The Education Review Office (ERO) is the New Zealand government department that evaluates and reports on the education and care of students in schools and early childhood services.

ERO’s reports are used by parents, teachers, early childhood education managers, school principals and trustees, and by government policy makers.

What ERO does…

ERO carries out several different types of reviews and evaluations – education reviews, homeschool reviews, cluster reviews of education institutions and services, contract evaluations and national evaluations on education topics.

Education Reviews…

Education reviews are reports to boards of trustees, managers of early childhood education services and the Government on the quality of education provided for children and students in individual centres and schools.

Schools and early childhood services are reviewed on average once every three years. Reviews will be more frequent where the performance of a school or centre is poor and there are risks to the education and safety of the students, or less frequent where a school has a stable reporting history and demonstrates good self review processes and use of its assessment information. ERO’s reports on individual schools and early childhood services are freely available to the public.

The Purpose of an ERO Report

The purpose of ERO’s reviews is to give parents and the wider school community assurance about the quality of education that schools provide and their children receive. An ERO school report answers the question “How effectively is this school’s curriculum promoting student learning – engagement, progress and achievement?” Under that overarching question ERO reports on the quality of education and learning outcomes for children and for specific groups of children including Māori students, Pacific students and students with special needs. ERO also reports on the quality of the school’s systems for sustaining and continuing improvements.

What ERO said about Mt Pleasant…

How well is the school achieving equitable outcomes for all children?

"The school is very effectively responding to Māori and other children whose learning and achievement need to be accelerated.

The school has high-quality processes and practices in the areas of curriculum, leadership, stewardship, and relationships with parents, whānau and the community.

Students learn, achieve and progress within broad and rich curriculum programmes. The school and community are engaged in reciprocal learning-centred relationships.

Effective leadership builds relational trust, participation and collaboration across the school and beyond. The board focuses on the effectiveness of the school in achieving valued student outcomes.

School leaders and teachers need to continue to develop culturally responsive approaches to teaching and learning.

At the time of this review, high levels of achievement in numeracy and literacy had been sustained for the past three years.

Children are achieving well. The school demonstrates strong progress toward achieving equity in educational outcomes, supported by effective, sustainable processes and practices.

ERO is likely to carry out the next review in four to five years."

Want to read more… click here for our full 2017 report

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