An assistant coach was stabbed after a girls basketball game between two Manhattan high schools — and now one of the principals is trying to hush up the violence at her troubled school, sources told The Post.
Edward Reynolds High School had just defeated Wildcat Academy, a charter school, on May 2 when heated words were exchanged and a brawl broke out, sources said.
The melee spilled out into the road in front of Edward Reynolds on West 102nd Street, with coaches trying to calm the situation, sources said.
Then an adult male affiliated with Edward Reynolds stabbed Wildcat Academy Assistant Coach Malik Johnson, 38, in the shoulder as he tried to keep the peace, they said.
Johnson was taken to a nearby hospital with a laceration and later released.
School staffers said Edward Reynolds Principal Lilit Suffet failed to notify parents about the incident — and told teachers to keep their mouths shut about it at a staff meeting the next day.
The city Department of Education said Suffet properly notified cops and staffers after the bloody fight.
But sources said the school gave limited help to investigating cops. No arrest has been made in the case nearly two weeks later.
Teachers said the stabbing was the latest sign of the spiraling chaos that has taken hold at Edward Reynolds, which enrolls students who have struggled at other schools.
Sources said the Upper West Side building routinely reeks of marijuana and that fights and chronic absenteeism have become an accepted norm to be contained, not addressed.
“This was the last straw for us,” a teacher told The Post of the stabbing. “We’re fed up.”
The staffer said the school, which enrolls about 360 kids, is frequently half empty.
Students who do show up regularly saunter in around noon and leave early — primarily to play basketball, the whistleblower said.
“Kids get away with whatever they want,” a female senior told The Post on Tuesday. “They cut class when they want. They yell s–t at teachers in the classroom and don’t worry about getting into trouble.
“The administrators are cool with it as long as parents don’t call the school complaining that their kid’s been kicked out of class.”
The teacher said suspensions and punishments are nearly non-existent — and that the stabbing exemplifies the current state of affairs.
DOE spokesman Miranda Barbot said, “The safety of students and staff is our top priority, and the principal notified staff of this incident over e-mail the night it occurred and discussed it in an all-staff meeting the next morning.
“We are fully cooperating with the NYPD as they conduct an investigation and will continue to support this school community.”
Johnson did not return a call for comment.