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Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre

Education & Care

📞 07-5578737

36 Lagoon Place, Poike · Tauranga City

Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre is an education and care service in Poike with a roll of 100 children. Our analysis of the ERO report indicates B grades for curriculum and learning, and health and safety, with a play-based curriculum and Te Whāriki outcomes documented in assessments. Leadership and governance received a C grade, with an identified gap in internal evaluation and monitoring of curriculum impact across different groups.

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

Total roll
100
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
40042

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 · 2024-05-06

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
B
"Children experience a play-based curriculum supported by caring relationships between adults and children."

Play-based curriculum evident; Te Whāriki outcomes documented in assessment records.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Bicultural practice
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Health & safety
B
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."

Management assurance provided; legal requirements attested; 100% qualified teachers.

Leadership & governance
↓C
"Leaders and teachers are not yet monitoring or evaluating how the curriculum impacts on the learning of specific groups of children."

Internal evaluation gap identified; not yet monitoring curriculum impact on specific groups.

Source: Education Review Office review of Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre dated 2024-05-06, 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 Toi Ohomai Childcare 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.

67 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2425)
70
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%
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

36 Lagoon Place, Poike. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre a free kindergarten?
Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre?
100 children attend Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre (roll year 2025).
Where is Toi Ohomai Childcare Centre?
36 Lagoon Place Poike Tauranga 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.