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Student Dress Code 2025-2026

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Student Dress Code 2025-2026
Wes Brown

CHICKAMAUGA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
STUDENT DRESS CODE 2025-2026

The Chickamauga City Schools Board of Education supports a learning environment which is safe, conducive to learning, and free of distractions. A student’s dress and personal appearance should reflect pride in self and school. It is our hope that students will leave Chickamauga City Schools with an understanding that “appropriate dress” is determined by the event or function a person is attending.

A dress code has been established for Chickamauga City Schools to help set the proper atmosphere for learning to take place. Students are required to show proper attention to personal cleanliness, neatness, and conservative standards of dress and appearance. Your cooperation in providing a positive climate for learning is appreciated. Your child will be expected to follow the dress standards as they are written. If a student does not comply with the dress code, he/she will be removed from class until the dress is acceptable. Absences from class for violations will be considered unexcused absences. Parents and/or guardians may have to bring clothes to school to help the student reach compliance.

GUIDELINES FOR DRESS AND GROOMING:

  1. Any appearance which is disruptive to the educational process is prohibited.

  2. Clothes will be in good taste, size appropriate, and will not be revealing. Clothing will not have holes. REVISED

  3. Students should only wear shorts in P.E. class (exceptions grades K-5).

  4. Skirts, skorts and shorts must be at least mid-thigh length and cannot have holes or have splits that expose the thigh. REVISED

  5. Leggings, jeggings, and yoga pants are not allowed. REVISED

  6. Strapless tops, one shoulder tops, or crop tops are not allowed. No bare midriff showing when standing, sitting, bending, or raising arms and back and shoulders must be covered at all times. No spaghetti straps or muscle shirts.

  7. Sweatsuits, sweatpants, and warm-ups are not allowed in middle and high school.

  8. Students who wear trousers or slacks that have belt loops must wear a belt.

  9. Tee shirts must be tucked in. Jerseys may be worn over acceptable attire but must be tucked in.

  10. No students’ shirt is to be bloused out to give the appearance of being tucked in. Shirts worn as a jacket must be tucked in if they do not have a straight edge hem.

  11. Appropriate undergarments are required and should not be visible.

  12. Clothing with the American flag improperly displayed is not allowed.

  13. Clothing with profanity, lewd pictures, symbols that are controversial and may be offensive to others, suggestive slogans or advertisements, or logos of items illegal for younger students to purchase (alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etc.) is not allowed. No skull and crossbones, knives, etc. associated with death or dismemberment. No shirts promoting entertainers or groups promoting any of the above.

  14. Wearing headwear (hats, hoods, caps, scarves, bandanas, toboggans, sunglasses, etc.) is not allowed inside the school building. Chains of any kind are not allowed. All students must wear shoes. REVISED

  15. Body piercings are not allowed except for females pierced ears. Male students are not allowed to wear earrings. Tattoos and body art must be covered.

  16. Males’ hair length can be no longer than the top of a shirt collar, cannot be below mid-ear on the sides and cannot fall below the eyebrows. Sideburns cannot be below mid-ear. Students must be clean shaven. 

  17. Trendy or distracting hair styles (mohawk, mullets, spikes, unnatural colors, shaving part of the head, or designs in hair, etc.) are not allowed. REVISED

     

    All students must be within dress code at all times.

 

No student shall dress or groom where the effect, in the administrator’s opinion, is inappropriate for school.

 

DRESS CODE SUBJECT TO REVISION

 

Revised April 2025