Dress Code

The following guidelines are established as a point of reference for parents, students and administrators in regards to dress. All students must be clean and neatly groomed. The district’s dress code is established to minimize safety hazards, teach grooming and hygiene, and prevent disruptions. After receiving community input and Board approval, some campuses have implemented standardized dress or school uniforms for their students. Campuses with standardized dress or school uniforms will provide specific information to parents related to their clothing requirements.

The Board of Trustees of CFBISD delegates to the principal the authority to make final determinations as to whether clothing or grooming is or is not within this policy. If the principal determines that a student’s grooming or clothing violates the school’s dress code, the student will be given an opportunity to correct the problem at school and return to the classroom. If the problem cannot be corrected at school, the principal will work with the student and parent to obtain an acceptable change of clothing for the student in a way that minimizes loss of instructional time. The administration reserves the right to determine any inappropriate dress that it feels is disruptive to the school environment. Parents and students are encouraged to address and resolve concerns related to the Dress and Grooming Policy at the campus level. The principal will assess and determine compliance or non-compliance with the Dress and Grooming Policy, and will assign corresponding consequences for violation of this policy. Repeated or severe offenses may result in more serious disciplinary action in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct.

• Hair, by color or design, may not create a distraction to the learning environment. Non- natural hair color is permitted. If designs are shaved into the hair, they must be school appropriate and may not condone or represent drugs, gangs, alcohol, profanity, violence, obscenity, or anything deemed inappropriate by school administration.
• Students may not wear the following: tongue rings, lip rings, eyebrow rings, ear gauges, spacers, facial jewelry such as hoops or rings, or facial decorations. Students may, however, wear one small nose stud.
• Caps, hats, bandannas, hair rollers, hair curlers, and other similar hair grooming items, shall not be worn by students in the school building. If students are wearing a shirt or jacket with a hood or a hoodie, the hood must remain down.
• Students may not wear clothing that advertises by name or symbol any products that are not permitted in schools, including, but not limited to the following: drugs, alcohol, profanity or suggestive slogans, tobacco, obscenity, violence or gangs.
• Students may wear shorts of appropriate length, or skirts of an appropriate length, at or about mid-thigh or longer, when fitted at the natural waistline. Should jeans/pants have frays, rips, or tears above the mid-thigh (appropriate length of shorts), students must wear leggings underneath the jeans.
• Shirts must overlap the waistband of pants, skirts, or shorts.
• Clothing which, in the opinion of the professional staff, would be deemed a distraction to the learning environment or offensive for school in general, shall not be allowed, including, but not limited to the following: trench coats, mini-skirts, pajama pants, decorative teeth coverings or teeth jewelry, halter or tube tops, split sides, midriffs, sagging pants, bare shoulder tops, see-through clothing, fish net tops, or running/spandex shorts.
• Yoga pants, leggings, and jeggings may be worn if the shirt drapes to mid-thigh.
• All students must wear appropriate, non-visible undergarments.
• For health reasons, students are required to wear shoes appropriate for the school setting. House shoes or slippers are not appropriate for school. Flip flops or slides are not appropriate for elementary students.
• As tattoos are not legal prior to the age of 18 without parental consent, CFB discourages underage tattoos. Tattoos may not create a distraction to the learning environment.