The Paideia dress code is designed to set students apart as students, young people who treat their vocation with gratitude and respect. Just as an athlete wears the uniform of his team or a doctor wears the uniform of his profession, a student wears the uniform of his vocation.
The school’s goal is to set a dress code that (1) creates an atmosphere conducive to diligent study, (2) teaches the student to look appealing, (3) affirms the God-ordained differences between men and women, (4) is reasonable for parents to obtain, and (5) is easy for teachers and staff to enforce. If you have questions about any details not clarified here, we encourage you to ask a staff member.
To mark our assemblies as special events, every Friday will be a “dress-up day,” with students wearing their best uniforms. Please consult the list below to see what items are appropriate for Dress-Up Days.
Because secondary students (grades 7th-12th) are learning to take ownership and responsibility, it is a disservice to them to allow them to break dress code without consequences. If secondary students arrive to school without the proper dress code items, they will be sent to the office to call home to ask for those items to be dropped off. After the first infraction, secondary students will not be allowed to attend class until they are in the correct dress code attire and will remain in the office and marked absent until they are in the appropriate dress code apparel. This includes ties (boys and girls on Fridays) and belts (boys on Fridays).
Although our modern culture continues to blur the distinction between the sexes, Paideia believes and teaches that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. Male and female students should present themselves in a manner that affirms the way God created them.
Parents should train their children to not only wear the appropriate dress code items, but also to wear them well. The general principle is not, “What can I get away with?” but instead, “How can I honor the school, my teachers, and my fellow students with my clothing?” Teaching your children how to press their white button-down is a gift of respect the child can give to others.
Parents are not required to purchase dress code items from a specific brand except for blazers (9th-11th) and ties (7th-11th) from French Toast or Land’s End; and Paideia-logo quarter-zip sweatshirts, full zip fleeces, vests, or sweaters from the Paideia office with in-house embroidered logo.
Please write your name clearly inside each uniform piece, especially in sweaters and blazers. It is impossible for us to tell who owns the sweater hung over the fence unless a name is written in it.
The 2026-2027 dress code has not changed substantively from the previous year, but more clarifications have been added to help families understand policies and links have been updated to reflect that embroidered logo items should now be ordered directly from Paideia.
Click on the buttons below to download a PDF of the dress code or to order embroidered Paideia logo items.