A Harlem high school student was shot “point blank” in the face with a BB gun Friday as he sat in geometry class — but school officials never called NYPD or the teen’s parents, The Post has learned.
Alejandro Hidalgo, 15, was bleeding and badly rattled as he ran wildly from room 206 at A. Philip Randolph High School after the blast, hoping in vain to catch the group of older kids he said fired the random shot.
Despite Hidalgo filing an incident report with a school dean and being treated by the school nurse, cops weren’t notified, sources said Monday.
Hidalgo also said he was not contacted by police, and law enforcement sources said they have no report of an incident at the West 135th Street school.
The incident left teachers and parents fearing for kids’ safety in the classroom, a school source said.
Dept. of Education regulations, posted to A. Philip Randolph’s school website, require school officials to call the NYPD in cases of shootings and other situations that pose a potential danger to students and staff.
If a student requires medical attention, school administration must contact the student’s parents.
“Nobody called my house to tell my parents what happened,” said Hidalgo, whose cheek was pierced by the BB.
“I didn’t tell my mom I got shot because she would have a heart attack. I told her kids were acting up and throwing stuff like pens around the room and I got hit.”
The school’s interim principal, David Fanning, referred calls to the DOE.
A DOE official said incident was reported to the NYPD, but when pressed for details said only that the proper level school security agent — employed by the NYPD — was notified.
The official confirmed the student was hit, but said the gun was a toy plastic model that fires low-velocity plastic bullets.
On Monday, Hidalgo recounted the BB shooting for The Post.
“I was in was geometry class. I just decided to sit in the front row, ” he said. “From the corner of my eye I could see [about] five kids in the hallway. They looked like seniors.”
His math teacher, Risa Poon, usually keeps her classroom door locked, Hildalgo said.
“I don’t know how they opened the door — maybe they had a key — but one of the kids pushed open the door just enough to fit a BB gun through.
“It was a blind fire. I was so close to the door. I think I was at point blank range,” he said.
“I heard the pop and I flinched. If I didn’t react, the BB gun would have taken my eye out.”
Disoriented, Hidalgo ignored the teacher’s order to stay in the classroom and took after the group of teens in the hall.
“I was furious,” he said. “ It hurt and burned so bad. I just reacted naturally and jumped out of my chair and ran out to find who shot me. I’m not a violent guy but I never got shot before.
“I wanted to fight these guys, you know? I was just in shock and really out of it.”
“I scanned the entire first floor. I saw one of them and he said to another kid, ‘Oh damn, that’s the kid I hit!’ That’s when they ran. I was so messed up from getting shot I couldn’t see straight. So I lost them.”
“I went right to the nurse and got patched up. Then I went to the Dean and filed an incident report.”
Hidalgo doesn’t believe he was targeted, saying, “I would have known if someone was after me. I think this was seniors being stupid.”
One teacher at the school gave principal Fanning — who had been vice principal at the elite Brooklyn Tech before coming to Randolph in 2011– credit for reinstating school aides to watch the school exits, where students had been letting packs of other kids into the building.
But she said the school needs stricter enforcement, noting that student dribble basketballs in the hallways and routinely pull the fire alarms.
“I don’t think he has control of the kids,” the teacher said. “I don’t think the kids respect him.”
“Crazy stuff happens here like that all the time, and now Alejandro has a hole in his cheek,” said student David Torres, 14.
“I hope bringing this to light will make the security tighter here,” said Hidalgo. “I’m just trying to get my work done and see my friends.
“I shouldn’t have to look over my shoulder at school.”
Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Jeane MacIntosh