With more than half of the surveys returned out of the 2,000 sent out, the response to Lawrence students from kindergarten through eighth grade wearing school uniforms was overwhelmingly positive, district officials said during a town hall-style meeting on June 22.
Along with implementing the Princeton Plan, where students will be grouped by grade level at three schools: the Number Two, Number Four and middle school; the children will be donning shirts, pants and skorts in Lawrence’s representative blue and gold colors, when school reopens in September. The Number Five School is being leased to the Shulamith School, a yeshiva for girls that will use the Cedarhurst building for their first to eighth grade school and their new high school.
The Number Four School will be known as the Early Childhood Center and will be home to the pre-k and kindergarten students. Along with the first- and second-graders at the Number Two School, which is now the Primary School, the kindergarteners will wear uniform shirts or shirts with school graphics.
Grades three, four and five that will comprise the Elementary School at the Broadway Campus (in the middle school building) will wear yellow or gold collared three-button long or short sleeve polo shirts with navy bottoms. Options include the skort — a pair of shorts with a flap across the front, back or both to give the appearance of a skirt — Bermuda shorts, capris or pants.
Students at the Middle School at the Broadway Campus, grades six, seven and eight, will wear light blue tops with navy bottoms with the skort, Bermuda shorts, capris or pants option. A vest or sweater can also be worn to enhance the outfit district officials said. For all students jeans are not part of the uniform. Specific shoes and belts are not mandated.