BestStart Brooklyn
Education & Care
1 Gillies Avenue, Claudelands · Hamilton City
ERO assessed BestStart Brooklyn as Not well placed in 2018. Our analysis of the ERO report found the service received C grades across Curriculum & learning, Bicultural practice, and Leadership & governance. The teaching team was in early stages of developing curriculum and Te Whāriki understanding, bicultural practices were developing but te reo Māori use needed strengthening, and leadership required greater focus on internal evaluation.
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
ERO review · 2018-08-22· superseded by operator-wide review above
"The teaching team are yet to design a localised curriculum and develop a shared philosophy for education. They are beginning to discuss their shared ideas and priorities for curriculum delivery and are at the early stages of developing a shared understanding of Te Whāriki, early childhood curriculum."
Teaching team beginning to develop curriculum and philosophy; early stages of Te Whāriki understanding.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Informative and attractive wall displays highlight children's learning, centre-wide events and elements of a developing bicultural curriculum. Teachers now need to strengthen the use of te reo Māori in the daily programme."
Developing bicultural curriculum evident but te reo Māori use needs strengthening in daily programme.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Leadership has initially and appropriately focused on building relationships during a time of change. Leaders are modelling effective teaching practice to the recently qualified teaching team. Management need to continue to support the new centre manager to implement the BestStart systems with a priority of beginning internal evaluation."
Leadership focused on relationships during transition; internal evaluation needs to be prioritised.
Source: Education Review Office review of BestStart Brooklyn dated 2018-08-22, 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).
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where BestStart Brooklyn 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
1 Gillies Avenue, Claudelands. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is BestStart Brooklyn a free kindergarten?
- BestStart Brooklyn is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at BestStart Brooklyn?
- 30 children attend BestStart Brooklyn (roll year 2025).
- Where is BestStart Brooklyn?
- 1 Gillies Avenue Claudelands Hamilton 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 #47023) ↗ · 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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