SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras closed out her contract this week and walked away with $90,000.

Contreras will take home $37,506 for 42 unused vacation days, $21,432 in her retirement account, and $18,200 for unused sick days, as well as a $12,500 merit pay bonus, Syracuse.com reports.

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The buyout comes after the school board approved a contract extension in December that allowed Contreras to receive reimbursement for unused sick time, and doubled the number of vacation days she could cash out, according to the news site.

Contreras, who made $214,322 a year, Syracuse in July to become superintendent of Guilford County Schools in North Carolina. Contreras makes $250,000 in her new role, according to the district’s website.

Contreras came to Syracuse in 2012 with a grand vision and a “Great Expectations” plan to improve student performance above New York’s other “Big 5” districts – New York, Yonkers, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo.

She also talked a lot about closing the achievement gap between white and minority students in the district, according to Syracuse.com.

At the time, about 29 percent of third-graders were proficient in English Language Arts, and 29 percent were proficient in math. By 2015, the percentage of third-graders proficient in English Language Arts was 8 percent, which inched up to 11 percent in 2016. Third grade math proficiency was 13 percent in 2015, and 16 percent in 2016, according to state data.

Syracuse.com highlighted other performance statistics for 2016:

Some 10.9 percent of Syracuse students in grades 3 through 8 scored at a level deemed “proficient” in the 2016 English language arts (ELA) exams, up from 8.1 percent in 2015.

By comparison, 37.9 percent of students statewide achieved the “proficient” rating, meaning they scored at least Level 3 out of the four scoring levels. The state average improved from 31.3 percent last year.

In math, 10.4 percent of Syracuse students were rated proficient, up from 9.4 percent last year. The state average in math was 39.1, up from 38.1 percent a year ago.

Test scores in other large Upstate cities also fell short of the state average. Syracuse proficiency scores in 2016 were better than Rochester’s (6.7 percent ELA and 7.2 percent math) but worse than Buffalo’s (16.4 percent ELA and 16.1 percent math).

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New York’s standardized tests changed in recent years to align with national Common Core standards and assessments, and the state Department of Education website warns that “the proficiency rates from exams prior to 2016 are not directly comparable to the 2016 proficiency rates.”

Regardless, it’s obvious Syracuse students are not excelling, and there’s still a large gap between the outcomes of white and minority students. For example, 20 percent of white students in grades 3-8 who took the English Language Arts exam last year tested proficient, compared to only 6 percent of black students.

Syracuse Chief Talent Officer Christopher Miller told Syracuse.com that “the district and Dr. Contreras did not enter into any separation or severance agreement, and she did not receive any benefits other than those to which she was eligible under her employment contract.”

But statement doesn’t seem to account for the $12,500 merit pay bonus awarded by the school board, which was based upon her performance evaluation for 2015-16.

The maximum she could have received was $15,000, according to the news site.

Quick math shows she received an 83 percent, which rounded up to $90,000.