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Aro Valley Community Preschool

Education & Care

📞 04-3845156 🌐 Visit website ↗ ✉ Email centre

48 Aro Street, Aro Valley · Wellington City

Total roll
25
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
60246

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

Akarangi · 2025-04-29

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Bicultural practice
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Health & safety
C
"ERO found areas of non-compliance in the service relating to: the signature of the person responsible giving approval for excursions to take place."

Non-compliance found regarding excursion approval signatures.

Leadership & governance
→B
"Teachers are reflective and involved in regular self-review that results in new knowledge and improvement to outcomes for children. Shared understanding of internal evaluation, to better inform team decisions about change, is not yet evident."

Reflective practice and self-review evident; internal evaluation understanding still developing.

Source: Education Review Office review of Aro Valley Community Preschool dated 2025-04-29, 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 computed

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where Aro Valley Community Preschool 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.

66 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=2425)
71
est
Wellbeing
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=1871)
74
est
Health & Safety
20%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2319)
50
Leadership
15%
Grade B · below band median (n=2400)
70
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
est
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Estimated from national average · near band median (n=2375)
64
est

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

48 Aro Street, Aro Valley. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Operator financials

Year ended2024-12-31
Total revenue$372,354
Surplus / deficit$24,820
Paid employees7

Source: Charities Services Annual Return

Frequently asked

Is Aro Valley Community Preschool a free kindergarten?
Aro Valley Community Preschool is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Aro Valley Community Preschool?
25 children attend Aro Valley Community Preschool (roll year 2025).
Where is Aro Valley Community Preschool?
48 Aro Street Aro Valley Wellington City

How much will this cost you? Use our FamilyBoost + Childcare Subsidy calculator to estimate your weekly out-of-pocket after government support.

Nearby & related

Victoria University of Wellington Fairlie Terrace Early Childhood Service 0.4 km
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Moriah (Private) Kindergarten Inc 0.4 km
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Barnardos Early Learning Centre Wellington Central 0.4 km
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Millie's House, Hopper St 0.6 km
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Sources & verification

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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)
MoE ECE Directory

Service type, address, roll, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours, Takiwā, lat/lng

As of: Roll year 2025· Refresh: Nightly source · re-pulled on every deploy
Charities Services

Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)

As of: 2024-12-31· Refresh: Annual filings · re-ingested with each refresh
ERO reports

Per-centre review reports + 6-dimension letter grades (curriculum / wellbeing / whānau / bicultural / health & safety / leadership)

As of: 10,663 reports / 4,194 centres · latest review 2026-05-18· Refresh: On review publication · CC-BY 4.0 attribution
Suburb context

Safety score, crime/1k, 2023 Census demographics

As of: 2023 Census· Refresh: Quarterly police data · 5-yearly census

Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.