Romahapa School plans on ''making noise'' to try to get the Ministry of Education to offer a more immediate solution to alleviate its space problem.
The ministry last week refused to allow the school, which has 85 pupils learning in two classrooms, to add a temporary classroom to the site to relieve the overcrowding.
The school says the option the ministry is pushing, to convert the school's library and teacher support space into classrooms, will take too long and still not give them enough room.
Despite pleas from the school, setting up a relocatable room of any type at the school was not an option because all buildings, including relocatables, required consents and site preparation, which would take longer to achieve than a project to convert some of the existing school buildings, it said.
The school's board of trustees chairwoman, Megan Carey, said this week she was not surprised by the ministry's attitude.
''I guess we're just going to probably have to do a bit more making noise.''
The school was trying to provide a ''nurturing'' teaching environment, which was ''pretty difficult'' as the 88 pupils were crammed into two classrooms.
She said she was aware of unused school buildings in the district that she believed could be transported to Romahapa at a low cost until the school roll dropped.
The next step was to meet the rest of the board to decide what it was going to do.
''We're going to have to keep on pestering the ministry until they actually relent and see this is a problem and there needs to be a solution.''
An enrolment scheme is in place at the school to reduce the roll, but that might take several years.
