Active Explorers St Lukes
Education & Care
55 Sainsbury Road, Mt Albert · Auckland - Albert-Eden
ERO assessed this service as Not well placed in their 2019 review. Our analysis of the ERO report identified B grades across all five dimensions: Curriculum & learning, Children's wellbeing, Whānau partnership, Bicultural practice, and Leadership & governance. The service demonstrated effective teaching and responsive practice, though ERO noted areas for deeper Te Whāriki engagement and more consistent implementation of bicultural approaches.
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
Education 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.
"Teachers skilfully include science, mathematics and literacy in the programme in meaningful ways."
Effective teaching demonstrated, but Te Whāriki deeper engagement needed.
"Children are settled. They make choices about their play. Teachers are responsive and engage them in positive, supportive interactions."
Children settled and supported; responsive teaching evident throughout.
"Parents and whānau contribute very well to the programme, the environment and support centre events. Teachers actively and successfully seek whānau feedback and this is included in the development of centre practices and documentation."
Strong whānau engagement and feedback integration in practice.
"Te reo and tikanga Māori are woven throughout centre practices. Te ao Māori is evident in programme planning to varying levels, but is particularly strong for the older children."
Te reo and tikanga embedded; strong leadership but varying implementation levels.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"EEG leaders have established an effective process for centres to implement internal evaluation. They have provided effective professional development that has enhanced this centre's leaders' understanding of the process, and this is driving improvement."
Effective internal evaluation and professional development; strategic planning established.
Source: Education Review Office review of Active Explorers St Lukes 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 St Lukes 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
55 Sainsbury Road, Mt Albert. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Active Explorers St Lukes a free kindergarten?
- Active Explorers St Lukes is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Active Explorers St Lukes?
- 80 children attend Active Explorers St Lukes (roll year 2025).
- Where is Active Explorers St Lukes?
- 55 Sainsbury Road Mt Albert Auckland - Albert-Eden
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #45567) ↗ · 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
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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
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