Parents and Students

The link below will open a PDF file of the Elementary Student Handbook.   

elementary student handbook

The link below will open a PDF copy of the RCS Secondary Student Handbook.  

SECONDARY STUDENT HANDBOOK

Code of Conduct

Academic Eligibility

All students are encouraged to take part in all extracurricular and athletic activities.  They are also expected to study, complete assignments on time, and learn a great many things.  Individual coaches and advisors may set specific expectations for the students taking part in extracurricular and athletic activities.  These will be explained in and included with the training rules and introductory materials provided to students and parents by the Athletic Department.

Teachers may require that students report for extra help from 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm each day.  The additional 45 minutes is part of the regular school day. 

Students who make the effort to get additional instruction regularly will be more successful.  Students who have athletic practices at another site after school are still required to attend after school help if assigned by a teacher.  Coaches will not assign consequences to students who are late for practice due to attending extra help at school.

 Eligibility for Attendance at athletic games and/or extra-curricular activities

A. Students who are suspended from school on a day of an athletic game or practice session, party, school dance, or other school affair scheduled after regular school hours are not eligible for participation or attendance at such events.

 B. Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes to be present for extracurricular events that evening.  This includes participants and spectators.  If a student is tardy to school for three days in a month they will not be allowed to participate in ANY extra-curricular activity the day of their third tardy and any subsequent days that they are tardy that month.  This includes games, practices, dances, theatrical performances, or other extra-curricular activities.  This does not include band/chorus concerts as these are a graded part of the curriculum.  If a student is tardy to school two days in a month they will not be allowed to participate in open gym for the rest of the quarter.  A student is considered tardy if they arrive to school late.  The only exceptions to this will be a doctor’s note, a funeral, or a previously cleared college visit/job shadow.  The days reset at the beginning of each month.

 Eligibility for Participation

All students in grades 7-12 will receive progress reports at 5 weeks and 10 weeks.  At each pre-selected date, teachers will have students log into their SchoolTool account to check their grades.  Teachers will communicate with students that if they are failing they will need to meet the obligations set forth below.  The office will mail home mid-term report cards at the 5 week mark.  

 At 5 weeks:

The 5 week report will determine extra-curricular eligibility.  Students who are failing a subject (64% or below) will be removed from unstructured study hall and placed in a structured study hall during the school day.  They will also be required to stay after school. The number of nights they need to stay after school is equal to the number of courses that they are failing.  This will occur Monday through Thursday.  If a student doesn’t stay after school the required nights, they will be given a detention to be served in addition to their required nights the next week.  Administration may decide to have a student serve ISS, if no effort was made to stay after school.   Students who are failing 2 or less subjects will be allowed to fully participate in after school activities. A student who is failing a course will remain on the eligibility list and will need to comply with all requirements of being on said list until their grades are brought up to passing.  

 Students who are failing 3 or more subjects (64% or below) will have to meet the same criterion above, however, until their grades are brought up to passing.  If a student who was failing 3 or more subjects (64% or below) brings one of their subjects up to passing when a new list is generated will be allowed to participate under the same conditions as those students who were failing 2 or less subjects (64% or below).  If a student who was failing 2 subjects or less (64% or below) ends up failing a third subject when a new list is generated, they will follow the same criterion above for student passing 2 or more subjects.

Students in 7^th and 8^th grade who are participating in a Modified, JV or Varsity level activity, or who are taking high school level courses in middle school, will also be held to these standards.  9^th grade students who are playing on a modified team will be subjected to the ineligibility policy. 

All students are expected to give proper attention to personal cleanliness and to dress appropriately for school and school functions.  Students and their parents have the primary responsibility for acceptable student dress and appearance. Teachers and all other district personnel should exemplify and reinforce acceptable student dress and help students develop an understanding of appropriate appearance in the school setting.  

Here are specific guidelines: 

• No clothing/personal items (buttons, backpacks, hats, accessories) that include items that are vulgar, obscene, libelous, or denigrate others on account of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender/gender identity, sex, sexual orientation or disability. 
• No clothing/personal items that promote and/or endorse the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, weapons, and/or encourage other illegal or violent activities.  
• No shirts that expose the ribs (i.e. cut-off tees with excessively large arm holes).
• No footwear that creates a safety hazard for the student or other students. 
• No shorts or pants that expose the student’s buttocks. 
• Nothing sheer or see-through may be worn without an undershirt.
• The stomach and shoulders cannot be exposed at the same time.   If the shoulders are exposed with straps that are less than two inches in width and the stomach is exposed, a shirt must be worn over top of the stomach/shoulder-baring shirt.
• Skirts cannot be higher than 5 inches above the kneecap

Students who violate the student dress code shall be required to modify their appearance by covering or removing the offending item, and if necessary or practical, replacing it with an acceptable item. Any student who refuses to do so shall be considered insubordinate.

Updated 9/1/23

Gender Rights Letter to Community

The document below is the district's comprehensive attendance policy for the 2023-2024 school year. 

7110: Comprehensive Student Attendance Policy 

Updated 9/1/23

The Romulus Central School District has developed communication protocols to promote direct, open, and respectful interactions so that problems and concerns can be worked out quickly and efficiently while also providing an opportunity to share compliments. The link below will give you access to the appropriate communication channels for a variety of topics.

Chain of Communication