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Otago Polytechnic Childcare Centre

Education & Care

📞 03-4796169

Forth Street, Campus North · Dunedin City

Total roll
50
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
83054

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 · 2025-02-04

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
↑B
"Leaders and kaiako work closely with parents to develop individualised learning plans for these children."

Close partnership with parents; individualised learning plans developed collaboratively.

Bicultural practice
→C
"Children are exposed to some aspects of te reo Māori. However, the bicultural curriculum is not yet strongly visible in the programme or the documentation."

Basic te reo exposure; bicultural curriculum not yet strongly embedded in practice.

Health & safety
→B
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."

Legal requirements met; assurance processes in place; no concerns noted in review.

Leadership & governance
→B
"Collaborative leadership supports the teaching team to improve their practice and build professional capability. High relational trust is evident and modelled by leaders."

Collaborative leadership; high relational trust; developing internal evaluation frameworks.

Source: Education Review Office review of Otago Polytechnic Childcare Centre dated 2025-02-04, 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 Otago Polytechnic Childcare 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.

69 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=2425)
71
est
Wellbeing
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=1871)
74
est
Health & Safety
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
70
Leadership
15%
Grade B · below band median (n=2400)
70
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2375)
50

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

Forth Street, Campus North. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Otago Polytechnic Childcare Centre a free kindergarten?
Otago Polytechnic Childcare Centre is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Otago Polytechnic Childcare Centre?
50 children attend Otago Polytechnic Childcare Centre (roll year 2025).
Where is Otago Polytechnic Childcare Centre?
Forth Street Campus North Dunedin City

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Nearby & related

Otago University Childcare Association - College Centre 0.3 km
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Kelsey-Yaralla Kindergarten 0.3 km
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Otago University Childcare Association - Te Pā 0.4 km
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Children's Play and Recreation Centre 0.9 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.