Metro

Tuition-cheat Bronx school supervisor fined

A Bronx administrator used his school as a free baby-sitting service and educational setting for his daughter — although he should have coughed up tuition, officials said Monday.

PS 33 Assistant Principal Leonardo Castro got a teaching aide to watch his daughter before school throughout the 2011-12 school year, while the aide was supposed to be supervising other kids, according to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board.

Castro then got his daughter into a kindergarten class at the school in September 2012 by misleading teachers into believing she was enrolled.

In fact, Castro was living in New Jersey at the time — meaning he should have been paying tuition as an out-of-city resident.

“I was uncomfortable, but I was not going to say anything because she was a student and he was my supervisor,” the classroom teacher told probers for the Office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation for NYC schools.

The investigators later found that Castro had given his residency as a Bronx apartment that he planned to rent from a subordinate.

That financial arrangement proved to be another no-no, according to city conflict rules.

Castro, who earns $104,000 in salary, was slapped with a $6,000 fine for his misdeeds.

The divorced father of three told probers his actions stemmed from difficulty finding child care.

A phone message left for Castro wasn’t returned Monday.