Highest superintendent base salaries: Lake County, IL 2024-25
Superintendent base salaries across 37 Lake County, Illinois school districts, 2024-25. North Shore SD 112 leads at $358,588. ISBE; ranked by DistrictFacts.
- Districts ranked
- 37
- Period
- 2024-25
- Publication floor
- 8 districts
- Tie rule
- Equal values share a rank; the next rank skips.
- County definition
- The county holding the largest share of the district's land area (NCES EDGE, 2024–25).
ISBE Administrator and Teacher Salaries and Benefits (ATSB, SY 2024-25) Employment Information System (EIS) report: full-time District Superintendent base salary (position-level figure; individual names excluded).
Measure: District Superintendent base salary (EIS / ATSB).
Source: ISBE.
Data from Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) public files. DistrictFacts is not affiliated with or endorsed by any Illinois agency.
Ranked districts
- 1. North Shore SD 112 — $358,588
- 2. Waukegan CUSD 60 — $358,547
- 3. Deerfield SD 109 — $354,652
- 4. CHSD 128 — $304,290
- 5. Twp HSD 113 — $300,000
- 6. Zion-Benton Twp HSD 126 — $288,145
- 7. North Chicago SD 187 — $280,900
- 8. Lincolnshire-Prairieview SD 103 — $274,508
- 9. Warren Twp HSD 121 — $274,145
- 10. Woodland CCSD 50 — $273,656
- 11. Lake Bluff ESD 65 — $267,131
- 12. Grant CHSD 124 — $265,996
- 13. Diamond Lake SD 76 — $264,981
- 14. Fremont SD 79 — $264,504
- 15. CHSD 117 — $261,500
- 16. Libertyville SD 70 — $257,560
- 17. Round Lake CUSD 116 — $257,003
- 18. Grayslake CHSD 127 — $256,699
- 19. Lake Zurich CUSD 95 — $246,495
- 20. Zion ESD 6 — $240,000
- 21. Big Hollow SD 38 — $237,651
- 22. Kildeer Countryside CCSD 96 — $237,600
- 23. Wauconda CUSD 118 — $237,161
- 24. Grayslake CCSD 46 — $236,161
- 25. Aptakisic-Tripp CCSD 102 — $235,951
- 26. Hawthorn CCSD 73 — $223,453
- 27. Fox Lake GSD 114 — $221,370
- 28. Millburn CCSD 24 — $220,000
- 29. Lake Villa CCSD 41 — $218,400
- 30. Gurnee SD 56 — $212,000
- 31. Grass Lake SD 36 — $211,099
- 32. Antioch CCSD 34 — $208,247
- 33. Gavin SD 37 — $200,501
- 34. Beach Park CCSD 3 — $190,550
- 35. Emmons SD 33 — $188,789
- 36. Rondout SD 72 — $186,922
- 37. Winthrop Harbor SD 1 — $178,774
Not ranked
- Adlai E Stevenson HSD 125 — latest figure is for 2023-2024
- Bannockburn SD 106 — no figure in the state's file
- Lake Forest CHSD 115 — no figure in the state's file
- Lake Forest SD 67 — no figure in the state's file
- Mundelein Cons HSD 120 — no figure in the state's file
- Mundelein ESD 75 — no figure in the state's file
- Oak Grove SD 68 Green Oaks — latest figure is for 2023-2024