$2.7M In School Admin. Salaries In Hopatcong, Sparta In 2019

Superintendent and principal salaries continue to rise, and last year Hopatcong, Sparta taxpayers spent $2,715,560 on the superintendent and principals in their school district.

The Department of Education recently released its annual list of superintendents and principals and their salaries before the start of the 2019-20 school year. Some of the principals and superintendents listed may no longer be with their schools; this list was developed in 2019.

The list below contains administrators, with their school, their years of service (which is surely a factor in their pay) and, finally, their salaries in 2019:

Hopatcong-Sparta

• ARTHUR DIBENEDETTO, Hopatcong School District, 0, $174,689
• EMIL BINOTTO, Hopatcong High School, 17, $187,089
• LEWIS BENFATTI, Hopatcong Middle School, 20, $156,788
• TRACEY HENSZ, Hudson Maxim Elementary School, 14, $147,966
• DAVID PIERSON, Hopatcong High School, 19, $140,460
• BRIAN BYRNE, Tulsa Trail Elementary School, 10, $133,138
• KATHERINE MCFADDEN, Hudson Maxim Elementary School, 17, $123,749

Sparta

• MICHAEL ROSSI Sparta School District Superintendent, 15, $167,500
• MICHAEL GREGORY, Sparta Middle School, 18, $160,592
• JANET FERRARO, Sparta High School, 33, $154,098
• LAURA TRENT, Mohawk Avenue School, 17, $146,842
• GIUSEPPE LEONE, Alpine Elementary School, 10, $145,747
• DOUGLAS LAYMAN Helen Morgan School, 8, $140,566
• BRAD DAVIS Sparta Middle School, 13, $128,855
• RORY FITZGERALD, Sparta High School, 12, $128,845
• STEVEN SCHELS, Sparta High School, 12, $123,541
• FRANK CIABURRI, Sparta Middle School, 10, $122,550
• PETER MILLER, Alpine Elementary School, 11, $121,181
• TRACY RIVERA, Helen Morgan School, 7, $111,364

The Department of Education has said it double-checks the data before delivering it to the media.

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