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
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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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Electronics
Smart watches, ipads/ipods, e-readers, phones. (Phones must be turned into the front office for the day.)
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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.
