In the next three years, West Creek Academy leaders envision that their elementary school students would connect to students in Korea every morning.

It would be a high-tech way to start every school day, which would go on to include music and performing arts lessons for students. And it’s part of the vision that has inspired hundreds of parents to enroll their youngsters at the Saugus Union School District’s newest elementary school.

Today is the last day to enroll in the school. About 700 students had applied by the end of last week.

Saugus Union recently opened the school’s doors to the community for the first time, drawing parents to line up for tours that took them through classrooms and playgrounds.

Emblem Elementary School parent Beverly Johnson hopes to enroll her future fourth- and sixth-grader at the school once Emblem closes for construction this year.

She likes that West Creek offers a curriculum based on performing arts and music, programs that, at other schools, are falling victim to state budget cuts, she said during the tour.

“It offers a broader spectrum of education for kids,” she said.

As state budget cuts leave educators with few options, officials at Saugus Union School District see West Creek Academy, to open in the fall, as an opportunity to showcase its academic program and its plans to prepare students for a global society.

The nearly 11-acre school was originally built to serve the newly constructed West Creek and West Hills neighborhoods, but the two areas would not generate enough students to open the school on their own.

Because school leaders wanted to open the state-of-the-art elementary school in the fall, West Creek is now an open-enrollment site.

The move represents a transition for Saugus Union because it gives parents more control over the education for their children, West Creek Principal Cory Pak said.

“They no longer need to be necessarily going to neighborhood schools,” he said.

The school will give extra focus on music in its first year.

“What we really want to do as a school is to make connections with schools around the world,” Pak said. “That’s one of the reasons we chose music as a key emphasis. We believe music is a universal language.”

Music practice times will vary, but students will have the option of violin, cello, keyboard and piano, he said.

Music will be mandatory for grades K-3 and students will receive 40 minutes of music instruction a week, he said.

Older students in grades four through six will have the option to take music, but can choose to enroll in chorus or performing arts, he said.

School leaders hope to expand the language program starting with Korean by the school’s third year.

“We would like to be able to teach our kids school wide conversational foreign languages,” he said. “The kids will be very comfortable hearing other languages.”

Kids who speak languages other than English will be encouraged to teach their classmates conversational phrases.

“I want kids to really enjoy speaking and listening and learning different languages,” he said.