Licensed Preschool in Dixon, CA

Preschool in Dixon

As of August 2026

Dixon's child care roster includes 27 providers logged with California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), split between 22 center-based programs and 5 family child care homes (81% centers, 19% homes). Centers outnumber homes here, 81% to 19%, giving Dixon a program-heavy footprint with roughly 1061 total licensed slots across the roster and an average of about 39 slots per provider. Preschool coverage is the widest age band on the roster, at 56% of providers. CloverMap lets parents browse the full, verified list of Dixon providers directly.

What to know about childcare in Dixon

Providers in Dixon split 81% centers to 19% family child care homes, 22 and 5 respectively out of 27 total. A center-based program generally offers dedicated classroom space and multiple staff members organized by age group; a family child care home operates from a caregiver's residence with a smaller enrolled group. That mix, 22 centers alongside 5 homes, is the starting point for any Dixon search, and it's worth deciding early which format fits before narrowing down to specific providers.

Dixon's licensed capacity totals 1061 across its 27 providers, an average of 39 children per provider. This citywide figure is the sum of very different scales: centers with dozens of enrolled slots sit alongside family child care homes licensed for a handful of children each. That spread is normal for a roster with both formats represented, and it means the 39-slot average is more useful as a general sense of scale than as a prediction for any specific provider a family might contact.

Not every provider in Dixon serves every age group. 15 of the 27 providers (56%) cover preschool-age children, 13 (48%) cover school-age, and infant/toddler coverage sits at 9 and 9 providers (33%/33%). That distribution is a useful filter before contacting any single provider, since it narrows a full roster of 27 down to just the subset that actually serves the age a family needs.

California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) is the state agency responsible for licensing child care centers and family child care homes throughout California, including Dixon. A license from CCLD confirms that a provider has met the state's requirements to operate legally — covering staffing, group size, and the physical space where care is provided. Centers and family child care homes are licensed under separate categories, which is why Dixon's roster shows both formats represented rather than a single uniform provider type. Both categories fall under the same statewide agency, so a family comparing a center and a home in Dixon is comparing two providers licensed under the same overall framework, just different administrative categories within it.

Because centers make up 81% of Dixon's roster, most searches here will start with center-based programs — larger, staffed operations with set enrollment periods. Parents who specifically want a smaller, home-based setting still have 5 family child care homes to consider, a smaller slice of the market worth asking about directly since it's less visible by sheer numbers than the center-heavy majority. One provider on Dixon's roster, "BERT & ERNIE'S PRESCHOOL", illustrates the kind of listing CloverMap surfaces alongside licensing category, reported capacity, and age-group coverage for the rest of the city's providers.

For a family narrowing a list of Dixon providers, the most useful filters tend to be format (center versus family child care home), age group served, and reported capacity — all of which are available on the roster itself before a single phone call is made. Out of 27 total providers, cross-referencing those three data points typically narrows a citywide list down to a short set worth contacting directly, which is a more efficient starting point than reaching out to every listed provider in Dixon one by one.