BestStart Mount Wellington
Education & Care
113-115 Mt Wellington Highway, Mt Wellington · Auckland - Maungakiekie-Tāmaki
ERO assessed BestStart Mount Wellington as Not well placed in its 2018 review. Our analysis of the ERO report identified curriculum and learning as an area requiring development, with planning and assessment processes needing consistency improvements. The service demonstrated strengths in children's wellbeing, whānau partnership, bicultural practice, and health and safety.
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ERO Review · 2018-04-18· superseded by operator-wide review above
"Leaders are currently rebuilding and refreshing planning and assessment processes. With a number of new teachers, this curriculum work is timely. It should assist teachers to achieve greater consistency with planning and recording children's learning progress in the portfolios."
Planning and assessment processes under development; consistency improvements needed.
"Children settle quickly into the programme and are supported through positive relationships with their teachers. Staff focus on building children's social competence and support children to successfully manage their own self-care."
Strong relationships, quick settling, good social-emotional support evident.
"Leaders and teachers are building trust and learning partnerships with parents. They are committed to finding ways for families to contribute to learning programmes and to share their values and aspects of their cultural backgrounds."
Trust-building and family involvement in programmes demonstrated.
"Māori and Pacific perspectives and home languages are used well to help children learn."
Te reo and tikanga well integrated; strengthening identified as next step.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Assurance statement completed; legal compliance requirements met.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Source: Education Review Office review of BestStart Mount Wellington dated 2018-04-18, 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 Mount Wellington 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
113-115 Mt Wellington Highway, Mt Wellington. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is BestStart Mount Wellington a free kindergarten?
- BestStart Mount Wellington is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at BestStart Mount Wellington?
- 100 children attend BestStart Mount Wellington (roll year 2025).
- Where is BestStart Mount Wellington?
- 113-115 Mt Wellington Highway Mt Wellington Auckland - Maungakiekie-Tāmaki
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Sources & verification
Every fact on this page links back to its government source. Verify directly:
- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #46112) ↗ · 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.