Parents of a Paeroa school are threatening to remove their children if an 11-year-old boy with 'serious behavioural problems” is allowed to return to the school.

Waikato Times is reporting the Ministry of Education want the boy to be re-enrolled at Paeroa Central School despite warnings from police and a mental health professional saying the 11-year-old poses a safety threat to others.

Paeroa School is refusing to re-enrol a boy who is deemed at risk. Photo: Google Earth.

But the school is refusing to take him back as school management believe his return will put staff and pupils in danger.

After attending school for only four days, the boy was expelled from the decile one school in August after assaulting a teacher, and telling his classmates he would "cut them up" with a knife.

Principal Janet Jones says parents have informed her they will take their children out of school if the boy returns.

The Education Ministry has told Janet she has until tomorrow to re-enrol the boy, despite his violent history – but she refuses to.

Waikato Times reports the boy has attended more than 10 schools, including one where he was excluded after threatening staff with a cricket bat.

The boy's father is understood to be a senior Mongrel Mob member recently released from prison.

It is believed the Ministry offered the school $34,000 in funding from the Intensive Wraparound service – a service supporting young leaners with high complex and challenging needs. But Janet declined.

In 2012 the Intensive Wraparound service worked with nine students who had been excluded from Paeroa Central School. Eight of the students have since been successfully re-enrolled.

The ministry is meeting with Janet and members of the school's board to resolve the enrolment issues.

The Ministry's Special Education group manager Brian Coffey understands the school's concerns.

'Bad behaviour, in whatever form, is unacceptable, particularly if targeted at teachers or other authority figures.”

However, Brian says the student is legally required to be enrolled and going to school is the best chance the boy has for gaining the stability he needs.

'Specially-trained Ministry staff work with hundreds of students with severe behaviour problems every day and we are confident we are able to manage his behaviour.

'There is a place for this child at an alternative education centre and we will gradually integrate him back into Paeroa School,” says Brian.

He says a support plan will be put in place to support the boy at school, in the community, and at home.

'We will continue to work with the school, his family and all other relevant agencies, including the police and child youth and family, to ensure he gets the opportunity he needs in a way that secures the safety of the people around him.”