Licensed Before & After School in Gardena, CA

Before & After School in Gardena

As of August 2026

Gardena's 90 CCLD-licensed providers are mostly family child care homes: 66 homes versus 24 centers, a 73%-to-27% split. Combined licensed capacity is about 2,225 children, averaging roughly 25 per site. Preschool coverage leads at 93%, with infant and toddler care each around 78%. CloverMap organizes all 90 verified Gardena providers into one searchable roster. Age coverage stays fairly tight across every category, meaning families searching for any age group should find a comparable number of options to consider.

What to know about childcare in Gardena

Family child care homes make up 66 of Gardena's 90 licensed providers, about 73%, while centers account for the remaining 24, or 27%. Center-based providers such as ARISE FAMILY CHILDCARE CENTER LLC are among Gardena's smaller group of centers, set against the larger home-based majority.

Gardena's 90 providers report combined licensed capacity of about 2,225 children, averaging roughly 25 per site, a figure shaped by the roster's tilt toward smaller-scale home-based care rather than larger centers.

Age coverage in Gardena is strong across the roster: 84 of the 90 providers serve preschoolers, about 93%, while infants and toddlers are each served by 70 providers, roughly 78%, and school-age children by 68 providers, or 76%. That's a relatively tight range across age groups, meaning families searching for any age category should find a comparable number of options.

Gardena's providers are licensed under California's Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), which sets the same staffing ratios, facility rules, and operator qualifications for centers and family child care homes throughout the state, regardless of a provider's size.

Given that home-based care makes up nearly three-quarters of Gardena's roster, parents here should expect their search to surface more family child care homes than centers, and that's a practical starting point rather than a limitation, since homes represent the deeper pool. The 24 center-based providers remain a solid option for families who specifically want a larger, classroom-style setting. With age coverage running between 76% and 93% across all four categories, most families should find multiple options regardless of a child's current age.

For Gardena parents, that tight range across age groups means the search is unlikely to be bottlenecked by a child's specific age; the more meaningful decision point is typically setting preference, since family child care homes outnumber centers by a wide margin here and are likely to appear more often in initial search results. Every one of Gardena's 90 listed providers reported a capacity figure, so the 25-per-site average reflects the full roster rather than a partial sample. That relatively modest average lines up with a roster where family child care homes, generally smaller in scale than centers, account for 73% of all listed providers. CloverMap's Gardena page brings the full roster together so parents can apply that same setting and age filter without contacting each provider individually first.