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Oak Street Kindergarten

6 Oak Street, Drouin, VIC, 3818

Exceeding NQSCentre-Based CareOperating
Provider
Young Mens Christian Association OF Ballarat INC
Approval number
SE-00002828
Approved places
62
Approval granted
2012-01-01
Phone
0343111593
Last visit date
July 2026

NQS ratings

Issued Jul 2023

  • OverallExceeding NQS
  • QA1 Educational program and practiceExceeding NQS
  • QA2 Children's health and safetyExceeding NQS
  • QA3 Physical environmentExceeding NQS
  • QA4 Staffing arrangementsExceeding NQS
  • QA5 Relationships with childrenExceeding NQS
  • QA6 Collaborative partnershipsExceeding NQS
  • QA7 Governance and leadershipExceeding NQS

Previous overall rating: Exceeding NQS (Sep 2018)

Nature of care

  • Long day care: No
  • Preschool / kindergarten (part of a school): No
  • Preschool / kindergarten (stand alone): Yes
  • Outside school hours care (after school): No
  • Outside school hours care (before school): No
  • Outside school hours care (vacation care): No
  • Other: No

Hours

School terms, session 1

Monday08:45 - 16:15
Tuesday08:45 - 16:15
Wednesday08:15 - 15:45
Thursday08:15 - 15:45
Friday08:15 - 15:45
SaturdayNot available
SundayNot available

School terms, session 2

Monday08:30 - 16:30
Tuesday08:15 - 15:45
Wednesday08:30 - 16:00
Thursday08:30 - 16:00
Friday08:30 - 16:00
SaturdayNot available
SundayNot available

Approval conditions

The educator to child ratio for children aged 36 months of age to preschool age will be at least one educator to 11.5 children.

Source: ACECQA National Registers

Official source record

How we use ACECQA data

Last imported 26 Aug 2026

Geocode: geonames-au-postcodes

Fees and vacancies: Not available from ACECQA — see the fees guide.

How this centre compares

Oak Street Kindergarten against nearby centres, its suburb and state using published ACECQA fields and ChildcareScout Score.

Exceeding NQS
  • Above nearby average (+8)
  • Above suburb average (+8)
  • Above state average (+9)

ChildcareScout Score

Track zoomed to 83–96 so gaps are visible

  • This centre95
  • Nearby centres (8)88
  • Drouin (15)87
  • VIC (5017)86

Exceeding / Excellent share

  • This centreExceeding NQS
  • Nearby centres25%
  • Drouin20%
  • VIC21%

For this centre the chart marks whether its overall rating is Exceeding/Excellent; area rows show the share of services with those ratings.

Approved places

This centre
62
Nearby centres
60
Drouin
64
VIC
72

Approved places are licensed capacity, not live vacancies.

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Nearby services

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