The city’s public school enrollment declined last year, but the number of students experiencing homelessness increased, according to a new report. 

At least 104,000 students experienced homelessness at some point during the 2021-2022 school year, up from 101,000 the previous year, a report released by Advocates for Children of New York on Wednesday found. 

More than 29,000 of those 104,000 children stayed in city shelters, while 69,000 shared someone else’s home “because of a loss of housing or economic hardship,” the report said. 

Nearly 5,500 students, meanwhile, reported “living in cars, parks or abandoned buildings,” according to the report. 

It was the seventh year in a row that the number of students experiencing homelessness stood in the six figures, the report noted, adding that the total “may have been an undercount, as the pandemic and remote learning likely made it more difficult for schools to identify changes to students’ housing situations.” 

The rise in student homelessness came despite the fact that public school enrollment fell by 3.2% between the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years, the report added.

The Bronx, upper Manhattan, Brownsville and Bushwick saw the highest rates of student homelessness, with more than one in seven students in the Bronx experiencing homelessness, the report said. 

The Bronx’s Community School District 9, which includes Grand Concourse, Tremont and Morrisania, reported the highest rate of student homelessness in the five boroughs, with more than one in five children experiencing homelessness, according to the report. 

Queens, for its part, saw a jump in student homelessness, with the number of students lacking permanent housing rising by 12.3%, despite a borough-wide drop in enrollment.

Responding to the report on Wednesday, New York City Department of Education deputy press secretary Suzan Sumer, said the agency has nearly 350 employees, including 100 social workers, who work specifically with students whose families are experiencing homelessness.

“Our Office of Community Supports and Wellness leads vital work in support of NYC Public Schools students with unique and significant needs, none of which will be disrupted while we navigate a period of transition,” Sumer said in a statement. 

“It is our ongoing priority to provide our students, including students living in foster care, temporary housing and asylum seekers living in shelters, with the supports and resources they need, when they need them,” Sumer added. 

The department is in the process of hiring 100 “shelter-based community coordinators,” she noted.