School Safety Agent Jacqueline Jenkins just might be one of the luckiest people in the city.

The veteran school officer was shot once in the back and although the bullet pierced her skin and made a hole, it did not lodge in her body or do any internal damage.

Agent Jenkins, who has been with school safety since 1997, said she was outside the main door to PS 118 on 109th Road, near Farmers Blvd. in Hollis, Queens, at about 5:35 p.m. May 15 when she was wounded.

“I felt something hit in the back of my right shoulder and then I heard about six shots,” Jenkins said.

“I knew I was shot and went back into the school, but I kept my arm down because I didn’t know what kind of damage there was.”

Although hurt, she knew the police were looking for those who fired the shots and she went to the back of the school to make sure all the doors were secured.

“Parents were still coming in and out, picking up their children, so I continued to work,” she said. “My concern was with the kids.”

When the children were attended to, she asked a couple of her coworkers to take a look at her wound. They acknowledged that she had a small hole in her back, it was swollen, and there was some blood.

Jenkins then called her brother, Mike Waldo, also an SSA, told him what had happened and asked his advice as to what to do.

Waldo told her to stay where she was and that he would alert authorities and come to her school. When he reached her, police had already arrived and also confirmed that she had been shot.

She had seen police outside the building with drawn guns looking for the source of the gunshots, but did not rush to tell them she had been shot. When police asked her why she had not informed them that she was hurt, she told them her first responsibility was to the children.

Emergency Medical Technicians rushed her to Jamaica Hospital where doctors examined the bullet hole and then took x-rays to determine where the bullet had lodged and what damage it had done.

The x-rays were unable to find the bullet and disclosed no internal injuries.

Police subsequently found the spent .22 caliber bullet at the site where she had been standing outside the school They theorized that the distance it had traveled and Agent Jenkins’ clothing had stopped it from doing greater damage.

Jenkins was treated and released from Jamaica Hospital but went to her own doctor the next day and received a tetanus shot.