Licensed Daycares in Parlier, CA

Daycare & Childcare in Parlier

As of August 2026

In Parlier, 28 providers are listed with California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), 5 of them centers and 23 family child care homes, a 18%/82% split. Family child care homes lead the mix at 82%, giving Parlier a smaller-group, home-based character alongside roughly 5 licensed slots citywide and an average of about 20 slots per provider. Preschool coverage is the widest age band on the roster, at 96% of providers. CloverMap lets parents browse the full, verified list of Parlier providers directly.

What to know about childcare in Parlier

28 providers appear in Parlier's licensing roster: 5 centers and 23 family child care homes. The center format usually means a larger enrolled group split across age-based classrooms with several staff on site; the home format means a smaller, often mixed-age group inside a caregiver's residence. In Parlier, centers account for 18% of the total and homes 82%, which shapes what a typical search here looks like — and which format ends up being the more common starting point for a first inquiry.

Combined, Parlier's providers report licensed capacity for about 555 children citywide, an average of roughly 20 enrolled slots per provider. That average sits below what a single small program alone could offer, reflecting the presence of larger centers in the mix alongside smaller home-based operations. Capacity figures are one of the more concrete data points available on a roster like this, since they come directly from what each provider has reported rather than from a general estimate, and they give parents a rough sense of how competitive enrollment might be at any given time.

Of Parlier's 28 providers, 27 (96%) list preschool coverage, 23 (82%) serve school-age children, and infant and toddler care is offered by 24 and 24 providers respectively (86% and 86%). Families searching for infant care specifically will have a narrower field to work with than those searching for preschool, so it's worth confirming age-group availability early in a search rather than assuming every provider on the roster serves every age.

The agency behind Parlier's child care roster is California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), part of the California Department of Social Services. CCLD licenses centers and family child care homes as two distinct categories, each with its own operating requirements for staffing and group composition. Understanding that split helps explain why Parlier's providers are listed the way they are — as centers or as homes, not a single blended category — and it's a useful frame for reading any provider's listing, since the category itself tells a family something about scale and setting before they even reach out.

Family child care homes make up 82% of Parlier's roster, more than the 5 centers on file, so a home-based search here has more options to work through than a center-based one. Parents specifically wanting a center-based program should expect a shorter list to compare, 5 providers in total, and may want to reach out earlier given the smaller pool. One provider on Parlier's roster, "CAPSLO PARLIER MIGRANT CHILD CARE CENTER", 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 Parlier 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 28 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 Parlier one by one.