Licensed Infant Care in Monrovia, CA

Infant Care in Monrovia

As of August 2026

Monrovia has 21 licensed child care providers on record with the California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), an even split of 11 centers and 10 family child care homes. Combined, these providers report a licensed capacity of 865 children, an average of about 41 per site, and 20 of the 21 note preschool-age enrollment. CloverMap lets Monrovia parents browse this full, verified roster, including centers such as First Lutheran Preschool, to compare capacity and provider type before making a call.

What to know about childcare in Monrovia

Monrovia's 21 licensed providers split nearly evenly between center-based programs and family child care homes: 11 centers and 10 homes. That balance matters for parents weighing options, since centers typically operate in a dedicated facility with multiple staff and classrooms organized by age group, while family child care homes run out of a caregiver's residence with a smaller, more consistent group of children across a wider age range. Neither model is inherently better; the right fit depends on a family's schedule, the child's temperament, and how a parent weighs a larger program's staffing depth against a home setting's smaller group size.

Across all 21 providers, Monrovia's combined licensed capacity is 865 children, averaging about 41 per site. That average masks real variation between the city's larger center-based programs, which can license dozens of seats each, and its home-based providers, which are capped at far smaller sizes by design. Parents should treat the citywide capacity figure as a scale indicator rather than a guarantee of open seats at any single site.

Age-group coverage is broad in Monrovia: 11 of the 21 providers report serving infants, 11 report toddler care, 20 report preschool-age children, and 10 report school-age programming. In practice, that means the large majority of the city's providers can accommodate a child from the preschool years, while roughly half also serve infants, toddlers, or school-age children before and after the school day. Families with an infant or a school-age child needing before/after care will want to filter specifically for those services rather than assume every listed provider covers the full age range.

Every provider in this roster is licensed through the California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division. A CCLD license means the operator has been evaluated against the state's requirements for staff qualifications, group sizes, and the physical environment before being approved to care for children, and that the license must be maintained to keep operating legally. The distinction between a licensed center and a licensed family child care home is a matter of setting and scale, not of licensing rigor — both categories go through CCLD's process.

For Monrovia families, the practical takeaway is that the provider pool is genuinely mixed rather than dominated by one model, so it's worth comparing both centers and homes rather than assuming one type is more available. With 20 of 21 providers covering preschool age, that stage is well served; families needing infant, toddler, or school-age care specifically should narrow their search using CloverMap's listing details rather than the city's overall provider count, since roughly half of Monrovia's roster serves those age bands.