BestStart St Lukes
Education & Care
2 Wagener Place, St Lukes · Auckland - Albert-Eden
ERO assessed BestStart St Lukes as Not well placed in March 2017. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strengths in curriculum and learning, children's wellbeing, whānau partnership, health and safety, and leadership, but found bicultural practice required improvement and professional support.
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
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ERO review · 2017-03-08· superseded by operator-wide review above
"Teachers have made good progress with how they document teaching strategies and programme planning, assessment and evaluation."
Good progress on documentation and assessment; opportunity to strengthen programme planning further.
"Children are encouraged to participate, think and be independent. They are developing social skills and confidently engage with their peers and with adults."
Children developing social skills, independence, and positive peer engagement.
"Increasingly parents contribute to children's learning records. Teachers are working to enhance parent and whanau partnerships in learning and to respond more specifically to children's individual and group interests and dispositions."
Increasing parent contribution to learning records; actively working to enhance partnerships.
"Teachers in this centre need support to improve their bicultural practice."
Bicultural practice identified as an area requiring improvement and professional support.
"Teachers have improved supervision and health and safety practices."
Supervision and health and safety practices have improved; compliance addressed.
"A collaborative, inclusive process of internal evaluation has been established. Head teachers are supporting their teams to reflect on and improve through teaching practice."
Collaborative internal evaluation established; leadership developing reflective practice in teams.
Source: Education Review Office review of BestStart St Lukes dated 2017-03-08, 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
2 Wagener Place, St Lukes. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is BestStart St Lukes a free kindergarten?
- BestStart St Lukes is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at BestStart St Lukes?
- 98 children attend BestStart St Lukes (roll year 2025).
- Where is BestStart St Lukes?
- 2 Wagener Place St Lukes Auckland - Albert-Eden
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #25343) ↗ · 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.