Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law on Nov. 5 a bill that will require the Department of Education to report to the City Council more information on guidance counselors and social workers in public schools.

“It’s a good thing because it’s going to hold the schools accountable,” said Guidance Counselors Chapter Leader Rosemarie Thompson. “We’ll be able to see if schools are taking the social and emotional needs of our students seriously.”

About 3,083 full- and part-time guidance counselors work in the schools and address everything from attendance and bullying to college applications.

A 2013 report by the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School found that counselors were responsible for 100 to 300 students in 61 percent of the city’s schools and had even higher caseloads in most of the remaining schools.

Under the bill, which was introduced by City Council member Antonio Reynoso, the DOE will be required to report annually on the number of full- and part-time guidance counselors in each city school and the ratio of counselors and social workers to students in those schools. Also, the DOE must report on whether the counselors and social workers provide services to other schools co-located in the same building and on how many counselors provide services to students with disabilities.

In addition to reporting the information to the City Council each year, the DOE will post the data on its website. The DOE must post its first report before Feb. 15, 2015.

The DOE hired 250 additional guidance counselors for this school year and has created a new office of Guidance and School Counseling. It supported the bill.