BestStart Inglewood
Education & Care
44 Cutfield Street, Inglewood · New Plymouth District
ERO assessed BestStart Inglewood as Not well placed in its 2017 review. Our analysis of the ERO report found strengths in children's wellbeing, whānau partnership, and health and safety (all grade B), but identified areas for development in curriculum and learning, bicultural practice, and leadership and governance (all grade C).
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ERO review · 2017-09-25· superseded by operator-wide review above
"A next step is for teachers to deliberately plan learning opportunities that integrate literacy and numeracy into the curriculum and provide more deliberate support for the development of children's oral language."
Curriculum responsive but lacks integrated literacy/numeracy and deliberate oral language support.
"Children are well supported in their transition into and within the centre, through thoughtful and sensitive transition processes."
Strong transition support and positive interactions; children confident and supported.
"The introduction of a digital assessment tool has promoted and enabled parents to give greater feedback and contribution to children's learning records."
Teachers strengthening relationships with parents; digital tool enables feedback and partnership.
"Teachers should continue to grow their confidence and competence in te reo me ngā tikanga Māori and in working with other cultures and to enrich the learning experiences for children."
Developing te reo and tikanga understanding; opportunity to deepen cultural competence.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Staffing ratios better than minimum; all assurance systems confirmed during review.
"Leaders agree that they should now make the shift to using internal evaluation to support decisions about improvement."
Leadership developing internal evaluation practices; improvement-focused but systems under review.
Source: Education Review Office review of BestStart Inglewood dated 2017-09-25, 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 computedThe 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
44 Cutfield Street, Inglewood. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is BestStart Inglewood a free kindergarten?
- BestStart Inglewood is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at BestStart Inglewood?
- 59 children attend BestStart Inglewood (roll year 2025).
- Where is BestStart Inglewood?
- 44 Cutfield Street Inglewood New Plymouth 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 #50120) ↗ · 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
Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.