Musique Unified School District

Musique Unified School District
Motto	Enlightening Students, Empowering Minds, Educating the Future
Serves	Musique
Superintendent	Missa_Solemnis
Offices	0 East Meridian Street

The Musique Unified School District (often abbreviated as MUSD) is the public education sector of the city of Musique. MUSD is headquartered in its administration building located at 0 East Meridian Street.

MUSD is known for both the quality of its programs and its innovative campuses, which are the largest and most complex on the server.

Measure S

Musique voters passed Measure S, a bond measure, to provide funding to MUSD to build new facilities and to upgrade existing ones. It will provide $200 Million over 20 years to build up a world-class unified school district for the city of Musique.

Philosophy

Overview

MUSD aims to provide the best possible education to its students, providing them with a well-rounded curriculum throughout their schooling years. MUSD's diverse curriculum is designed to allow students to tailor their own educational experience to match their own personal interests. As a result, MUSD's secondary schools employ a no-restriction open enrollment policy, meaning any student can enroll in any course without any restrictions. Each school's administration and teaching faculty does put in place recommended pre-requisite skills for each class, but students are only recommended, not required, to fulfill all of those recommendations.

MUSD's core educational philosophy revolves around the district-wide pillars of achievement, colloquially referred to as "the three A's": Academia, Arts, and Athletics. Students are exposed to each of the three areas of the three A's throughout elementary school but are allowed to have more liberty over their scheduling in middle school and high school. All secondary school students are required to take at least one class in each of the three categories each grading period, however.

Curriculum

The curricula developed by MUSD is designed to align with, and surpass, the Musique Department of Education Content Standards (MDECS). The MDECS provide a comprehensive and rigorous set of standards that all Musique schools, public and non-public, as well as any other schools that have formally adopted the MDECS system, are required to cover in the respective courses offered to students with the objective of attaining mastery of each topic and skill. To assess the level of mastery attained by MUSD's students, the district participates in the annual Musique Department of Education Assessment of Mastery (MDEAM). MUSD students are permitted to opt-out of the assessment if their parents/guardians do not wish them to take it.

Quality of Faculty

MUSD prides itself in the quality of faculty retained by the district. All faculty members are employed under contract, with the contracts coming up for renewal every two years. Faculty members are regularly assessed by a team of education experts, district personnel, and members of the community. Faculty assessments occur randomly throughout the school year. Faculty members are automatically considered for contract renewal unless an issue comes up from an assessment or from a district reporting system. If an issue arises that is deemed an appropriate reason for termination of the faculty member's contract, the motion must be unanimously approved by a panel of individuals made up of the superintendent, the assistant superintendents, the site principal, the site assistant principal, all of the site's department chairs (or another faculty member of the respective department if the affected individual is a chair), at least two other faculty members selected at random, and at least two community members selected at random. The voting will take place following a hearing during which results of evaluations, as well as the contents of reports received by the district, are presented to the panel, and the affected individual is given the opportunity to make a statement to the panel. Assessments of administrators are done in a similar manner, with panels made up of faculty carrying out evaluations and hearings.

Facilities

MUSD operates two elementary schools, a secondary school, a preschool, and various support spaces. Please note that visitors are required to register with the main office of any school site they visit.

Musique Preschool

Musique Preschool is located at 60 North Music Avenue. It serves children younger that Pre-K or Transitional Kindergarten age. Infobox coming soon.

Spruce Mountain Elementary

Spruce Mountain Elementary
Basics
Principal	[Vacant]
Assistant Principal	[Vacant]
Regions Served	Spruce Mountain Downtown
Address	251 North Music Avenue
Student Capacity (Normal)	480
Student Capacity (Expanded)	504
Instructional Spaces
Kindergarten	2 (AM and PM)
1st Grade	4
2nd Grade	4
3rd Grade	4
4th Grade	4
5th Grade	4
Special Education	1
Support Spaces	Science Lab Library-Media Center Extended Day Care Pre-K Transitional Kindergarten Music Room Visual Arts Theatre Arts Rehearsal Room Multi-Purpose Room/Auditorium Pre-K Transitional Kindergarten
Total Classrooms	31

Spruce Mountain Elementary is located at 251 North Music Avenue. Students who reside on the east side of the MRT Desert Line will be assigned to attend SME. As the first school constructed in Musique, Spruce Mountain Elementary is also the smallest and simplest, and the only school not initially constructed using funding from Measure S. Because of that, SME has gone under the most extensive renovations that are funded through Measure S to bring it up to standard with the other schools. SME is built out of brick, with a distinctive window frame design. Parking is available in the underground parking facility. Please do not park in reserved spaces. Student drop off is available on Music Street.

SME contains 24 general education classrooms, with four classrooms for each grade level from 1st grade through 5th grade, two classrooms for Kindergarten, and a Special Education classroom. The Lower Level of the main building boasts eight support spaces, including a science lab, two afterschool care rooms, a rehearsal room, a music room, a visual arts room, a theatre arts room, and a library-media center. The new administration and classroom building contains six of the 24 classrooms on the upper floor and the school administration on the ground floor. SME's student capacity is 480 but can be expanded to 504 when demand is high.

Glissando Hill Elementary

Glissando Hill Elementary
Basics
Principal	[Vacant]
Assistant Principal	[Vacant]
Regions Served	Glissando Hill
Address	101 North Glissando Avenue
Student Capacity (Normal)	600
Student Capacity (Expanded)	630
Instructional Spaces
Kindergarten	3 (AM and PM)
1st Grade	5
2nd Grade	5
3rd Grade	5
4th Grade	5
5th Grade	5
Special Education	2
Support Spaces	Science Lab Media Center Extended Day Care Pre-K Transitional Kindergarten Library Auditorium Rehearsal Room Music Room Visual Arts Theatre Arts
Total Classrooms	40

Glissando Hill Elementary, located at 101 North Glissando Avenue and serving students residing on the west side of the MRT Desert Line, was the second school to be constructed in Musique and the first site to be constructed using Measure S funding. It was constructed over a period of 4 months, and due to its novelty and thought-out design, the only upgrades done were the installation of new Lifts to replace EElevators. GHE is not slated to receive any other upgrades in the near future. GHE's iconic design primarily consists of glass, with some quartz accents. Parking is available in the on-site parking facilities below the school, accessible via Big Fat Cat Way; please take the elevators in the main facility up to the office to enter the school. Student drop off is available on Glissando Avenue.

GHE contains 30 general education classrooms, with five classrooms for each grade level from 1st grade through 5th grade, three classrooms for Kindergarten, and two Special Education classrooms. GHE also boasts a science lab, media center, library, auditorium/multi-purpose room, rehearsal space, theatre arts room, visual arts room, and music room. GHE's student capacity is 600 but can be expanded to 630 if necessary.

Musique Secondary School

Musique Secondary School
Basics
Principal	[Vacant]
Assistant Principal	[Vacant]
Regions Served	Spruce Mountain Glissando Hill Downtown
Address	0 West Music Avenue
Student Capacity (Normal)	1600
Student Capacity (Expanded)	1800
Courses
Core Subjects	Mathematics English History Science Physical Education Visual or Performing Arts
Electives	Journalism Yearbook Culinary Science Business Robotics Engineering World Languages
Instructional Spaces
Mathematics	8
English	7
History	8
Science	6
Physical Education	1
Visual and Performing Arts	6
Electives	7
Special Education	4
Support Spaces	Auditorium/Performing Arts Center Black Box Theatre Amphitheatre Gymnasium Athletic Fields and Courts Aquatics Center Library-Media Center Cafeteria Administrative Offices
Total Classrooms	47

Musique Secondary School is the third school to be built for the Musique Unified School District and the second to be built using Measure S funding. It is currently operating, and serves students from grade 6 to grade 12. MSS is located at 0 West Music Street and is the only secondary school in MUSD. MSS is built in the Spanish style with some modern influences. As it is the newest MUSD school, MSS is not slated to receive improvements.

On its university-like campus, MSS contains 47 instructional spaces, including classrooms for Mathematics, English, Science, History, World Languages, Photography, Culinary Science, Business, Journalism, Yearbook, Special Education, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, Engineering, Robotics, and Music. MMS also boasts many support spaces including a library-media center, a gymnasium, athletic fields, a performing arts center, and a black box theatre. The student capacity of MSS is 1600-1800 students. Parking is available in an on-site facility, accessible via Music Street. Student drop off is available on Park Avenue and in the parking facility.