New York City education officials were scrambling Tuesday to enroll a staggering nearly 20,000 migrant kids by the start of school in two days.

About 19,000 kids live in temporary housing — most of them asylum seekers — according to recent numbers released by City Hall.

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.

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.