New Lenox School District 122 provides primary education services to students in grades kindergarten through 8. The superintendent is Dr. Michael Sass. The student body is drawn primarily from the village of New Lenox

New Lenox, Illinois

New Lenox is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The village population is estimated to be 24,938 as of 2006. The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning forecasts New Lenox will have a population of 90,652 in 2030.-Geography:...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

 in Will County

Will County, Illinois

As of the census of 2000, there were 502,266 people, 167,542 households, and 131,017 families residing in the county. The population density was 600 people per square mile . There were 175,524 housing units at an average density of 210 per square mile...

 and surrounding areas.

Elementary schools

• Tyler Elementary School
• Bentley Elementary School
• Haines Elementary School
• Nelson Prairie Elementary School
• Nelson Ridge Elementary School
• Oster-Oakview Elementary School
• Spencer Crossing Elementary School
• Spencer Pointe Elementary School

Teacher and administrator annual salary increases

Salary increases for teachers and administrators in New Lenox School District 122 have greatly exceeded the rate of inflation in recent years as shown in the table below. http://www.thechampion.org

Fiscal Year	Teachers	Administrators	Inflation (CPI)
2000	4.7%	8.5%	3.4%
2001	8.1%	19.3%	1.6%
2002	10.0%	11.7%	2.4%
2003	9.0%	13.8%	1.9%
2004	19.3%	9.8%	3.3%
2005	6.0%	10.9%	3.4%

Total teacher and administrator payroll

Total payroll for teachers and administrators in New Lenox School District 122 has greatly exceeded the rate of inflation as well. The total increase in payroll is lower as a % than the average increase in salary on a teacher by teacher basis due to pension spiking

Pension spiking

Pension spiking is the process whereby public sector employees grant themselves large raises or otherwise artificially inflate their compensation in the years immediately preceding retirement in order to receive larger pensions than they otherwise would be entitled to receive...

. This practice results in large in increases in teacher compensation in the years immediately preceding retirement. When these teachers retire this then removes that teachers compensation from the next year's total salary resulting in lower total payroll. http://www.thechampion.org

Fiscal Year	Teacher Payroll	Average Salary	Admin Payroll	Average Salary
2000	$7,960,522	$34,461	$1,257,622	$66,584
2001	$8,256,237	$35,434	$1,493,854	$82,992
2002	$9,213,890	$37,608	$1,511,788	$75,937
2003	$11,359,233	$39,857	$1,533,217	$78,436
2004	$12,151,199	$44,674	$1,912,761	$84,967
2005	$13,745,798	$45,366	$2,011,466	$89,339
2006	$14,278,419	$47,319	$2,215,883	$94,455

District 122 gross revenue by sources

Year	Property Taxes	Investment Earnings	Other Local Sources	State & Federal	Total Revenue
2005	$24,384,901	$255,041	$2,670,060	$13,581,968	$40,891,700
2004	21,099,214	181,103	2,624,131	13,999,169	37,903,617
2003	17,199,210	509,862	2,309,087	12,794,922	32,539,572
2002	14,359,199	879,398	2,168,096	15,132,879	32,539,572
2001	11,631,227	1,949,885	1,987,436	12,929,489	28,498,037
2000	10,608,734	493,839	2,127,480	8,549,565	21,779,618