Mt Royal Early Learning Centre
Education & Care
88 Mt Royal Avenue, Mount Albert · Auckland - Albert-Eden
Mt Royal Early Learning Centre is an education and care service in Mount Albert with 25 children on roll. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strengths in health and safety management, with systems in place following earlier non-compliance. Areas requiring further development include whānau partnership (with informal parent engagement and need for systematic recording of aspirations), bicultural practice (early-stage development with celebrations evident but limited depth), and leadership and governance (professional learning initiated but evaluative reasoning needs strengthening).
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 · 2024-06-24
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"The views of parents and families are currently sought informally through conversations. Leaders have self-identified the need to purposefully seek, record and utilise parent aspirations to strengthen their curriculum planning."
Parent engagement is informal; systematic recording of aspirations needed.
"The teachers have begun to consider appropriate cultural practices for their learners. This is evident in their promotion of te reo Māori, Pacific and Korean language through song, dance, stories, and cultural celebrations."
Early-stage cultural practice; celebrations evident but depth needs development.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Non-compliance addressed; systems in place for health and safety management.
"The leader has been pro-active in seeking professional learning and has identified that evaluative reasoning needs to be a learning focus across the team. As a result, the team are beginning to use relevant research to generate solutions and support decision making."
Professional learning initiated; evaluative reasoning emerging but requires strengthening.
Source: Education Review Office review of Mt Royal Early Learning Centre dated 2024-06-24, 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 2 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Mt Royal Early Learning Centre 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
88 Mt Royal Avenue, Mount Albert. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Mt Royal Early Learning Centre a free kindergarten?
- Mt Royal Early Learning Centre is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Mt Royal Early Learning Centre?
- 25 children attend Mt Royal Early Learning Centre (roll year 2025).
- Where is Mt Royal Early Learning Centre?
- 88 Mt Royal Avenue Mount Albert Auckland - Albert-Eden
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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 #10351) ↗ · 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.