Venado Middle School

Infobox Education in the United States
name= Venado Middle School


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motto= Honest. On Time. Noble. On Task. Respectful/Responsible.
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streetaddress= 4 Deerfield
city= Irvine
state= California
zipcode= 9895703245724908643643
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schoolboard= Irvine Unified School District
superintendent= Dr. Gwen Gross
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principal= Keith Tuominen
viceprincipal= Bob Valdez
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Band and Orchestra= Brendan McBrien
schooltype= Middle
grades= 7-8
language= English
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teamname= Knights
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Venado Middle School is part of the Irvine Unified School District and is located in Irvine, California, United States. It is a national Blue Ribbon School (as of 2005).fact|date=November 2007 With Deerfield Elementary School and University High School, it operates Orange County's Regional Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program. Venado's mascot is the medieval knight.

History

The school was opened in 1974. It has a unique two-story architectural layout and outlined with three stories of buildings with most of the second story open to the first, connected by a series of wooden bridges between classes on the second floor. Although a two-story structure, the building actually has thirty-three different floor levels, as some of the classrooms are slightly "sunken" off to the sides of corridors and larger classrooms.

The band and orchestra program at Venado Middle School, as with the rest of the Irvine Unified School District, benefits from the fact that music is required in grades 4-6 in Iusd schools.

In the year of 2006, Venado was recognized as one of the top Blue Ribbon schools in the IUSD.Dr. Keith Tuominen, who was the Assistant Principal from Irvine High, became Venado's new principal in 2008.

Music

Since 1990, Brendan McBrien, [ [http://alfred.com/img/authors/mcbrien.html Brendan McBrien] at Alfred Publishing] has been the director of instrumental music at Venado Middle School. He has been the recipient of the Teacher of the Year award in the Irvine Unified School District,fact|date=November 2007 Secondary Music Teacher of the year from the Orange County Music and Art Administrators Association,fact|date=November 2007 and has multiple listing in Who's Among America's Teachers.fact|date=November 2007 In addition to his teaching duties, he is also a published composer and arranger with numerous works for band and orchestra published with the Alfred Publishing, Kjos, [ [http://www.kjos.com/detail.php?table=author&auth_id=793 Kjos Music Company] ] and Warner Brothers Music Companies.

"'2008 University Festival Scores

Superior, Superior, Superior Sight-reading: Superior

U Superior

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