New York City education officials were scrambling Tuesday to get as many migrant kds registered before the start of school in two days.

About 19,500 kids currently live in temporary housing — most of them asylum seekers — according to recent numbers released by City Hall — and most have been enrolled since 2022.

With public schools set to open on Sept. 7, the Big Apple is moving into the next phase of the humanitarian crisis: finding room, money, and teachers to handle the influx of children who speak more than a dozen languages.

At a Long Island City Holiday Inn-turned-shelter, Yohanna Silva, 46, said her 11-year-old son was registering for the 7th grade at the Queens’ Academy for New Americans, a middle school located inside Astoria’s PS 234.

The mother of three said it would be her son’s first time attending school in the US. Silva also has two other sons – an infant and an adult.

“I came here from Venezuela because the situation is so unstable. There is no work, no education for my kids, no food, nothing,” said Silva.

“I’m really excited for him to be able to go to school here. The education for him before was so bad.”

Silva and other shelter residents talked to The Post in Spanish as National Guard members were on hand at the hotel handing out supplies and registering people for various social services.

“The process has been really easy so far. The paperwork has been no problem. People show us what do do. We have gotten a ton of help from people for the process,” she said.

“My son doesn’t speak English, but I’m not worried about it. They will give him English lessons at school.”

At a Department of Education Welcome Center on Queens Plaza North, Peruvian migrant Rosa Escobar was registering her three teenage kids for school, while they stayed back at their shelter.

“It had been hard here. I’ve been trying to find a job, but I haven’t been able to work yet,” the 50-year-old woman said. 

“I am trying to get my kids registered for school. I am excited that they have the chance to go to school here, but I am trying to get the paperwork sorted out.”

Antonio Escalante arrived in the city three months ago with his wife and 13-year-old son Isaac David Escalante Barros after fleeing Colombia, where his two other adult sons remain.

Isaac had attended some summer school in the city and was set to start the ninth grade at PS 204 in Long Island City.

“I’m not nervous at all to go into high school. The school I’ve already been to was great. I made a ton of new friends. I’m really happy to be here,” he said, adding that his favorite part of the US was Times Square, and he hoped to one day join the US Army.

“Colombia was terrible. I don’t miss anything about it except my brothers. I miss them a lot.”

Antonio said registering for school was one of the easiest aspects of his arduous asylum-seeking ordeal.

“It’s been really hard here, so far. It’s been hard trying to get a work permit, to figure out housing. But finding a school for my kid has actually been really straightforward. They tell us exactly what to do. But it’s also also slow. It takes forever, and that’s really frustrating. I think it’s because there are so many migrants here that the government can’t handle them all,” he said.

“We’re just trying to settle in and make a life here, get him through school. Things are so bad back in Colombia. My two other sons are still there trying to make money. It was so hard that we had to leave, he added.

Meyling Urbina, 36, has been in the city for seven months after migrating from Nicaragua. 

She has a 10-year-old daughter, a 5 year old son, and an infant daughter; the two eldest attend a Long Island City charter school called Growing Up Green.

“The schools here are much better. Here, they spend more time in school, but they learn faster. The schools are bigger, they’re cleaner, teachers are more attentive to the students,” said Urbina.

“My hope for my kids is to be able to have the better future and opportunities that our country can’t offer them. We want them to stay here, if your government allows them to.”

Irrian Hernandes, 23, from Venezuela has two daughters, one of whom is entering second grade . 

“The process of finding them a school and getting registered has been fast and easy. We did it on time. People gave us a lot of help,” she said.

“Things are mostly better here. My one concern for me and my kids is getting a fair wage. There is a lot of labor abuse that goes on,” added Hernandes, whose husband works in construction.

“My dream for my kids is to grow up and be able to work. Their future is the most important thing. I don’t think they will ever go back to Venezuela.”

Isabelle Vanessa Gomez, 33, from Ecuador had the same hopes and dreams for her 8-year-old boy, who was easily able to enroll in the fourth grade at PS 79.

“I think his school will be cleaner, bigger, nicer, and that the teachers will be good. My real hope for American school is that the teachers will be professional,” said Gomez.

“They aren’t very professional in Ecuador.”

Immigration advocates held a press conference Tuesday at The New York Immigration Coalition’s Midtown office, to shed light on the “issues [facing] immigrant and asylum seeker families this school year.

Migrants children in city shelters had “a right to be enrolled in their of closest zoned school,” but families that were able to travel could opt for a schools further away with “stronger concurrent supports,” said Liza Schwartzwald, the non-profit’s Director of Economic Justice and Family Empowerment.

Additional funding for the surge of migrant students would be doled out through the city’s Fair Student Funding program, which is based on the number of students enrolled at each school and their needs, and Project Open Arms, a City Hall initiative that deploys social service resources to migrants in public schools.

DOE Chancellor David Banks said last week that the program had allocated $110 million to the school’s “immediate requirements,” and said 3,400 English as a New Language licensed teachers and more than 1,700 teachers who are fluent in Spanish were on hand for the school year.

The nation’s largest school district had a $37.5 billion budget for the 2023-24 school year, officials said.

“As you all know, New York City has seen around 19,000 asylum seeker students join our public school system over the last year with more newcomers who have arrived and are currently being molded,” Schwartzwald said.

“These students and all our English language learners deserve access to quality education,” she added.