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Dress Code

2026-2027 Dress Code

The school’s dress code is designed to facilitate an environment where the school pursues its purpose of providing students an education based on academic excellence while ensuring safety, limiting distractions, and keeping the focus on learning. The cooperation of the student and the parent/guardian is necessary in maintaining the standards of the school’s dress code and dress code violations may result in appropriate disciplinary action. Coming to school each day with clothing in compliance with the dress code is a responsibility of both the student and the parent/guardian.  The following information is intended to clarify the School Advisory Council approved FMS Dress Code and should be used as a guide.

 

  1. Students MAY NOT wear head coverings including, but not limited to: caps, hats, hoods, skull caps, or scarves. Bandanas are prohibited for all students at all times.  
  2. Students MAY NOT wear clothing that is sexually suggestive or that features crude or vulgar messages; depicts drugs, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, violence, racial/ethnic clubs or gang affiliation in words, pictures or colors. 
  3. All pants and shorts are to be worn at the waist level with a belt (if necessary), with NO undergarments or other shorts showing.  (This is now state law). 
  4. Dresses, skirts, shorts, etc., are to be of appropriate length (with arms extended at your side; clothing must be longer than fingertips), with a finished hem, worn at the waist with NO undergarments showing.  
  5. Shirts must cover the chest, back and shoulders (no tank tops or spaghetti straps) and MAY NOT expose the midriff or bare sides, including when arms are extended above the head.  Shirts may not be tied. 
  6. Students MAY NOT wear leggings or spandex style bottoms of any variety.  
  7. Pajamas/sleepwear/bedroom clothes/clothing designed for sleepwear are prohibited. 
  8. Students MAY NOT wear bedroom shoes.
  9. Students may not wear hoodies, hooded jackets, or hooded coats.  From August-October
  10. Clothing containing rips, cuts, tears, and holes MUST BE BELOW the fingertips. Holes that reveal skin are only allowed below fingertips. Holes that reveal skin or undergarments above the fingertips are not allowed.
  11. Flip-flops, Crocs, Slides, bedroom shoes, and backless shoes are not allowed to be worn on campus. 

SITE & SAC Approved 4.7.26

This is not an all-inclusive list.  Administrative discretion will apply in some cases.

This dress code is subject to revision and updating at any time throughout the school year at the discretion of administration.

 

 

​​​​​​​Consequences For Infractions

For any infraction so egregious that is deemed a disruption to the learning environment, the student will be removed from the classroom and escorted to ISS so that they can call a parent to be supplied with appropriate attire or to remain for the duration of the day in ISS. 

  • Dress Code infractions are cumulative and are posted to FOCUS. Warnings do not have to be issued by the same teacher.
  • (Dress Code – If apparel is obscene or promotes illegal activities, drugs, discrimination, alcohol or tobacco products and/or exposes body parts- this results in immediate parent contact and a change of clothing, a referral is written and discipline INCLUDES the actions listed below).

  • (Parent contact, documented in FOCUS). The student will need to be provided with a proper change of clothing to wear for the remainder of the school day. The student will be placed in OFI until proper clothing is obtained. *The school will attempt to provide an appropriate option. (If available) * All staff and faculty are responsible for ensuring that all students are in compliance with the FMS Dress Code. The faculty or staff members responsible for monitoring students arriving by bus in the morning will be request student with violation to report to the front office to call their parents.

  • (Parent contact, documented in FOCUS). The student will need to be provided with a proper change of clothing to wear for the remainder of the school day. The student will be placed in OFI until proper clothing is obtained.

  • (Parent contacted, documented in FOCUS). (Office Referral written with list of infractions – not necessary if prior infractions were posted in FOCUS).  The student will need to be provided with a proper change of clothing to wear for the remainder of the school day.

  • (Parent contacted, documented in FOCUS). (Office Referral written with list of infractions – not necessary if prior infractions were posted in FOCUS). The student will need to be provided with a proper change of clothing to wear for the remainder of the school day.

  • The parent will be notified and the student will be assigned Out of School Suspension (OSS). Continued violations of the dress code will result in suspension from school, with the number of days increasing with each offense.