Clothing

1.      Pants or shorts will be appropriately sized and worn at a natural waistline (no sagging or bagging).  Cotton sweat pants, biker or spandex shorts, breakaway pants, wind shorts, short shorts, athletic shorts, and cutoffs will not be allowed.  Custom ripped jeans will not be allowed.  Hems of shorts, skorts, culottes, skirts, and dresses will be no shorter than 2 ½ inches (the width of a dollar bill) when measured from the top of the kneecap.  Slits in dresses, skirts, shorts, skorts, culottes and pants are considered part of the hemline and must not exceed the 2 ½ inches above the kneecap. (Slits are any vertical openings extending upward from the hemline front, back, sides or any other hemline placement.) Shorts are to be worn at the hem and not rolled up.

2.      All students will have their shirts tucked in.  Female blouses designed to be worn at or just below the beltline may be left out.  Females must tuck in t-shirt style shirts.

3.      Males: Shirts will be appropriately sized, buttoned and with sleeves.

4.      Females: Shirts will be appropriately sized and buttoned.  Straps on tops must be at least two inches wide.  Halters, strapless garments, tank tops, mesh see-through tops and clothes that expose the midriff or back will not be allowed.  No cleavage should be visible.

5.      Coats, jackets, and protective weather garments shall be worn as appropriate to the environment.  Sweaters with ribbed waistlines may be worn out.  Tops of sweater-like materials with an open waistband must be tucked in.

6.      Clothing containing obscene slogans, gang-related identifying emblems or symbols, advertisements for tobacco, alcoholic beverages, gruesome blood, drug paraphernalia, or sexual innuendoes will not be allowed.

7.   Backless shoes, such as flip-flops, athletic sandals or similar styles, may not be worn.

Headwear

1.      Caps and hats will be allowed outside the buildings if worn appropriately and for the intended purposes (caps with bills will be worn forward and not worn as gang colors).

2.      Bandannas will not be allowed.

3.      Sunglasses or sunshades are not to be worn in the building.

Grooming

Hair:

1.      Hair must be neatly groomed.  No extreme hairstyles such as carvings, spikes, tails, pony tails (boys), shaved or partially shaved heads will be allowed.  No extreme variations of hair length and/or abnormal hair color will be permitted.  Boy’s hair may be worn no lower than to the bottom of the ear lobe or the bottom of the collar of a dress shirt.

2.      Boys must be clean-shaven…no mustaches, beards, or goatees will be allowed.

3.      Sideburns will not extend past the bottom of the earlobe.

4.      Eyebrows will not be carved or notched.

Accessories:

1.      Boys will not be allowed to wear earrings.

2.      Girls may wear a maximum of two earrings in each earlobe.

3.      Body piercing jewelry and/or accessories will not be allowed.

4.      Heavy chains or accessories with spike will not be allowed.

5.      Any accessory that may cause injury will not be allowed.

6.      No theatrical contact lenses may be worn.

Make-up:

1.      Extreme make-up will not be allowed (Example: black lipstick, black eye shadow, black nail polish, etc.).

2.      Boys may not wear make-up.