Licensed Infant Care in Morgan Hill, CA

Infant Care in Morgan Hill

As of August 2026

With 38 licensed providers on the California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) roster, Morgan Hill offers a center-heavy range of child care options: 29 centers and 9 family child care homes. Combined licensed capacity across these providers reaches 1,680 spots, averaging about 44 per provider. Age-group coverage skews toward preschool and school-age. CloverMap lists the full, verified set of Morgan Hill providers for parents comparing programs.

What to know about childcare in Morgan Hill

Morgan Hill's 38 licensed child care providers lean strongly toward centers, with 29 centers against 9 family child care homes, or about 76 percent centers to 24 percent homes. That mix means most of a parent's search results here will be center-based programs, with family child care homes representing a smaller share of the local roster.

Reported licensed capacity across Morgan Hill's 38 providers totals 1,680 children, an average of about 44 spots per provider, a relatively high figure consistent with how center-dominated the roster is. Centers generally license more capacity per site than a single family child care home, which pushes the citywide average upward in a city shaped like this one.

Age-group coverage in Morgan Hill is led by preschool, with 26 of the 38 providers, or 68 percent, serving that age group. Infant and toddler care is each reported by 14 providers, about 37 percent of the total, and school-age care is also reported by 14 providers, the same 37 percent. Infant, toddler, and school-age coverage are all reported by a similar, more modest share of providers compared with preschool.

All of Morgan Hill's providers, including centers such as ABC LEARNING MONTESSORI, LLC, are licensed by CCLD, the California Department of Social Services division that regulates child care statewide. A CCLD license means a provider has met the state's requirements for staffing, group sizes, and program operations, a standard applied the same way to centers and family child care homes alike.

Because infant, toddler, and school-age coverage each sit at roughly a third of Morgan Hill's roster, families with needs outside the preschool range should expect a narrower field of realistic options and may want to start their search earlier than they would for a three- or four-year-old.

Parents specifically interested in a family child care home in Morgan Hill have 9 options to consider against 29 centers, a smaller field that is worth contacting directly and early, since smaller programs can have less visible availability through a general search than larger, established centers do.

Families weighing Morgan Hill's center-heavy mix against a more balanced nearby city should also consider that centers here average more capacity per site, which can mean more classroom options and staff on hand, but a family child care home may still be worth exploring for a younger child who might do better in a smaller group setting. That trade-off is worth weighing directly rather than assuming one setting is automatically better for every family.