Licensed Daycares in El Dorado Hills, CA

Daycare & Childcare in El Dorado Hills

As of August 2026

El Dorado Hills families have 19 licensed child care providers to choose from, leaning toward centers: 19 centers to 14 family child care homes, about 58 percent centers to 42 percent homes. Combined licensed capacity reaches 1,183 slots, averaging 36 per site. California's Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) licenses and oversees the roster. CloverMap lists El Dorado Hills' providers, including Busy Bees Preschool, for parents to browse. Parents can use the capacity and age-coverage figures here to narrow a shortlist before contacting a program.

What to know about childcare in El Dorado Hills

El Dorado Hills' 19 licensed providers lean toward centers, with 19 centers against 14 family child care homes, roughly 58 percent to 42 percent. That's a moderate center lean, giving El Dorado Hills parents more center-based options than home-based ones, though family child care homes still make up a substantial share of the roster. El Dorado Hills's roster gives parents both operating models close at hand: centers that group children by age across multiple staffed classrooms, and family child care homes that keep a single caregiver responsible for a smaller, mixed-age group inside a private residence. Neither model outnumbers the other enough to limit a family's practical choice in El Dorado Hills.

Combined licensed capacity across the 33 providers totals 1,183 children, averaging 36 per site, a solid mid-to-upper range figure for this batch, consistent with the center-leaning mix. That capacity figure reflects the total number of children a provider is licensed to serve, not necessarily how many openings exist at any given moment, so El Dorado Hills families should treat it as a ceiling on program size rather than a live vacancy count.

Age coverage in El Dorado Hills is led by preschool, with 26 of the 33 providers serving that age group. Infant and toddler care are each offered by 17 providers, and school-age care by 16, giving families reasonably even options at every stage with preschool as the deepest. Because staffing ratio requirements are generally tighter for younger children, it is common for fewer providers to serve infants than preschoolers; El Dorado Hills families with an infant should expect a somewhat narrower initial search before more options open up as their child ages into the toddler and preschool ranges.

All 33 providers are licensed through the California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), which sets and enforces minimum staffing, health, and safety standards for centers and family child care homes across the state. A CCLD license is issued after a provider demonstrates it meets the state's baseline requirements, and the license type, center or family child care home, determines which set of operating rules applies. Centers and homes are licensed under separate frameworks, part of why their typical group sizes and staffing patterns differ so much across a roster like El Dorado Hills's.

With centers making up a majority of El Dorado Hills' roster, parents may find slightly more center-based options during their search, while the 14 family child care homes remain a solid alternative. Busy Bees Preschool is one of the providers on the roster, and CloverMap lists all 33 for comparison. Because a licensing roster reflects who is currently authorized to operate rather than who has space available today, calling ahead remains the most reliable way for El Dorado Hills families to confirm real-time openings once they have narrowed down a shortlist.