The Lake Mills Band Department is dedicated to providing outstanding musical experiences and opportunities to its students while helping them grow into responsible, mature adults. To make these experiences successful, we require discipline, organization, and commitment to the program. 

As a result of these high expectations, discipline, leadership, and social opportunities, students will have the opportunity to develop valuable life skills such as leadership, responsibility, dependability, time management, communication skills, teamwork and collaboration, goal-setting, and a positive self-image as well as the musical abilities needed to be a successful musician. 

Being part of the band is to be seen as an honor and students will be expected to help serve as role models for the school and other organizations within it. Band is not meant to be a one-year elective, but rather a course of study on personal and musical development throughout a person's life. Students are therefore encouraged and expected to participate in band throughout all their years in school, and throughout the rest of their lives.