Hawke's Bay's oldest primary school can't wait for its two new classrooms.
The roll at Eskdale has rocketed from 171 to 263 in less than three years - an increase of almost 54 per cent and a third up on what is thought to have been its previous record of just under 200.
By the time the new rooms announced this week by Minister of Education Hekia Parata on Thursday are in place the number of rooms will have grown from eight to 11, and there could yet be room for more.
Tristan Cheer, who has been principal since 2014, says that as the first room was being put in place last year he was seeing the need for one more.
But even that was short of the mark, for the Ministry of Education had barely had time to consider the application for the extra room, Mr Cheer said the school was telling the Ministry perhaps they should make it two more.