The nine new “executive superintendents” that Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is adding to the education bureaucracy will cost at least $2.5 million a year, officials say.

Each extra edu-crat will get a salary of $190,000 and up. Fringe benefits add at least $82,000 apiece to the cost, according to the Independent Budget Office.

Department of Education officials say the posts will streamline operations.

“The new leadership team will have a direct, positive impact on schools, students and families,” said spokesman Will Mantell.

Critics disagree. “It’s not streamlined; it’s padded,” said Eric Nadelstern, a former deputy schools chancellor under Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

“If you asked schools to vote on whether they need nine new executive superintendents, the answer would be a resounding ‘No.’”

The new execs will oversee 31 district superintendents and report to Carranza along with five deputy chancellors and a new “chief academic officer.”