Active Explorers Highbrook
Education & Care
130 Kerwyn Road, East Tamaki · Auckland - Howick
ERO assessed Active Explorers Highbrook as Not well placed in December 2019. Our analysis of the ERO report found strengths in curriculum and learning, children's wellbeing, whānau partnership, and leadership and governance (all grade A), with health and safety assessed as grade B.
AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.
Roll breakdown
By age
By ethnicity
Note: a child may be counted under multiple ethnicities (total may exceed roll).
Operator
Active Explorers Cultural & rohe
ERO review
ERO review · 2019-12-19
This review predates ERO's current 4-point placement scale (introduced 2020). The overall judgement is omitted; the per-dimension grades below are extracted from the review prose and remain comparable.
"Their assessment and planning are linked with Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum."
Assessment and planning explicitly linked to Te Whāriki; strong intentional teaching evident.
"Interactions and relationships between children, their peers and teachers are positive."
Positive relationships, strong transitions, social-emotional development well supported.
"Teachers' positive relationships with parents/whānau contribute to mutual respect and a shared understanding of parents' aspirations and expectations for children."
Strong partnerships with families, shared understanding of aspirations evident.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Infants and toddlers receive quality care and benefit from high adult-to-child ratios."
Ratios better than minimum; centre assurance on legal requirements completed.
"EEG has established an effective process for centres to implement internal evaluation. The centre manager and assistant manager support a shared understanding about internal evaluation among all staff."
Strong internal evaluation processes, robust appraisal, strategic alignment evident.
Source: Education Review Office review of Active Explorers Highbrook dated 2019-12-19, licensed CC-BY 4.0. The 4-point overall judgement is ERO's; the 6 dimension grades are our analysis of ERO's prose (see methodology). · Centre has 2 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Active Explorers Highbrook hasn't been graded on a dimension, the composite uses the national average for that dimension as a placeholder. Each affected axis below is flagged est. When a new ERO review lands, the placeholder is replaced and the score may shift.
The composite is a weighted average of six ERO dimensions, each scored 0–100 (A=90, B=70, C=50, D=25). The "(p47)" style suffix shows where the centre sits within its EQI band (peer percentile, when ≥10 comparable centres in band). See methodology for the formula + limits.
Location
130 Kerwyn Road, East Tamaki. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Active Explorers Highbrook a free kindergarten?
- Active Explorers Highbrook is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Active Explorers Highbrook?
- 150 children attend Active Explorers Highbrook (roll year 2025).
- Where is Active Explorers Highbrook?
- 130 Kerwyn Road East Tamaki Auckland - Howick
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #25394) ↗ · CC-BY 4.0 via data.govt.nz
- ERO reviews: ERO institution page ↗ · Crown copyright (reuse permitted with attribution)
- Suburb safety & demographics: SafeSuburbs ↗ · crimestats.co.nz ↗ · NZ Police RCVD + Stats NZ 2023 Census, CC-BY 4.0
- Funding policy (20 Hours / Childcare Subsidy / FamilyBoost): parents.education.govt.nz · WINZ · IRD · Crown copyright (policy only — we cite parameters, don't republish)
- Map tiles: © OpenStreetMap · © CARTO · ODbL + CC-BY 3.0
- Machine-readable formats: facts.json · markdown.md
Full source list, licence text, refresh cadence: /sources. How we match, clean, and rank: /methodology.
Data sources & freshness (4 sources · last refresh 12 July 2026)
Service type, address, roll, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours, Takiwā, lat/lng
Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)
Per-centre review reports + 6-dimension letter grades (curriculum / wellbeing / whānau / bicultural / health & safety / leadership)
Safety score, crime/1k, 2023 Census demographics
Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.