The Department of Education is pouring an additional $16 million into a dilapidated Queens school – but a local councilman claims long-suffering kids need an entirely new building.

As The Post exclusively reported last month, PS 9 in Maspeth, a school for special needs students, has descended into complete squalor, with a battered bench used to change diapers squeezed next to urinals and a constant cloud of traffic dust billowing into classrooms.

Councilman Robert Holden has repeatedly ripped the DOE for failing to provide a decent environment for PS 9’s kids and called out Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza for declining to visit the school with him.

Holden has pushed for a new facility for more than a year – but the DOE has rebuffed his calls, arguing that they’re already addressing many urgent repairs.

In a Friday letter to Holden, Carranza promised a raft of fresh fixes – but rejected his call for a new building.

Holden told The Post Friday that shoveling cash into an irreparable building to quiet criticism is not an acceptable solution.

“It is clear that Chancellor Carranza cares little about the most vulnerable children in our school system,” said Holden.

“If the chancellor believes that pouring endless tax dollars into Willowbrook 2.0 is acceptable, and he can sleep at night, that’s on him. I will never cease fighting for these children and will not stop until they get the new Hungerfold- style school that they so desperately need.”

Holden stressed that many of the repairs will take years to complete and that already-vulnerable kids will be subjected to the disruptive construction work for the foreseeable future.

“This shows you the mentality of this administrator, the schools chancellor trying to fix up something that can’t be fixed,” he said.