STUDENT DRESS AND APPEARANCE CODE

Proper personal appearance encourages and promotes pride and concern for one's surroundings. Moreover, it represents a standard of order, respect, and responsibility the community can associate with Rocky Hill School. Thus, student appearance has a very real effect upon the quality of our learning environment.

The guidelines below are for all Middle and Upper School students. Lower School students may add sweat suits and T-shirts without writing/logo (or plain T-shirts) to the list of acceptable clothing.

Clothing should be neat and clean. It should fit reasonably and be worn in a traditional manner. Boys are required to wear shirts with collars. When worn beneath a sweater, however, shirts without collars are acceptable. Button-up shirts are to be buttoned except at the neck. Shirt tails and all undershirts must be completely tucked in; an exception is made for polos and other straight-hemmed shirts, which may be worn un-tucked. Girls must wear shirts that have sleeves and cover their shoulders. Shoes are to be worn at all times. Dress shorts (Bermuda shorts) are permissible after April 1 and before November 1. Shorts and skirts must be of an appropriate length (at least to the bottom of the student's finger tips when the arm is placed at his or her side).

Rocky Hill School reserves the right to request of all students that, with the exception of earrings, any form of body piercing is not to be displayed during the school day. This includes a wide range of bodily locations. Regardless of gender, only earrings in ears are acceptable displays of piercing during the school day. Strict adherence to this policy is expected of all Rocky Hill School students.

Student hair needs to be maintained in a neat and clean fashion. Outlandish and “shocking” colors (fluorescent colors, orange, red, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc…), and/or those colors intentionally designed to draw attention to the student, are unacceptable. If a student ignores the School's expectations in this regard, the Division Head reserves the right to request a change to a more appropriate color.

Boys must be clean shaven. Senior boys who have reached their eighteenth birthday after January 1 of their senior year are permitted to have manicured facial hair in the second semester of the academic year. This facial hair may be grown over a vacation, but may not “grow in” while school is in session.