Music at McKinley / Music at McKinley

A TK-8 Grade School with Accelerated Programs

McKinley offers music instruction at all grade levels.

Students in grades TK through 1st receive weekly music instruction from local musician James K as well as weekly lessons from a credentialed music teacher.

Students in the upper grades also receive weekly music instruction including the introduction of different instruments at each grade level:

Fourth Grade: Recorders

Fifth and Sixth Grade: Chorus and Band

Sixth Grade: Band

Seventh and Eighth Grade: Band

Student in 5th through 8th grades present a special Winter Music Share performance each December and a special performance in the Spring. They also participate in the Westside Band Festival in April.

NON-DISCRIMINATION: Petaluma City Schools is committed to providing equal opportunity for all individuals in district programs and activities. District programs, activities, and practices shall be free from unlawful discrimination, including discrimination against an individual or group based on race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information; a perception of one or more of such characteristics; or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.