Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited
Education & Care
87 Severn Street, Clifton-Invercargill · Invercargill City
Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited is an education and care service in Clifton-Invercargill with a current roll of 55 children. Our analysis of the December 2023 ERO report identified strengths in curriculum and learning (B grade) and bicultural practice (B grade), but raised concerns in health and safety (D grade) and leadership and governance (D grade), with multiple non-compliance areas noted across these dimensions.
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
Standalone
Cultural & rohe
ERO review
Akanuku · 2023-12-14
"The service curriculum provides children with a range of experiences and opportunities to enhance and extend their learning and development, indoors and outdoors, individually and in groups."
Curriculum meets standards with positive learning experiences across environments.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"The curriculum respects and supports the right of each child to be confident in their own cultures and encourages children to understand and respect other cultures."
Curriculum respects children's cultures and promotes cultural understanding.
"At the time of the review, ERO identified areas of non-compliance with regulatory standards that are an unacceptable risk to children."
Multiple non-compliance areas identified including hand drying, fire procedures, emergency plans, safety drills, and saf
"Leaders and teachers must ensure policies and procedures guiding the governance and management of the service are implemented and followed."
Non-compliance in governance, management, and administration regulatory standards.
Source: Education Review Office review of Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited dated 2023-12-14, 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 3 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited 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
87 Severn Street, Clifton-Invercargill. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited a free kindergarten?
- Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited?
- 55 children attend Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited (roll year 2025).
- Where is Aoga Amata Preschool 2020 Limited?
- 87 Severn Street Clifton-Invercargill Invercargill City
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #90400) ↗ · 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
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