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Rātā Educare Waitakere

Education & Care

📞 09-8374471 🌐 Visit website ↗ ✉ Email centre

7 View Road, Henderson · Auckland - Henderson-Massey

Total roll
29
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
10176

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 · 2025-10-29

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
"Positive steps are taken to respect and acknowledge the aspirations held by parents and whānau for their children."

Positive steps taken to respect and acknowledge parental and whānau aspirations.

Bicultural practice
C
"Next steps include: increasing the visibility of the languages, cultures and identity of individual children in the environment and in their portfolios of learning."

Opportunity to increase visibility of languages, cultures and individual child identity.

Health & safety
→B
"During the onsite visit, the service provided ERO with evidence that showed it had addressed a non-compliance and is now taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards."

Non-compliance addressed; service now meets regulatory health and safety standards.

Leadership & governance
↑B
"A director and national co-ordinator provide governance and curriculum support. A qualified centre manager leads a team of four qualified and two unqualified teachers."

Clear governance structure with qualified centre manager and strong qualified teacher ratios.

Source: Education Review Office review of Rātā Educare Waitakere dated 2025-10-29, 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 computed

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where Rātā Educare Waitakere 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

7 View Road, Henderson. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Rātā Educare Waitakere a free kindergarten?
Rātā Educare Waitakere is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Rātā Educare Waitakere?
29 children attend Rātā Educare Waitakere (roll year 2025).
Where is Rātā Educare Waitakere?
7 View Road Henderson Auckland - Henderson-Massey

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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.