BestStart Alexandra
Education & Care
23 Matau Street, Alexandra South · Central Otago District
ERO assessed BestStart Alexandra as Not well placed in its 2020 review. Our analysis of the ERO report identifies strengths in children's wellbeing, where children are settled and engaged with good peer relationships. However, the service received C grades across curriculum and learning, whānau partnership, bicultural practice, and leadership and governance, with areas for development including variable assessment practices, inconsistent responsiveness to parent aspirations, and strengthening of cultural integration.
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
BestStart Educare Cultural & rohe
ERO operator-wide review
Education Review · 2025-09-11 · covers the wider operator group
ERO's most recent review for this centre is an operator-wide review — ERO has chosen to review the parent group rather than this centre individually. The findings apply across all centres in the group.
Source: Education Review Office operator-wide review dated 2025-09-11, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Earlier individual centre review
Education Review · 2020-04-29· superseded by operator-wide review above
"The quality of assessment and planning for learning is variable. Leaders and teachers are in the early stages of developing shared understandings of effective assessment, planning and evaluation for group and individual learning."
Assessment and planning variable; early-stage shared understandings being developed.
"Children are settled and engaged in their learning. Teachers know the children well and help them to learn the skills to be a friend and relate well to one another."
Children settled and engaged; strong peer relationship support evident.
"Leaders and teachers, in partnership with parents and whānau, should use Te Whāriki to determine curriculum priorities for children's learning and identify learning outcomes and more consistently respond to parent's aspirations."
Partnership exists but inconsistent responsiveness to parent aspirations identified.
"Strengthening teacher knowledge in relation to children's identity, culture and language, and integrating Māori perspectives in planning and practices remain next steps."
Te reo and tikanga being incorporated; strengthening cultural integration remains a priority.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"A next step is to build internal evaluation capability to evaluate the effectiveness of key aspects of the service's operation that are likely to have the most impact on outcomes for children."
Improvement-focused; internal evaluation capability development identified as priority.
Source: Education Review Office review of BestStart Alexandra dated 2020-04-29, 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 2 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where BestStart Alexandra 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
23 Matau Street, Alexandra South. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is BestStart Alexandra a free kindergarten?
- BestStart Alexandra is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at BestStart Alexandra?
- 47 children attend BestStart Alexandra (roll year 2025).
- Where is BestStart Alexandra?
- 23 Matau Street Alexandra South Central Otago District
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #45256) ↗ · 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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