"We fully understand that a school is for the local community but 92 per cent of our children have enrolled living in the Western Heights region but for reasons outside of the children's control they have had to move."
Mr Griffin said as far as he was aware there were 11 empty classrooms at surrounding schools. However, parents had a right to choose where their children went to school and some students were attending Western Heights Primary School because their parents were dissatisfied with other schools.
While current students who live outside the proposed zone will be able to remain at the school, their younger siblings, who are yet to start school, will not necessarily be guaranteed a place.
The school's roll has increased from 295 in 2002 to 450.
At the end of 2010 the school approached the ministry asking for a new classroom as the school did not have any space for small group teaching and to work with special needs pupils on a one-on-one basis.
Ministry officials told Mr Griffin a new classroom was not possible and by the middle of last year the ministry told the school an enrolment scheme could be introduced.
At the end of last year the school was told the process of introducing the scheme would happen this year.
Last week Mr Griffin and members of the school's board of trustees met with about 60 family members to talk about the proposed enrolment scheme which the ministry want in place by the start of term four.
Mr Griffin said the ministry had told him they were concerned the school was overcrowded which he disputed.
Mr Griffin said his school has Rotorua's reading recovery centre which is used for workshops and professional development for teachers. He said the school had offered to pay the $50,000 cost to relocate the centre to another site so the classroom could be used for special needs students and small group teaching.
"The ministry have said we can follow through with that proposal but an enrolment scheme will be put in place which makes absolutely no sense."
Mr Griffin was trying to arrange a meeting with the local manager and regional manager of the ministry to see if there were any alternatives to an enrolment scheme.
"We are looking out for the needs of our people and they are looking at the needs of property and that is the divide. Whether we can close that divide I'm unsure."
The school had written to Education Minister Hekia Parata who had told them an enrolment scheme would be introduced.
School staff had also met Rotorua MP Todd McClay, who told The Daily Post all schools needed to be able to offer the best educational opportunities but he was a big supporter of parental choice.
"We need to be careful we don't penalise popular schools that parents are choosing, to bolster schools that do not seem to be as popular."
Ministry spokesman Matt Radley said zonings were introduced because of roll growth. He was unable to provide further information regarding Western Heights Primary School.