40 , 000 MORE SAY NO

School opt-outs

The number of families opting out of classroom learning jumped by 40,000 in the past week, according to Department of Education data, as officials said Monday that kids could be taught by teachers from different schools via remote learning.

As of Friday, 304,880 kids will not be back in their school buildings — up from roughly 264,000 the week before. The updated number of students who will return is now 697,008, down from 736,000 the previous week, per the DOE.

City Hall will launch a blended model in September, with kids alternating between home and classroom learning for those who opt in.

Depending on their school, those kids will be in class one to three times a week.

Parents who want to opt out of the hybrid model can do so at any time and their numbers are expected to rise in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Monday that kids could be taught by teachers from other schools during remote classes this year.

With school populations split up to enable social distancing, principals will struggle to staff an increased number of classes with what will likely be depleted teacher rosters.

“Our goal has always been that students that are in remote learning will have teachers from their school,” Carranza said at a press conference with Mayor de Blasio.

“Obviously that is our goal. But that is not a guarantee. Because it’s going to depend on how many teachers at that school are in remote-mode, how many are in-person learning.”

Roughly 15 percent of city teachers have sought medical COVID-19 exemptions and will work from home if approved, the DOE said.

“Obviously, if you have less students per class, you need additional staffing,” Carranza said. “So we are in the throes of all of those detailed planning processes.”

De Blasio said staffing issues won’t be clarified until the school year begins.

Officials also released a racial breakdown of kids who will go fully remote.

Latino kids, who represent 41 percent of the overall DOE population, accounted for 37 percent of those who selected that option.

Asians, who are 18 percent of the system, made up 28 percent of the total.

Black students, who comprise 22 percent of the nation’s largest school system, accounted for 20 percent of those who chose full-time distance learning.

White city kids, who are 16 percent of the DOE population, were 12 percent of the remote-only total.

The DOE said the data show that overall the number of families who have opted out went from 26 to 30 percent in the one-week span.