Dress Code

Dress Code 

The professional staff's primary goal is to educate students and prepare them to meet their life goals. This cannot be done effectively when inappropriate clothing creates a disruption to the educational process. Specific standards are decency, safety, good grooming, and non-interference with teaching and learning.

Standardized Dress Requirements

Students are to arrive at school wearing appropriate clothing as defined in the dress code (District Policy 5511 and District Regulation 5511). 

The following dress code has been developed in accordance with Policy and Regulation No. 5511.

General Rules

• Students are expected to be clean and well groomed in their appearance. 

• Students are expected to avoid dress and grooming that is likely to create a material and substantial disruption to the school environment.  

• Dress or grooming that jeopardizes the health or safety of the student or of other students or is injurious to school property will not be tolerated.

Prohibited Clothing and Articles 

• Low-cut, tight fitting (excluding appropriate leggings) or transparent clothes, bare midriffs, and suggestive clothing.

• Skirts, dresses, and pants that end higher than mid-thigh.

• Outdoor jackets, coats, or hats except when entering or leaving the building and when there is a defect in the heating system.

• Bare feet, unsafe footwear, cleated shoes, and footwear intended for the beach; 

• Patches and decorations that are offensive or obscene.

• Undershirts (underwear) worn without an outer shirt.

• Clothing that is overly soiled, torn, worn, or defaced.

• Clothing, apparel and/or accessories which indicate affiliation with any gang associated with criminal activity or have references to alcohol, controlled dangerous substances, or tobacco.

• Clothing containing profanity or sexual references or innuendoes. 

• Clothing which includes racial or ethnic violence.

• Hats, hoods, visors, and other headgear.

• Any clothing that is likely to create a material and substantial disruption to the school environment.

DRESS CODE VIOLATIONS

Students who violate the dress code policy may be subject to discipline as outlined in the High School Code of Conduct