Dress Code

Student dress and/or appearance (including backpacks, binders, and other personal articles) shall be safe, neat, clean, and appropriate for school attendance.  Student dress or appearance shall not be disruptive or offensive to the educational environment or process.  Clothing that may be appropriate for other private and family occasions and activities away from school may not be appropriate to be worn to school.  Any student, whose personal actions, hygiene, or dress is offensive, disruptive, overly distracting or dangerous to others or to him/her, will be sent home until such conditions are corrected.  The final authority for what is appropriate, safe, clean, and non-disruptive shall rest with the school administration.  The school administration reserves the authority to establish their own standards of dress and appearance, which is in compliance with the California Administrative Code, Title 5, Section 301.

The following are not allowed:

• Bandanas of any color (bandanas may not be brought to school)
• Chains or chains attached to wallets
• Clothing that clearly exposes or draws attention to private body parts or undergarments such as tube tops, halter tops, and short tops exposing the midriff
• Clothing that mentions or refers to sex, drugs, alcohol, or tobacco in any manner
• Clothing with inappropriate, abusive or violent language or images
• Clothing with swearing, cursing messages with double meanings, profane or suggestive sayings
• Markings on binders, book covers, backpacks, clothing that are inappropriate, including gang-styled drawings
• Pajamas
• Pants that sag exposing ones underwear or buttocks
• Short shorts or cutoffs
• Slippers
• Spiked clothing, spiked shoes, spiked neckwear and spiked jewelry
• Sleeveless under shirts as outer garments
• Hats and all other non-religious headgear worn within any school building
• Any item which displays inappropriate message or gang-related materials or colors
• Bare feet and slippers
• Hems shorter than the tips of the fingers when arms are straight down at sides
• Belts which are not tucked in or hang down

The following dress code rules will also be enforced for all middle school students:

• No gang related clothing may be worn.  This includes solid red, maroon, or blue T-shirts or belts and red “Santa Clara” sweatshirts or T-shirts that do not include the word “University”, as well as any clothing that makes reference to telephone area codes (“408, “650”, etc).   In addition, only one article of red or blue may be worn at one time.