Licensed Toddler Care in Beaumont, CA

Toddler Care in Beaumont

As of August 2026

Beaumont's 30 licensed child care providers lean strongly toward family child care homes, which account for 25 of the roster against just 5 centers. Combined licensed capacity is 544 slots, an average of 18 per provider, reflecting the smaller scale typical of home-based care. Every provider is licensed through the California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD). CloverMap gives Beaumont families a single, verified place to browse and compare these listings.

What to know about childcare in Beaumont

Family child care homes make up the large majority of Beaumont's roster: 25 of 30 licensed providers, 83 percent, are homes, with only 5 centers, 17 percent. That's one of the more home-dominated mixes in this data set, meaning Beaumont families searching for child care will most often encounter a smaller, residence-based program rather than a classroom-style center.

Reflecting that home-heavy mix, Beaumont's combined licensed capacity totals 544 across 30 providers, an average of just 18 children per site, the lowest average in this batch of cities. Family child care homes are licensed for smaller groups by design, and with homes outnumbering centers five to one here, that pulls the citywide average capacity down accordingly.

Age coverage runs high across Beaumont's roster: 93 percent of providers serve preschool-age children, 90 percent serve both infants and toddlers, and 83 percent serve school-age children. That's a broad spread across every age band, suggesting Beaumont families searching for infant, toddler, preschool, or school-age care all have a fairly deep set of providers to consider.

Every Beaumont provider holds a license from the California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division, which licenses family child care homes and centers under separate standards. Family child care homes operate out of a caregiver's residence and are licensed for a smaller group size, while centers meet facility-based standards for larger groups; both categories must satisfy CCLD's health and safety requirements.

With family child care homes making up more than four in five of Beaumont's providers, most searches here will center on comparing homes against each other, though the city's 5 centers, including programs like Beaumont/Desert Preschool Academy, remain an option for families who want a classroom-style setting. CloverMap's Beaumont page makes it easy to compare the full roster by provider type and age coverage. Beaumont's broad age-band coverage across infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age groups means most families should find more than one provider to consider for their child's specific age, even though family child care homes dominate the roster by a wide margin. Touring a shortlisted home or one of the city's small number of centers, and confirming current availability directly, remains the most reliable way to move from browsing to enrollment. Beaumont families comparing several family child care homes may find it worthwhile to ask each one directly about daily group size and routine, since two homes with similar licensed capacity can still feel quite different day to day. Reaching out to more than one shortlisted provider, rather than a single top choice, tends to be the fastest path to an actual opening.