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Curious Keas Ltd

Education & Care

📞 07-8778224 ✉ Email centre

10 Kea Street, Aria · Waitomo District

Total roll
40
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
45900

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 · 2024-12-16

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
→B
"Children experience positive and responsive relationships with people and places that are important to them. Teachers and leaders know children and their families well, and this forms the basis of the daily curriculum."

Positive relationships established; children supported as active, capable learners

Whānau partnership
→B
"Parents and whānau are involved in the events that inform the developing local curriculum. There are established, reciprocal connections between the centre, local community, and schools within their area."

Whānau involved in curriculum development; reciprocal community connections

Bicultural practice
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Health & safety
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Leadership & governance
↓C
"Leaders and teachers are beginning to build their knowledge and understanding of effective internal evaluation. The service is exploring how collaborative inquiry can support teachers to reflect on practice centred on outcomes for children. Leaders are considering how to strengthen organisational conditions that will support a focus on ongoing improvement. The service is not yet regularly evaluating what is and is not working, and for which children."

Internal evaluation emerging; not yet regular or systematic improvement focus

Source: Education Review Office review of Curious Keas Ltd dated 2024-12-16, 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 3 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.

Composite score

How this is computed

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where Curious Keas Ltd 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%
Grade B · bottom 10% of band (n=1871)
70
Health & Safety
20%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
66
est
Leadership
15%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2400)
50
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Estimated from national average · near band median (n=2375)
64
est

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

10 Kea Street, Aria. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Curious Keas Ltd a free kindergarten?
Curious Keas Ltd is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Curious Keas Ltd?
40 children attend Curious Keas Ltd (roll year 2025).
Where is Curious Keas Ltd?
10 Kea Street Aria Waitomo District

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Sources & verification

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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)
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.