Licensed Half-Day Programs in Belleville, MI

Half-Day Programs in Belleville

As of August 2026

Belleville's child care roster, tracked by Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB), lists 25 providers: 16 centers and 9 family child care homes, a 64/36 split. Love Learn & Laughter Montessori CCC is among the center-based options serving the city. Combined licensed capacity across these providers totals 1354, averaging 54 children per site. That split between larger, staffed centers and smaller, home-based settings is the first thing worth knowing before comparing specific providers. CloverMap lets parents browse Belleville's full, verified provider list in one place.

What to know about childcare in Belleville

Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) licensing data lists 25 child care providers in Belleville: 16 centers and 9 family child care homes, or roughly 64 percent center-based and 36 percent home-based. Love Learn & Laughter Montessori CCC is among the providers serving the city. Centers typically operate out of a dedicated facility with multiple staff members and structured group sizes, while family child care homes run out of a provider's residence with a smaller, more intimate group and a single primary caregiver. Both provider types appear on Belleville's roster side by side, which is how CCLB tracks child care across Michigan rather than treating the two as separate systems.

Belleville's providers report 1354 children in combined licensed capacity, working out to 54 per provider on average across the 25 sites. Capacity figures like this help frame how large a city's child care sector is in aggregate, though they say nothing about current openings — that's a question only a direct call to a specific provider can answer. Because centers and family child care homes differ so much in typical size, a citywide average like Belleville's 54 reflects the underlying 64/36 mix as much as it reflects any individual site.

Every provider counted in Belleville's 25-provider total is licensed through Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB), the agency responsible for regulating both centers and family child care homes statewide. A CCLB license doesn't rank providers against each other or describe what a typical day looks like at a given site — it confirms the provider cleared the state's baseline requirements to legally operate. Families still need to reach out directly to learn about openings, hours, and program details before making a decision.

With centers outnumbering family child care homes in Belleville — 16 to 9 — most searches here will surface center-based options more often than homes. That's worth knowing going in: a family specifically interested in a smaller, home-based setting will need to look a bit harder among the 9 homes on the list, even though they're a smaller share of the total. The 25-provider roster still includes both, so the option exists locally even where it isn't the majority choice.

Belleville's CCLB-tracked total of 25 providers, split 64 percent centers and 36 percent homes, gives families a full picture to start from rather than a handful of names picked up by word of mouth. CloverMap compiles this entire roster — centers and family child care homes together — into one searchable, verified directory for Belleville. Contacting a provider directly before enrolling remains the best way to confirm current openings, hours, and program details, since none of that changes how a licensing dataset like this one is organized.