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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.

Total roll
98
2025
Under 2s
20 Hours ECE
MOE #
25343

Roll breakdown

By age

By ethnicity

Note: a child may be counted under multiple ethnicities (total may exceed roll).

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ERO review · 2017-03-08· superseded by operator-wide review above

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
B
"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's wellbeing
B
"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.

Whānau partnership
B
"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.

Bicultural practice
C
"Teachers in this centre need support to improve their bicultural practice."

Bicultural practice identified as an area requiring improvement and professional support.

Health & safety
B
"Teachers have improved supervision and health and safety practices."

Supervision and health and safety practices have improved; compliance addressed.

Leadership & governance
B
"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 computed
68 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2425)
70
Wellbeing
20%
Grade B · bottom 10% of band (n=1871)
70
Health & Safety
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
70
Leadership
15%
Grade B · below band median (n=2400)
70
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2375)
50

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

2 Wagener Place, St Lukes. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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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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Data sources & freshness (4 sources · last refresh 12 July 2026)

Service type, address, roll, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours, Takiwā, lat/lng

As of: Roll year 2025· Refresh: Nightly source · re-pulled on every deploy

Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)

As of: 545 centres covered· Refresh: Annual filings · re-ingested with each refresh

Per-centre review reports + 6-dimension letter grades (curriculum / wellbeing / whānau / bicultural / health & safety / leadership)

As of: 10,663 reports / 4,194 centres · latest review 2026-05-18· Refresh: On review publication · CC-BY 4.0 attribution

Safety score, crime/1k, 2023 Census demographics

As of: 2023 Census· Refresh: Quarterly police data · 5-yearly census

Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.