A record-high 154,000 public school students — or nearly one in seven — were homeless across New York City during the last school year, grim new data revealed Monday.

Of those children, more than 65,000 were forced to spend at least one night in a Big Apple homeless shelter and roughly 7,000 were living in motels, according to the figures compiled for the Advocates for Children of New York’s annual report.

The shocking numbers mark an all-time high of homeless kids in the city’s public school system — but continue a decade-long trend, the report obtained by NY1 shows. 3

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“This is the 10th year in a row where over 100,000 kids were identified as homeless last school year. This is the first year it was over 150,000 students experiencing homelessness. These numbers obviously ar

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