Dress Code
Benchmark Elementary School recognizes student dress and grooming are a matter of personal choice. The dress code for Benchmark School reflects a concern for each child’s comfort, safety, and cleanliness.
Benchmark Elementary School dress code prohibits students from the following when on school property:
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Footwear · Shoeless · Flip-flops · Shoes without a back strap · Heelies · Platform shoes · High heels |
Head · Wearing hats inside buildings on campus · Hoop/dangling earrings, nose rings, eyebrow rings, and lip rings (safety reasons) · Sharing of hats and other headgear · Hair that is not groomed · Hair that covers the eyes. Long hair should be pulled up or clipped back. · Hats that display obscene language, symbols, tobacco, alcohol and/or drugs. |
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Tops · Wearing halter, tube, crop, shear tops, or thin strapped tank tops without an under layer that provides proper coverage- midsection must be covered. · Tank tops straps that are less than two finger width. · Athletic tank tops, where side of abdomen is showing. · Clothing that displays obscene language, symbols, tobacco, alcohol, and/or drugs.
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Bottoms · Pants/shorts that are worn in a fashion that prevents students from participating in full and active participation in regular school activities. · Short shorts or short miniskirts/dresses: (Bottom hem of shorts must have an inseam of 4 inches or longer. Old Navy has shorts of this length. Short skirts, shorter than finger tips must have shorts worn under.) · Spikes, chains, or wallet chains.
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Any educational distraction due to dress will be addressed on an individual basis. If a student is found in violation of the dress code policy, parents will be contacted to bring a change of attire.
