• Dress and Grooming (All Grade Levels)

    The district's dress code is established to teach grooming and hygiene, prevent disruption, minimize safety hazards and maintain a positive learning climate.  Students and parents may determine a student's personal dress and grooming standards, provided that they comply with the following: Dress Code applies at all school sponsored events. Athletic teams and extracurricular organizations may have higher standards than these regarding dress code. Refer to your coach or sponsor’s handbook for this information. 

    • All clothing must be worn in the manner for which it was designed.

    • Patches, ornaments, armbands, buttons, insignia, or clothing with sayings or advertisements that are in bad taste, indecent, unpatriotic, or disruptive may not be worn. No clothing that advertises alcohol or drugs will be allowed. 

    • Clothes must be of sufficient length and style to cover all undergarments.  Straps on shirts without sleeves must be at least 2 ½ inches wide (approximately the width of three fingers), and all sleeveless shirts must fit snugly at the armpit.

    • Boys may not wear sleeveless shirts during the school day.

    • Shorts, Dresses, Skirts and “skorts” must be no shorter than 3” above the top of the knee.  Wind shorts are not allowed.

    • Shorts and pants should have nothing written across the seat. 

    • All secondary students (Grades 6-12) must wear a shirt that is long enough to be tucked-in if requested to do so. 

    • Students must have hair that is a natural color (Blonde, Brunette, Black, Brown, Red). Streaks of unnatural hair color will not be allowed. 

    • Leggings can only be worn with a long shirt that covers a student's backside. 

    • See-through clothing may not be worn.

    • No headwear (caps/hats, hoodies, bandannas, scarves) may be worn in the school building. 

    • Male students may not have hair that extends below the shoulder. Hair may not obstruct a student’s vision or a view of the student's face.  

    • Mohawks and “Faux Hawks” will not be permitted.  If the hair is “spiked”, the “spike” may not stick up more than 1-inch longer than the surrounding hair.  

    • Facial hair is not permitted.  Sideburns must not extend below the earlobes.

    • Visible body piercings (excluding girls’ earrings) are not allowed. Bandaids may not be used to cover visible piercings. 

    • Students are not allowed to wear gauges. 

    • No “sagging” pants will be allowed. Belts are required if needed.  

    • Tattoos are not allowed to be visible.  They must be covered at all times. 

    • Students are expressly prohibited from wearing the following articles of clothing at school, including but not limited to:
          *pajamas or house shoes
          *wallet (or similar) chains
          *sunglasses

    • Tears, rips, or holes that show skin, are not allowed higher than three inches above the knee. 

    • Garments from or representing another public or private school district other than Era ISD will not be permitted. 

    **The principal has final judgment on whether a student is in compliance with dress code standards**