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St Albans Nest

Education & Care

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26 Somme Street, St Albans · Christchurch City

St Albans Nest is an education and care service in St Albans, Christchurch, with a roll of 50. Our analysis of the ERO report indicates strengths in whānau partnership and health and safety systems (both graded B), with bicultural practice and leadership and governance identified as areas for further development (both graded C).

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

Total roll
50
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
45683

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

Akanuku · 2021-10-11

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
"Te Whāriki forms the foundation of the curriculum that promotes responsive and reciprocal relationships with children, their parents, whānau."

Reciprocal relationships with parents and whānau promoted through curriculum foundation.

Bicultural practice
→C
"meaningful integration of te reo and te ao Māori into the daily curriculum."

Te reo and te ao Māori integration identified as next step for development.

Health & safety
B
"There is a system in place to monitor health and safety and changes are made when required."

Health and safety systems established and responsive to monitoring.

Leadership & governance
→C
"building the capability of leaders and kaiako to undertake internal evaluation, with a particular focus on identifying quality indicators to support analysis of data and inform decision making"

Internal evaluation capability identified as priority next step for leaders.

Source: Education Review Office review of St Albans Nest dated 2021-10-11, 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 St Albans Nest 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.

66 / 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 C · bottom 10% of band (n=2400)
50
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

26 Somme Street, St Albans. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is St Albans Nest a free kindergarten?
St Albans Nest is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at St Albans Nest?
50 children attend St Albans Nest (roll year 2025).
Where is St Albans Nest?
26 Somme Street St Albans Christchurch 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.