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Cherry's on Maryhill

Education & Care

📞 03-3381999 🌐 Visit website ↗ ✉ Email centre

5 Maryhill Avenue, Hoon Hay · Christchurch City

Cherry's on Maryhill is an education and care service in Hoon Hay with 45 children on roll. Our analysis of the May 2023 ERO report shows the service received B grades for whānau partnership and health & safety, and a C grade for bicultural practice. The report noted positive whānau relationships with opportunities to deepen Māori engagement, and observed that te reo and cultural celebrations are embedded in routines, though bicultural curriculum development is in early stages.

AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.

Total roll
45
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
45151

Roll breakdown

By age

By ethnicity

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

Operator

Standalone

Cultural & rohe

ERO review

Akarangi · 2023-05-19

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

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
B
"Teachers build positive relationships with children and whānau."

Positive relationships evident; opportunity to deepen Māori whānau engagement on educational success.

Bicultural practice
↓C
"A next step is to explore with whanau what Māori educational success means to them."

Cultural celebrations and te reo embedded in routines; bicultural curriculum development in early stages.

Health & safety
↓B
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."

Legal compliance attested; systems in place for supervision, hygiene, ratios and safety procedures.

Leadership & governance
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Source: Education Review Office review of Cherry's on Maryhill dated 2023-05-19, 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

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where Cherry's on Maryhill 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.

68 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=2425)
71
est
Wellbeing
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=1871)
74
est
Health & Safety
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
70
Leadership
15%
Estimated from national average · below band median (n=2400)
66
est
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

5 Maryhill Avenue, Hoon Hay. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Cherry's on Maryhill a free kindergarten?
Cherry's on Maryhill is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Cherry's on Maryhill?
45 children attend Cherry's on Maryhill (roll year 2025).
Where is Cherry's on Maryhill?
5 Maryhill Avenue Hoon Hay Christchurch City

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

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
Charities Services

Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)

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

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
Suburb context

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.