Dozens of migrants who had been temporarily housed inside a public school gym in Coney Island have been relocated, the school confirmed in a letter shared with NY1. 

The letter, which parents and guardians received during school drop-off Thursday morning, and was shared with NY1, P.S. 188 said that "temporary asylum operations at our school will not begin at this time," but noted that the gym would "remain ready with cots and supplies available to provide emergency short-term respite if needed."

“As a follow-up to the letter you received a few days ago regarding the use of our school’s stand-alone gymnasium for asylum seekers, we are writing to inform you that the New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM) has determined the space is not needed for this purpose at this time,” the school said.

“In the event the site is needed to provide temporary respite, we will notify you as soon as possible. Under this approach, the intention is to provide asylum seekers temporary refuge until a placement can be made and more suitable accommodations becomes available. Throughout this process, our number one priority is and will continue to be the safety of our students and our communities,” it added.

Councilman Justin Brannan, who represents the district where the school is located, said in a tweet on Wednesday that the city would no longer use P.S. 188’s school gym as a temporarily shelter for migrants.

Councilman Ari Kagan also confirmed, tweeting OEM Commissioner Zachary Iscol told him the migrants would leave the gym Wednesday and "be relocated to another site in Manhattan."

The city moved the migrants to a vacant building in Midtown formerly used by Touro College, according to reports.

The Coney Island school was the only school where migrants were being housed, Schools Chancellor David Banks confirmed to NY1 Wednesday morning.

The gymnasium where the migrants were housed was separate from the school, but on school grounds.

It is unclear if the city will use any other public school gyms to house migrants. On Tuesday, Adams said his administration was considering 20 public school gyms as potential emergency shelters for migrants.

Parents in Brooklyn had protested against the plan on Tuesday.

When asked about the plan to house migrants in gyms, and specifically about the decision to move migrants out of the P.S. 188 gym, Anne Williams-Isom, deputy mayor for health and human services, said the school sites were always planned as "respite," or short-term, sites.

"The reason we had to do it was because of the influx that we've gotten," she said. "There was one day where we got over 900 people in one day. I've made, and the mayor has made, a commitment to not have anybody sleeping on the streets."

Williams-Isom disagreed with the notion that the city was "reversing strategy."

"The strategy was to have emergency sites for short-term respite, which always meant that people would move to another site when that became available," she said.

Editor's Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly attributed details about the move.