Eight high schools will continue serving as evacuation centers when school resumes on Monday, officials said yesterday.
Although Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott wouldn’t confirm that students and evacuees from Hurricane Sandy would be kept separate for the entire school day, he said he was confident the city would come up with a way to meet everyone’s needs.
“We’ll make sure our students are protected and safe and get an education,” he told reporters during a conference call.
Brooklyn Tech, Tottenville on Staten Island and Graphic Communication Arts in Manhattan are among the schools that will serve a dual purpose indefinitely.
Education officials said roughly 1,100 of the city’s 1,275 school buildings will open Monday after being closed for an entire week because of the storm.
Walcott said 174 school buildings were without power, flooded or otherwise damaged to such an extent that students will have to relocate to other places if the problems aren’t resolved over the weekend.
Those include 44 schools that he described as “severely” damaged, including John Dewey HS in Brooklyn — which suffered a fire — and Beach Channel HS in Queens, which was ravaged by seawater.
The schools chief also said that about 4 percent of the city’s yellow-bus fleet was damaged but that the remaining buses would be able to make up for the vehicle shortage.