Dress Code

It is not the intent of the Muscogee County School District to dictate the quality or style of clothing worn, but rather an effort to encourage good habits and acceptable group behavior. Student dress and personal appearance should reflect dignity and pride in oneself and in the school. Therefore, a student shall not dress, groom, or wear or use emblems, insignias, badges or other symbols where the effect thereof is to distract unreasonably the attention of other students or otherwise to cause disruption or interference with the operation of the school.

It is prohibited for any student to wear clothing items which advertise alcoholic beverages, sex, tobacco, obscene, crude or suggestive messages or use of profanity. Designs or insignias that are part of a haircut, satanic symbols, gang-related badges, insignias and colors; logos or symbols with denigrate social or ethnic groups are also prohibited. "Fake" alcohol or drug advertisement is also disallowed.

MCSD Grades 6-12 Dress Code Summary:

Shirts

No undergarments are to be worn as outer garments
No midriffs should be exposed
No see-through shirts/blouses
No tank tops, spaghetti straps, tube tops
Nothing that advocates drugs, sex, alcohol, violence, gangs, hate, or profanity
Shirts that are made for females that cover the midriff but move when the student sits may not be worn

Shoes

No shower shoes, flip flops, or house shoes

Pants

Pants are to be worn on or above the waist
No see-through pants
If pants can be worn properly on or above the waist, no belt is required
Sweat pants, wind pants, pants with holes are not to be worn
No pants are to be worn bound at the ankle

Dresses and Skirts

Dresses and skirts may be worn with the length to be no higher than three (3) inches above the top of the knee cap.

Shorts

Shorts may be worn with the length to be no higher than three (3) inches above the top of the knee cap.

Coats

Hooded garments may be worn to school as long as the hoods are not worn indoors.

Hats

No head coverings i.e., bandanas, do rags, sweat bands

Jewelry

No jewelry with reference to gangs, drugs, hate, violence, or sex is allowed. Items such as chains on a belt, wallet, etc. and items with spikes are not permitted.

No oversized clothing is allowed.

Each school is expected to create a progressive discipline plan to address dress code violations using out of school suspension as the last intervention.

Dress Code Violation:

1. Administrative Detention/ Requested to leave school to change clothes
2. Parent conference
3. Suspension