms flat) even when worn with leggings or tights.
Messages on clothing, chains, jewelry, and personal belongings that pertain to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, sex, gangs, gang activity, vulgarity, or that could reasonably cause a disruption to the learning environment.
Spiked jewelry, chains, and items, which could cause student injury.
Beachwear (including bathing suits and trunks) and sleepwear, lounge wear, or bedroom slippers.
Clothing that reveals undergarments (including pants worn well below the waist and spaghetti-strapped tops).
Torn or ripped clothing that reveals undergarments or body parts excluded by other parts of this code. This includes holes in jeans/pants that reveal skin higher than fingertip length.
Clothing that reveals the midriff while sitting or standing.
Tank tops, tube tops, halter-tops, halter-top dresses, strapless dresses or tops or dresses with spaghetti straps or plunging necklines.
Leggings, tights may only be worn with dresses, skirts, and shorts of the appropriate length (see #3 above). Leggings or tights may not be worn alone.
Any other clothing or accessories that challenge general safety or pose a disruption to learning.
Students must wear clothing as designed (buttoned, zipped, etc.) and must wear pants on the hips, secured above the buttocks. Students may not:
1) Drape towels, shirts, or shorts around the neck.
2) Roll down waistbands on shorts, pants, and skirts.
3) Wear clothing in any manner that reveals undergarments at any time.
4) Wear athletic basketball-style jerseys without wearing a t-shirt underneath.