Licensed Before & After School in Davis, CA

Before & After School in Davis

As of August 2026

Davis' licensing roster lists 52 providers -- 40 centers and 12 family child care homes, a strongly center-leaning 77/23 split. Reported capacity totals 2,374 slots, averaging 46 per provider. Preschool coverage leads at 67% of providers, with infant, toddler, and school-age coverage each at 38%. Licensing runs through California's Community Care Licensing Division. CloverMap lets parents compare Davis' verified listings directly, alongside other Sacramento Valley cities in this same batch.

What to know about childcare in Davis

Davis leans heavily toward centers: 40 of its 52 providers are centers, versus just 12 family child care homes, a 77% to 23% split. Parents searching in Davis will most often be comparing larger, staff-based center programs, since family child care homes make up under a quarter of the roster here.

Combined licensed capacity across Davis' 52 providers totals 2,374 children, averaging about 46 slots per provider -- a comparatively high average, consistent with a center-dominated roster where individual providers tend to serve more children per site than in home-heavy cities elsewhere in this batch.

Age coverage in Davis is more modest across the board than in several other cities: 20 providers report serving infants (38%), 20 report toddlers (38%), 35 report preschoolers (67%), and 20 report school-age children (38%). With three of the four age bands tied at 38%, Davis families outside the preschool years may want to start their search earlier than in cities where infant, toddler, and school-age coverage run substantially higher.

Davis' providers are licensed through California's Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), part of the California Department of Social Services. Both centers and family child care homes are held to the same underlying licensing standards for staffing, health and safety, and facility conditions, with CCLD maintaining oversight throughout the life of each provider's license.

Given how few family child care homes appear on Davis' roster -- just 12 against 40 centers -- parents specifically wanting that smaller, residence-based setting should expect a short list. APPLEGATE NURSERY is one named provider on the roster; CloverMap's listings help parents narrow Davis' 52 providers by format and the specific ages each one serves.

Davis' combination of a center-heavy roster, comparatively high average capacity, and lower age-band coverage outside of preschool is a distinct profile within this batch -- closer in shape to Poway's roster than to the more home-heavy, broadly-covered cities like Paso Robles or National City. For families choosing between Davis and a more home-heavy or broadly-covered city in this batch, the tradeoff is fairly direct: Davis offers higher average capacity and a strong preschool figure, but comparatively thinner infant, toddler, and school-age coverage, all tied at 38%, meaning a family with a very young child may need to start outreach earlier here than in a city like Lakewood or Hemet. That earlier-outreach approach applies most to infant care specifically, since infant slots at center-based programs like the ones that dominate Davis' roster tend to be the first to fill each enrollment cycle.