School District 300 is spending about $1,000 less per pupil than the average district of similar size in Illinois, according to statistics culled from the 2000 state report card shown this week to a committee that will determine the size of a tax-increase request that will be on the ballot next year.
The average large unit school district spent $7,091 per pupil, but District 300 spent $6,032, according to figures shown to the Tax Rate Advisory Committee.
According to a wish list put together by Robert Whitehouse, principal of Dundee-Crown High School, he would like to see the district spend an additional $812 per pupil. At Dundee-Crown, with its projected 2,234 enrollment this fall, that increase would cost about $1.8 million. With the extra money, Whitehouse said, the school could hire eight division heads–positions eliminated in 1983–a technology coordinator, six teachers, four security guards, two maintenance workers and three custodians.
Money from a tax increase would also go toward textbooks, computers, and take-home laptop computers for all teachers.
