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John Glenn School Corporation · Walkerton and North Liberty
North Liberty's music is made, institutionally, twelve months a year in a school system the town shares. North Liberty Elementary School feeds Urey Middle School and John Glenn High School (Walkerton) in the John Glenn School Corporation, and the corporation's band program is a single ladder: sixth-grade band at both Walkerton and North Liberty elementary schools, seventh- and eighth-grade band at Urey, and at the high school a Concert Band, Jazz Band, Pep Band and the John Glenn Falcon Pride Marching Band — the full school-band stack, directed as one system (John Glenn Bands, directors page, read November 2026). North Liberty's children enter that ladder in their own town, at their own school, in sixth grade; the town's music history and the corporation's are the same history from that rung up.
The system's present director is a documented figure. Nick Lieto, Director of Bands, came to the John Glenn School Corporation after seven years directing grades 6–12 at LaVille and a year in Minatare, Nebraska, where he taught band, choir and elementary music; he is a 2014 graduate of Western Michigan University. The bands' own site describes 'a keen eye for revitalizing and growing band programs,' and the corporation's minutes show the ladder working at every rung — the Walkerton and North Liberty sixth-grade Cadet bands giving their first performance together at the holiday concert of December 2017 under the recognitions the board recorded that month.