Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds
Education & Care
30 Rogers Street, Ealing-Lowcliffe · Ashburton District
Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds is an education and care service in Ealing-Lowcliffe with a current roll of 35 children. Our analysis of the June 2024 ERO report found the centre received B grades across all four dimensions: curriculum and learning, whānau partnership, health and safety, and leadership and governance. The centre operates a broad Te Whāriki-aligned curriculum with well-resourced environments and maintains regular communication with whānau, though assessment documentation and learning priority alignment are areas under review.
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 · 2024-06-17
"Children experience a broad curriculum aligned with Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. They learn and play in well resourced, age-appropriate environments."
Broad Te Whāriki-aligned curriculum with well-resourced environments; assessment documentation inconsistencies acknowled
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Parents and whānau have regular opportunities to share their values, beliefs, and perspectives."
Regular communication and opportunities for whānau voice; learning priorities under review with community.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Legal requirements attestation completed; systems for managing emotional and physical safety reviewed.
"Governance and management work collaboratively and are improvement focused. They provide professional mentoring and support for teachers within the service through the professional growth cycles."
Collaborative leadership with professional mentoring; internal evaluation capability building underway.
Source: Education Review Office review of Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds dated 2024-06-17, 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 Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds 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
30 Rogers Street, Ealing-Lowcliffe. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds a free kindergarten?
- Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds?
- 35 children attend Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds (roll year 2025).
- Where is Leap Ahead Early Childhood Centre - Hinds?
- 30 Rogers Street Ealing-Lowcliffe Ashburton District
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #70121) ↗ · 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
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