The New Centennial Schools Superintendent's Salary Has Been Set. Find Out How Much Below

WARMINSTER, PA — New Centennial Schools Superintendent Abram Lucabaugh will be paid $225,000 annually as school officials revealed details about his new contract.

The former Central Bucks schools superintendent will take over from Centennial Schools Superintendent Dana T. Bedden on July 1.

Bedden is leaving the district after his five-year contract expires on June 30.

After his employment agreement was approved in a 5-4 vote by the Centennial School Board on Tuesday night, Lucabaugh agreed to a three-year contract, school officials said.

School Director Jane Lynch told Patch that Lucabaugh will receive a $225,000 annual salary to start in a three-year contract with a one-year renewal. The school board will then review whether to extend the contract following that time.

She said the superintendent would receive 3 percent annual raises.

"His contract will be brought up again," Lynch said.

The minimum contract that a schools superintendent that can be offered is three years under Pennsylvania

At Tuesday night's meeting, residents complained that the contract does not provide raises based on performance levels and that Lucabaugh's performance is up to the school board to decide without any benchmarks to reach.

The contract is a $90,000 annual drop from what Lucabaugh earned while serving as superintendent of the Central Bucks School District, which is the third-largest by student enrollment in Pennsylvania.

In July 2023, the Central Bucks School District gave Lucabaugh a new five-year contract with a 40 percent increase in his annual base salary, which jumped from $229,500 to $315,000.

At the time, it made Lucabaugh one of the highest-paid public school administrators in Pennsylvania.

The board hired Dr. Lucabaugh as superintendent in 2021 to oversee the third-largest district in Pennsylvania with 17,540 students. He has spent his entire career in the district previously holding the positions of assistant superintendent, high school principal, and assistant middle school principal.

The Central Bucks School Board reached a more than $700,000 severance agreement with Lucabaugh that was approved by the outgoing school board in November 2023.

Meanwhile, Bedden received a five-year contract which began with a base salary of $204,278 that started in the 2021-2022 school year with salary increases between 2 percent and 2.75 percent each for the remaining years, according to contract information provided by Bedden.

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