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Gardner Road Kindergarten

Education & Care

📞 09-638 8760 ✉ Email centre

10 Gardner Road, Epsom · Auckland - Albert-Eden

Total roll
37
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
20053

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 · 2025-05-22

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 observed were settled and demonstrated a sense of ownership in the programme. They showed curiosity in their engagement in play. They are supported to express their ideas confidently and competently."

Children settled, confident, and demonstrate ownership; strong belonging and emotional safety evident.

Whānau partnership
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Bicultural practice
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

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 requirements management assurance completed; no compliance concerns noted.

Leadership & governance
C
"The service is establishing conditions, capabilities and collective capacity to do and use evaluation for improvement."

Evaluation for improvement capacity developing; strategic evaluation focus needs strengthening.

Source: Education Review Office review of Gardner Road Kindergarten dated 2025-05-22, 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 Gardner Road Kindergarten 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%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
70
Leadership
15%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2400)
50
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
est
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 Gardner Road, Epsom. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Operator financials

Year ended2025-12-31
Total revenue$675,751
Surplus / deficit$-31,370
Paid employees7

Source: Charities Services Annual Return

Frequently asked

Is Gardner Road Kindergarten a free kindergarten?
Gardner Road Kindergarten is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Gardner Road Kindergarten?
37 children attend Gardner Road Kindergarten (roll year 2025).
Where is Gardner Road Kindergarten?
10 Gardner Road Epsom Auckland - Albert-Eden

How much will this cost you? Use our FamilyBoost + Childcare Subsidy calculator to estimate your weekly out-of-pocket after government support.

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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: 2025-12-31· 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.