Lumsden Kindergarten
Education & Care
209 Lumsden Road, Akina · Hastings District
Lumsden Kindergarten is an education and care service in Akina with a roll of 68 children. Our analysis of the July 2024 ERO report indicates that health and safety meets legal requirements with no non-compliance noted, and leadership and governance shows positive steps including teacher professional learning, though improvement tracking needs development. Bicultural practice remains an emerging area with limited progress since 2018.
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 · 2024-07-29
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Leaders and teachers are beginning to build shared professional knowledge to design and implement a responsive curriculum for Māori and Pacific children and their whānau. This has been an identified area for improvement through ERO reports since 2013."
Emerging practice, long-standing improvement area, limited progress since 2018.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Legal requirements attested as met; no non-compliance noted in review.
"The new leadership team are taking positive steps to build relational trust with teachers to enable team collaboration. Teachers actively engage in professional learning, mentoring and sharing their own expertise to improve teaching practice."
Positive leadership steps, teacher engagement in PL, but improvement tracking needs work.
Source: Education Review Office review of Lumsden Kindergarten dated 2024-07-29, 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 Lumsden 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.
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
209 Lumsden Road, Akina. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Lumsden Kindergarten a free kindergarten?
- Lumsden Kindergarten is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Lumsden Kindergarten?
- 68 children attend Lumsden Kindergarten (roll year 2025).
- Where is Lumsden Kindergarten?
- 209 Lumsden Road Akina Hastings District
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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 #55049) ↗ · 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.