Licensed Infant Care in West Hills, CA

Infant Care in West Hills

As of August 2026

West Hills' licensing data shows 37 child care providers serving the city, according to California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) records, split between 20 centers and 17 family child care homes. Combined licensed capacity across the roster reaches 1,411 spots, averaging about 38 per provider. Age-group coverage runs fairly evenly across the four categories tracked. CloverMap lists the full, verified set of West Hills providers for parents comparing their options.

What to know about childcare in West Hills

West Hills' 37 licensed child care providers are close to evenly split, with a modest lean toward centers: 20 centers compared with 17 family child care homes, or about 54 percent centers to 46 percent homes. That near-balanced mix means parents here have close to an even choice between a larger center setting and a smaller, home-based one, without either type clearly dominating.

Reported licensed capacity across West Hills' 37 providers totals 1,411 children, an average of about 38 spots per provider, a middle-range figure consistent with a roster split almost evenly between centers and family child care homes rather than leaning strongly toward either type.

Age-group coverage in West Hills runs fairly evenly across all four categories. Of the 37 providers, 21 serve infants and 21 serve toddlers, each about 57 percent of the total, while 27 providers, or 73 percent, serve preschool-age children and 20 providers, about 54 percent, serve school-age children. Every age group here is covered by more than half of the roster.

All of West Hills' providers, including Montessori-affiliated programs like CASA DEI MARIA MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL, are licensed by CCLD, the division of the California Department of Social Services responsible for regulating child care statewide. A CCLD license means a provider has met the state's requirements for staffing, group sizes, and program operations, applied equally to centers and family child care homes.

Because every age group in West Hills is covered by a majority of providers, families here are less likely to encounter a sharply narrow field for any particular age range, a more consistent picture than in cities where one or two categories are covered by only a third of the roster.

With centers and family child care homes represented in close to equal numbers, West Hills parents can reasonably prioritize program fit and location over provider type alone, since neither centers nor homes are so scarce here that one option would need to be ruled out by default from the outset of a search.

Families relocating to West Hills or planning for more than one child across different ages may find the consistent coverage here especially useful, since a provider serving an infant is reasonably likely to also serve that child through toddler, preschool, and even school-age years without requiring a switch to a different program elsewhere in the city as that same child grows and develops through each successive stage of early childhood care.