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Colville Bay Pre-School

Education & Care

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2391 Colville Road, Inlets Waikato Region · Thames-Coromandel District

Colville Bay Pre-School is an education and care service with 20 children on roll. Our analysis of the ERO report identifies whānau partnership and bicultural practice as areas for development, while health and safety and leadership and governance meet expected standards.

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

Total roll
20
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
34045

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

Akanuku · 2024-01-30

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
C
"increasing the range of opportunities for children and their families to share aspects of their cultures with others in the service and documenting this in curriculum records"

Limited documentation of family cultural sharing; identified as next step for improvement.

Bicultural practice
↓C
"increasing the opportunities children have to hear and speak te reo Māori in meaningful learning contexts"

Te reo Māori integration exists but identified as area needing more meaningful contexts.

Health & safety
→B
"At the time of the review, ERO found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards."

Meets regulatory standards for health and safety compliance.

Leadership & governance
→B
"The head teacher provides professional leadership to a small teaching team."

Professional leadership demonstrated; governance and management structures in place.

Source: Education Review Office review of Colville Bay Pre-School dated 2024-01-30, 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 Colville Bay Pre-School 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.

66 / 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%
Grade B · below band median (n=2400)
70
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=1880)
50
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

2391 Colville Road, Inlets Waikato Region. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Operator financials

Year ended2024-12-31
Total revenue$173,419
Surplus / deficit$-18,377
Paid employees5

Source: Charities Services Annual Return

Frequently asked

Is Colville Bay Pre-School a free kindergarten?
Colville Bay Pre-School is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Colville Bay Pre-School?
20 children attend Colville Bay Pre-School (roll year 2025).
Where is Colville Bay Pre-School?
2391 Colville Road Inlets Waikato Region Thames-Coromandel District

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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: 2024-12-31· 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.