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Pioneers Elm Row

Education & Care

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86 Elm Row, Arthur Street · Dunedin City

Pioneers Elm Row is an education and care service located in Dunedin City. Our analysis of the ERO report identified B grades for whānau partnership and leadership & governance, indicating parent governance is established and systematic evaluation practices are in place, with outcome monitoring developing.

AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.

Total roll
45
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
83014

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 · 2023-09-20

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
"A governance board of elected parents oversees the work of Pioneers."

Parent governance established; partnership mechanisms in place

Bicultural practice
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Health & safety
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Leadership & governance
→B
"Leaders and teachers have established, and are beginning to embed, the organisational conditions that enable collaboration for improvement. They promote distributed leadership opportunities and use a systematic approach to internal evaluation."

Systematic evaluation and distributed leadership established; outcome monitoring developing

Source: Education Review Office review of Pioneers Elm Row dated 2023-09-20, 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 computed

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where Pioneers Elm Row 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%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
66
est
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%
Estimated from national average · near band median (n=2375)
64
est

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

86 Elm Row, Arthur Street. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Pioneers Elm Row a free kindergarten?
Pioneers Elm Row is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Pioneers Elm Row?
45 children attend Pioneers Elm Row (roll year 2025).
Where is Pioneers Elm Row?
86 Elm Row Arthur Street Dunedin City

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Sources & verification

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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.