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Pukeko Treehouse

Education & Care

📞 07-8478978

64 Avalon Drive, Nawton · Hamilton City

Pukeko Treehouse is an education and care service in Nawton with a roll of 67 children. Our analysis of the ERO report found children show good belonging and confidence with developing peer relationships. The service has identified areas for improvement in health and safety monitoring and in developing its internal evaluation systems.

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

Total roll
67
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
46978

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 · 2023-11-22

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
B
"Children demonstrate a sense of belonging and express their ideas confidently. Some children play cooperatively with their peers and have formed relationships with them."

Children show belonging and confidence; peer relationships developing well.

Whānau partnership
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Bicultural practice
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Health & safety
C
"Better monitoring of health and safety is required."

Health and safety monitoring requires improvement and closer attention.

Leadership & governance
C
"Internal evaluation systems are in the early stage of development in individual services and at an organisational level."

Leadership structures in place; internal evaluation systems still emerging.

Source: Education Review Office review of Pukeko Treehouse dated 2023-11-22, 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 Pukeko Treehouse 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.

62 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=2425)
71
est
Wellbeing
20%
Grade B · bottom 10% of band (n=1871)
70
Health & Safety
20%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2319)
50
Leadership
15%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2400)
50
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
est
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

64 Avalon Drive, Nawton. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Pukeko Treehouse a free kindergarten?
Pukeko Treehouse is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Pukeko Treehouse?
67 children attend Pukeko Treehouse (roll year 2025).
Where is Pukeko Treehouse?
64 Avalon Drive Nawton Hamilton 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.