Kindy Cottage Childcare
Education & Care
17 Graham Collins Drive, Mairangi Bay · Auckland - Upper Harbour
Kindy Cottage Childcare is an education and care service in Mairangi Bay with 38 children on roll. Our analysis of the July 2024 ERO report shows strengths in children's wellbeing and health & safety (both grade B), with emerging areas in whānau partnership and leadership & governance (both grade C).
AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.
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 · 2024-07-11
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Infants, toddlers, and young children are viewed as capable learners. They are given opportunities to play and learn alongside each other in a shared outdoor learning environment."
Children have positive learning opportunities and play-based environment.
"The manager recognises the need to now focus on increasing engagement with whānau to further establish relationships and in time, learning-focused partnerships."
Whānau engagement is emerging; focus needed on building partnerships.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"The leader has had a focus on implementing policies and procedures to meet health and safety requirements for children."
Health and safety policies and procedures established and implemented.
"A shared understanding of evaluation for improvement across the team is being developed through collaborative efforts. The team use evaluation to identify improvements made, areas to strengthen, and action is taken as a result."
Evaluation and improvement systems emerging; being developed collaboratively.
Source: Education Review Office review of Kindy Cottage Childcare dated 2024-07-11, 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 computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Kindy Cottage Childcare 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.
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
17 Graham Collins Drive, Mairangi Bay. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Kindy Cottage Childcare a free kindergarten?
- Kindy Cottage Childcare is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Kindy Cottage Childcare?
- 38 children attend Kindy Cottage Childcare (roll year 2025).
- Where is Kindy Cottage Childcare?
- 17 Graham Collins Drive Mairangi Bay Auckland - Upper Harbour
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Sources & verification
Every fact on this page links back to its government source. Verify directly:
- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #10263) ↗ · CC-BY 4.0 via data.govt.nz
- ERO reviews: ERO institution page ↗ · Crown copyright (reuse permitted with attribution)
- Suburb safety & demographics: SafeSuburbs ↗ · crimestats.co.nz ↗ · NZ Police RCVD + Stats NZ 2023 Census, CC-BY 4.0
- Funding policy (20 Hours / Childcare Subsidy / FamilyBoost): parents.education.govt.nz · WINZ · IRD · Crown copyright (policy only — we cite parameters, don't republish)
- Map tiles: © OpenStreetMap · © CARTO · ODbL + CC-BY 3.0
- Machine-readable formats: facts.json · markdown.md
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)
Service type, address, roll, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours, Takiwā, lat/lng
Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)
Per-centre review reports + 6-dimension letter grades (curriculum / wellbeing / whānau / bicultural / health & safety / leadership)
Safety score, crime/1k, 2023 Census demographics
Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.