The Park Early Education Centre
Education & Care
89 Naylor St, Hamilton East · Hamilton City
ERO assessed The Park Early Education Centre as Not well placed in September 2019. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strengths in curriculum and learning, whānau partnership, health and safety, and leadership and governance, with bicultural practice graded as developing further.
AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.
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
Education Review · 2019-09-18
This review predates ERO's current 4-point placement scale (introduced 2020). The overall judgement is omitted; the per-dimension grades below are extracted from the review prose and remain comparable.
"Children have extensive learning opportunities through a well-designed, quality curriculum. They have access to an extensive range of resources to actively explore and make discoveries."
Exemplary curriculum design with extensive resources and intentional teaching practices.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Home and centre experiences are reciprocally shared between whanau and teachers. Families contributions demonstrate the holistic and collaborative learning approach between the centre and home."
Strong reciprocal partnerships with families demonstrating collaborative learning approach.
"Te reo and tikanga is naturally interwoven throughout the day. Teachers value what children know and bring to their learning. Positive and equitable learning opportunities nurtures all children's wairua and holistic development."
Te reo and tikanga embedded in practice; identified opportunity to strengthen visibility in planning.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Full compliance with health, safety and legal requirements demonstrated.
"Centre leaders are highly effective and make time for teachers to critically reflect on their practice. Internal evaluation processes ensure centre systems and practices sustain high quality education and lead to continual improvement. Internal evaluation is systematic, robust, and aligns to the services overall vision."
Exemplary leadership with robust internal evaluation and professional development systems.
Source: Education Review Office review of The Park Early Education Centre dated 2019-09-18, 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 computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where The Park Early Education 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.
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
89 Naylor St, Hamilton East. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is The Park Early Education Centre a free kindergarten?
- The Park Early Education Centre is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at The Park Early Education Centre?
- 82 children attend The Park Early Education Centre (roll year 2025).
- Where is The Park Early Education Centre?
- 89 Naylor St Hamilton East Hamilton City
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Sources & verification
Every fact on this page links back to its government source. Verify directly:
- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #45254) ↗ · CC-BY 4.0 via data.govt.nz
- ERO reviews: ERO institution page ↗ · Crown copyright (reuse permitted with attribution)
- Suburb safety & demographics: SafeSuburbs ↗ · crimestats.co.nz ↗ · NZ Police RCVD + Stats NZ 2023 Census, CC-BY 4.0
- Funding policy (20 Hours / Childcare Subsidy / FamilyBoost): parents.education.govt.nz · WINZ · IRD · Crown copyright (policy only — we cite parameters, don't republish)
- Map tiles: © OpenStreetMap · © CARTO · ODbL + CC-BY 3.0
- Machine-readable formats: facts.json · markdown.md
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)
Service type, address, roll, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours, Takiwā, lat/lng
Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)
Per-centre review reports + 6-dimension letter grades (curriculum / wellbeing / whānau / bicultural / health & safety / leadership)
Safety score, crime/1k, 2023 Census demographics
Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.