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It’s official: New Yorkers are growing sick of Bill de Blasio

New Yorkers flunked Mayor de Blasio in a devastating poll ­released Wednesday — giving him his lowest approval rating yet amid revelations in The Post about a growing grade-fixing scandal in city schools.

The Quinnipiac University poll — conducted from last Thursday through Tuesday — found that only 38 percent of voters approved of his handling of the schools.

That’s down 11 points from this time last year and three points from a poll in May.

“His education numbers are not good . . . given what is going on these days with The Post. It hurts,” said pollster Maurice Carroll.

The numbers also showed that more people believed de Blasio did not deserve re-election than those who said he did, by 47-41 percent.

“The election calendar keeps getting shorter. So even though it’s two years away, Mayor de Blasio has to be concerned that his re-election numbers are narrowly negative,” Carroll said.

In other findings:

  • De Blasio scored the lowest approval ratings of his mayoralty, with 44 percent of voters giving him a thumbs down while the same percentage saying he’s doing a good job. The rest were undecided.
  • The mayor’s political rivals — Gov. Cuomo and Comptroller Scott Stringer, a rumored Democratic-primary foe — got much more love from New Yorkers. Stringer’s job-approval rating was 54 percent compared to 21 percent who disapproved, while 58 percent believed Cuomo was doing a good job compared to 36 percent who didn’t.
  • While Democrats supported his re-election by 53-35 percent, Republicans opposed it by 88-8 percent and independent voters were ready to dump the mayor by 56-30 percent.
  • The wide racial divide that has plagued de Blasio’s tenure as mayor — and that he promised to heal during his campaign — persisted. Black voters by 58-33 percent said he deserves re-election, while white voters said by 61-24 percent that he doesn’t.

“There’s a tremendous disparity,” Caroll said. “I haven’t seen anything like it in my life . . . The question is why is he doing so bad with white voters.”

In January, 40 percent of white voters disapproved while 49 percent approved. In May, 44 percent approved while 40 percent did not.

The poll also found that voters are roughly split on the way de Blasio handles racial relations between blacks and whites, with 47 percent favorable and 44 percent unfavorable.

They disapproved of his handling of the latest city budget by 38-43 percent, and the city’s rising homeless population by 36-53 percent.

Carroll also said it’s obvious that de Blasio had failed to bridge the divide between rich and poor New Yorkers and the racial divide between blacks and whites.

“The mayor has yet to close the book on the ‘tale of two cities’ written on Election Day 2013. Black voters still approve of de Blasio by a lot; white voters don’t,” Carroll said.

Howard Wolfson, a former deputy mayor in the Bloomberg ­administration, agreed.

Following the release of the poll, Wolfson tweeted, “Amazing. Guy who ran on ending ‘two cities’ has a bigger gap btwn white and AA [African-American] approval (32 points in new Q poll) than Bloomberg ever did.”

However, Democratic political consultant George Arzt said the results aren’t the end of the world for the mayor and that he “has plenty of time to recuperate.”

Responding to the poll, de Blasio spokesman Wiley Norvell said, “This is a mayor who focuses on the fundamentals New Yorkers care about, not political chatter.

“What matters are results: crime is down 6 percent from last year’s record lows, more affordable housing is being built than at any time in the past 40 years, and the city has added more than 150,000 jobs since the mayor took office,” Norvell added.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.