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Kilbirnie Early Learners

Education & Care

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58 Bay Road, Kilbirnie · Wellington City

Total roll
20
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
60328

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 · 2025-09-11

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
↓C
"The service curriculum is not consistently informed by assessment, planning, and evaluation and there is no current policy in place to guide practice."

Curriculum lacks consistent assessment, planning, evaluation, and policy guidance.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Bicultural practice
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Health & safety
↓D
"ERO identified areas of non-compliance with regulatory standards that are an unacceptable risk to children."

Multiple critical non-compliances identified including emergency drills, sleep monitoring, daily hazard checks, attendan

Leadership & governance
↓D
"Better monitoring and implementation of health and safety systems, policies, processes, and practices are required by governance and management to meet regulatory requirements, and support best practice."

Governance and management failing to monitor and implement required systems and policies.

Source: Education Review Office review of Kilbirnie Early Learners dated 2025-09-11, 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 Kilbirnie Early Learners 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.

50 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2425)
50
Wellbeing
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=1871)
74
est
Health & Safety
20%
Grade D · bottom 10% of band (n=2319)
25
Leadership
15%
Grade D · bottom 10% of band (n=2400)
25
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

58 Bay Road, Kilbirnie. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Kilbirnie Early Learners a free kindergarten?
Kilbirnie Early Learners is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Kilbirnie Early Learners?
20 children attend Kilbirnie Early Learners (roll year 2025).
Where is Kilbirnie Early Learners?
58 Bay Road Kilbirnie Wellington City

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

Nearby & related

Kindercare Learning Centres Ltd (Kilbirnie) 0.5 km
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BestStart Montessori Kilbirnie 0.6 km
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BestStart Rongotai 0.6 km
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Te Kōhanga Reo o Ngā Mokopuna 0.6 km
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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.