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Bradford Preparatory School

9th - 12th Grade Dress Code

Bradford Prep School has a mission to provide an educational environment that develops students with a focus on college and career readiness.  This dress code provides guidelines, standards and enforcement procedures for student dress on campus during the school day and during other school-related activities.   

Parents are asked to partner with the school to monitor student attire to help adhere to the guiding principles set forth in this policy.  Principals may use their discretion in implementing the dress code.

 

Daily Required Attire

Please note: Clothes must be worn with opaque (non-see through) fabric in the front, back, and on the sides that, when standing or walking, covers and conceals a student’s undergarments, buttocks, private areas, and midriffs.    
 
  1. An opaque Top with continuous coverage (including undergarment straps) from the shoulders to the waistband in the front and the back
  2. A Bottom (pants, jeans, skirts, shorts, leggings, athletic pants)
  3. Shoes that are appropriate for any applicable physical activity.

 

Optional Attire

  1. Hats on designated days. Hats should not interfere with the ability to identify the face of any student. Students may not put the hood of any piece of clothing on while in the building.
  2. Religious headwear.

Prohibited Attire

Students may not wear anything with the following:

  1. Violent language, symbols or images including hate speech, obscenity, profanity, or pornography. 
  2. Images or language depicting or promoting the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco or any illegal item/activity.
  3. Accessories that could be considered dangerous or could be used as a weapon.
  4. Items that are not traditionally considered apparel.
  5. See-through clothing without opaque, compliant covering underneath.
  6. Pajamas (including flannel pants), swim wear or exposed undergarments.
  7. Strapless tops, halter tops or tops with only one strap.
  8. Clothing that exposes a bare midriff or undergarments
  9. Open backed tops.
  10. Clothing reasonably likely to create a substantial disruption to the educational process.
  11. Clothing that defames, degrades or is offensive to a gender, race, color, religious group, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, a physical or mental impairment or culture.
  12. No pants that are excessively sagging
  13. No facial piercings (beyond earrings and nose studs).

 

Enforcement of Dress Code

Any school dress code enforcement actions should minimize the potential loss of educational time. Staff concerns about student attire should be discussed discretely and privately to the extent practical.  Students in violation of the dress code will be provided two options to comply with the dress code during the school day:  

  1. Students will be asked to remove the problematic item or to put on their own alternative clothing, if already available at school, to comply with the dress code for the remainder of the school day; or
  2. If necessary, students’ parents/guardians may be called during the school day to bring alternative clothing for the student to comply with the dress code for the remainder of the school day.

Further, a student who violates the dress code may be subject to the Bradford Prep Discipline Policy.