Chapter 8: Unit districts get by on less
When Elgin Area School District U-46 Superintendent Connie Neale received a $60,000 raise to bring her total pay package to more than $400,000, taxpayers called it highway robbery.
By some measures, though, Neale's January deal was a steal.
Neale ran a district with 40,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Nearly 20 miles to the east, Northwest Suburban High School District 214 and its six feeder elementary districts claim 36,000 children K-12 -- and seven superintendents.
SCHOOL FINANCE 101Chapter 8Feeder and unit districts
The Daily Herald combined 2005-06 statistics for area high schools and their feeder elementary districts. These are presented here next to unit districts (single K-12 districts) for comparison. After each high school district are its feeder districts in parentheses. We then list the total revenue for each unit and combined high school/feeder district, the number of students, total revenue per student, the amount of revenue from local sources (mostly property taxes and school fees), the administrative expenditures per student, superintendent compensation (excluding health insurance costs) and superintendent compensation per student. View reportAlso available is a downloadable Excel file with the same information
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Here are the 2005-06 pay packages for area school superintendents, listing salary; bonuses (also includes all annuities, stipends, payments for unused sick and vacation days, and car allowance); pension costs (includes all payments by district to health pension and retirement pension plans); total pay package (does not include health, dental, life or disability insurance costs); years as superintendent in district; total years as a superintendent; ADA (district's average daily attendance); and number of schools in district. Note: * means district did not respond to survey; pay figure obtained from state report. View report
Also available is a downloadable Excel file with the same information
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Chapter 6
Administrator pay vs. teacher pay
The numbers: Administrator vs. teacher pay
Here is the average pay for teachers and administrators in area school
districts as reported on the 1998 and 2006 school report cards,with the
amount of change over the 8-year period. View report
Also available is a downloadable Excel file with the same information
[XLS document]
Chapter 5