District 300 superintendent gets 4 percent raise

The Community Unit District 300 school board this week voted to increase Superintendent Fred Heid's base salary of $210,000 yearly by 4 percent retroactive to July 1, 2015.

Heid, 45, of Sleepy Hollow, was hired as the Algonquin-based district's chief executive officer in June of 2014. In September of that year, he became District 300's first bilingual superintendent after the Illinois State Board of Education approved his superintendent certification.

The school board outlined long-term incentive goals for increasing Heid's pay based on how the district, which serves more than 19,200 students in 27 schools, performs on statewide assessments, ACT, Advanced Placement and college readiness metrics, as well as improvement in attendance and graduation rates, and reductions in in-school and out-of-school suspensions.

Heid's incentive compensation could be up to 20 percent of his base salary - 10 percent for achieving academic goals, 5 percent for developing an incentive plan for administrators, and 5 percent for improving the district's average ACT score of 20.7.

In October, the school board also granted 4 percent yearly raises to the district's more than 1,400 teachers for each of the four years of the current contract.