Dress Codes

2022-2023 PISD Dress Code and Grooming Information 
The district’s dress code is established to teach grooming and hygiene, instill discipline, prevent disruption, avoid safety hazards, and teach respect for authority. 
Pleasanton ISD takes pride in the appearance of its students. Students and parents may determine a student’s personal dress and grooming standards, provided they comply with the guidelines below. Any form of dress that attracts undue attention, is unsafe, disrupts school, is considered gang related or detracts from the learning process is not acceptable. School administrators, with the input and support of faculty members, have the final decision in determining and enforcing student dress and grooming standards at school and at all school related activities. Parents are expected to be knowledgeable and supportive of the dress and grooming guidelines. 
Student ID’s: 
Students are required to wear their ID badges visibly at all times while they are on campus during the school day. Although they may be required for admissions to school events, students are not required to wear but must carry their ID badges at school events. ID badges may not be defaced, front or back, for any reason. Students should treat an ID badge like any official document. ID badges that are defaced may be confiscated and the student will be required to purchase a new badge prior to the start of school on the next school day. Replacements for lost or confiscated ID badges can be purchased in the library at specified times. 
Clothing: 
Clothing shall be sized to fit the student. Students are expected to come to school looking clean, neat, and modest in appearance. All students are required to wear undergarments that cannot be seen through the outer clothing. Physical development of the student should be a consideration in determining the appropriate time for certain undergarments. 
Pants: 

• Pants will be worn fitted at the waist and crotch and pants legs should not drag the ground.
• Oversized sagging and/or baggy pants will not be allowed. “Bagginess” will be determined by the campus administration.
• Shreds or holes in any clothing that shows skin or undergarments above mid-thigh are not allowed. Holes or shreds in jeans are allowed as long as the holes or shreds are below mid-thigh.
• Leggings and yoga pants may be worn provided the overgarment/ top is longer than mid-thigh.
• Pajama pants/bottoms are prohibited.

• Skirts, dresses, skorts, and split skirts will be permitted provided they are no shorter than 2 ½” (narrowest part of a dollar bill) above the kneecap, front and back.
• Shorts are allowed providing they are appropriately fitted, no shorter than mid-thigh when standing. Bicycle shorts, form fitting shorts worn alone are prohibited.

• Tank tops, halter tops, exposed-midriff blouses, muscle shirts, blouses/dresses with spaghetti straps, strapless and/or low-cut tops, exposed backs, see-through clothing, and tanks with oversized armholes are not permitted.
  
• Undershirts cannot be worn alone.
•  A single shirt cannot be less than two inches wide on the shoulder strap. Necklines on blouses may not be lower than an individual’s underarm.
• No jackets or coats longer than mid-thigh length will be allowed.

• Appropriate footwear should be worn at all times. Because of daily PE, tennis shoes are encouraged at the Primary and Elementary campuses.
  
• House shoes/slippers, cleats, steel-toed shoes, and roller/wheeled shoes are not permitted.

• No student may wear hoods (hoodies), hats, caps, visors or any other headgear including sunglasses in the buildings on campus at any time unless specific permission is granted by campus administration.

• Only the following body-piercing ornaments will be allowed on school property or at school sponsored events: up to two earrings per ear; and, up to one clear flush mounted nose piercing. No body piercing ornaments can be covered with a bandage or any other device. Any device through the hole is considered a body-piercing ornament, including gauges.
  
• Ear gauges, facial, skin, or body piercing rings or ornaments are prohibited.
• Tattoos will be covered at all times. (The school will not provide bandages or any other coverings. It is the responsibility of the students to have their tattoos covered before arriving on campus.)

• Hair should be neat, clean, and not touch the eyebrows in front or interfere with vision.
  
• Maintained/neatly trimmed beards and mustaches are allowed. Facial hair shall be clean, groomed, and a natural color.
• Hair that is dyed an unnatural color, such as bright red, blue, pink, green, orange or a similar color is not permitted.
• Students may not cut designs or patterns in their hair or eyebrows.

• Clothing or accessories that depict pictures, emblems, or writings that are lewd, offensive, vulgar, or obscene.
• Clothing or accessories which advertises, depicts, or promotes tobacco, alcoholic beverages, drugs, illegal substances, and/or gang related signs, symbols, or activities.
• Inappropriate gang-related apparel shall include but not be limited to baggy pants, insignia clothing, colors identified by local law enforcement agencies, visible rosaries, bandanas, baseball caps worn in a particular manner, and/or shoelaces of specific colors.