DRESS CODE
A higher standard of dress encourages greater respect for individuals, scholars and others, and results in a higher standard of behavior. Our dress code guidelines indicate appropriate school dress during normal school days. SOMERSET COLLEGE PREP reserves the right to interpret these guidelines and/or make changes during the school year. Scholars are expected to follow these guidelines. Every scholar in attendance shall wear the school uniform. Dress code also applies on the school bus, as it is an extension of the school. This includes students in dual enrollment, also, when on campus.
House Lanyards and School Issued Student IDs are a mandatory part of our uniform. The lanyard worn must be of the House to which the student is assigned. Wearing a lanyard of a House to which the student is not assigned is a violation of dress code.
Uniform policy Monday through Thursday:
Tops
All school shirts will have the school logo in school colors and be purchased from the official school uniform vendor and all outerwear will be school uniform vendor issued :
High School = (burgundy or white) and Middle School = (grey or gold)
• School Polo style shirts
• School Oxford style shirts
• Club Shirts on club days only
• Game Day (In-season sports only on game days)
• School hoodies/jackets/outerwear (students must have a school shirt underneath hoodie and jackets, excluding PE shirt)
Items purchased from your choice of vendors:
Bottoms
• Docker-style pants/slacks
• Jeans (any color solid shade with no logos, markings, or prints)
• Pants worn at the waist
• Shorts (finger-tip length or longer) worn at the waist (no athletic style shorts)
• Capris worn at the waist
• Skirts (finger-tip length or longer) worn at the waist
• No sagging pants
Shoes: Street shoes with backs & closed toe only. Shoes must always be tied.
Hair: Hair must be neat and clean and without covering (with the exception of religious exemption).
PE Dress Code
• Phased out/previously purchased PE uniforms are still permitted.
• PE uniforms must be purchased online from the official school uniform vendor or from the PE teachers at school (while supplies last).
• High School PE uniforms are dark gray with black shorts
• Middle School PE uniforms are light gray with black shorts
Clothing Items not permitted:
Wearing any of these items will result in a dress code violation (Repeated dress code violations will result in detention(s) and/or referral(s). Please see our discipline Matrix.
• Any shirt not purchased from the official school uniform vendor
• Any outerwear not purchased from the official school uniform vendor
• Any bottoms with frays, rips, or tears (regardless of whether skin can…
A scholar in violation of the dress code will be asked to correct on site or to call home for appropriate attire. Please see dress code violation progressive discipline steps:
• 1st Offense: Lunch Detention
• 2nd Offense: After school detention
• 3rd Offense: Saturday Detention
• 4th Offense: 1 day suspension and probation
• 5th Offense: 2 day suspension and probation, and not welcome back the following year.
• 6th Offense: Dismissal.
Parents elect to have their children attend Somerset College Preparatory Academy with full acknowledgement and understanding of the expectations, policies and consequences.
Purchasing uniform shirts from approved vendors is a policy requirement. Parents may not purchase an article of clothing and have it embroidered with the SOMERSET COLLEGE PREP logo. THIS IS A COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Uniform policy for Dress Down Days:
• Any of the regular uniform pieces are permissible.
• SOMERSET COLLEGE PREP T-Shirts, Class Tee, Senior Hoodies, club shirts, and any other purchased fundraising item of clothing are permissible.
• Students choosing to participate in dress down days must adhere to any theme set forth for the day
• Tank tops, spaghetti straps, crop tops, tops with inappropriate content/images are not permissible.
• Bottoms that are not fingertip length or longer, or with rips, tears, holes, frays are not permissible.
Game Days
* Certain sports teams may require scholars to wear their sport’s jerseys on game days.
* Certain sports teams may require scholars to be professionally dressed on game days.