Licensed Toddler Care in Upland, CA

Toddler Care in Upland

As of August 2026

26 providers make up Upland's licensed child care landscape, according to California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), with 20 operating as centers and 6 as family child care homes. Centers outnumber homes here, 77% to 23%, giving Upland a program-heavy footprint with roughly 1466 total licensed slots across the roster and an average of about 56 slots per provider. Preschool coverage is the widest age band on the roster, at 73% of providers. CloverMap lets parents browse the full, verified list of Upland providers directly.

What to know about childcare in Upland

Of the 26 providers on Upland's roster, 20 are centers and 6 are family child care homes, a 77%/23% split. A center generally has multiple staff, dedicated classroom space, and set hours across the week, while a family child care home operates inside a caregiver's house with a smaller group and often more flexible scheduling. Both formats appear in Upland in meaningful numbers, so the choice tends to come down to group size and setting rather than availability alone — a family that prefers a home-like environment has real options here, and so does a family that wants a larger, more structured program.

Combined, Upland's providers report licensed capacity for about 1466 children citywide, an average of roughly 56 enrolled slots per provider. That average sits well above 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 Upland's 26 providers, 19 (73%) list preschool coverage, 10 (38%) serve school-age children, and infant and toddler care is offered by 9 and 9 providers respectively (35% and 35%). 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 Upland'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 Upland'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.

Because centers make up 77% of Upland's roster, most searches here will start with center-based programs — larger, staffed operations with set enrollment periods. Parents who specifically want a smaller, home-based setting still have 6 family child care homes to consider, a smaller slice of the market worth asking about directly since it's less visible by sheer numbers than the center-heavy majority. One provider on Upland's roster, "FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PRESCHOOL", 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 Upland 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 26 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 Upland one by one.