Licensed Full-Day Daycare in Brighton, MI

Full-Day Daycare in Brighton

As of August 2026

In Brighton, centers outnumber family child care homes by a clear margin: 21 centers to 8 homes among the city's 29 providers in Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) licensing data. Together they report licensed space for 2426 children, averaging 84 per site. First Baptist Church Child Care is one of the providers on this list, alongside the rest of the 29-provider roster. CloverMap turns this dataset into a browsable directory so parents can compare Brighton's options directly.

What to know about childcare in Brighton

Centers make up the larger share of Brighton's child care roster, at 72 percent of the 29 providers CCLB tracks in the city. The remaining providers operate as family child care homes, giving families a second setting to consider alongside the majority option. First Baptist Church Child Care is one of the 29 names on the list. The practical difference between the two is mostly one of scale and setting — a center brings a dedicated space and multiple staff, a home brings a smaller group and a single caregiver working from their own residence.

Combined, Brighton's 29 providers report licensed capacity for 2426 children, an average of 84 per site. That figure blends larger centers and smaller family child care homes into one citywide number, so it describes overall scale rather than any single provider's size. A licensed capacity total also isn't a live vacancy count — it reflects the maximum a provider is authorized to serve, not how many openings exist on a given day. Even so, it's one of the more concrete scale indicators available in state licensing data for a city like Brighton.

Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) oversees both provider types that make up Brighton's roster, applying licensing requirements to centers and family child care homes alike. Being listed in CCLB's data confirms a provider has met the state's requirements to legally operate, but it doesn't speak to program quality, teaching approach, or day-to-day experience — those details vary by provider and are worth asking about directly. For a city like Brighton, with 29 providers on record, the licensing data is a starting point for a search, not the final word on any individual site.

With centers outnumbering family child care homes in Brighton — 21 to 8 — 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 8 homes on the list, even though they're a smaller share of the total. The 29-provider roster still includes both, so the option exists locally even where it isn't the majority choice.

For families in Brighton, the value of a full roster — 29 providers, 21 centers and 8 homes — is being able to compare across both provider types at once rather than searching them separately. CloverMap organizes Brighton's CCLB-listed providers into a single verified directory for exactly that reason. Licensing data confirms a provider is operating legally in Michigan; it's still worth a direct conversation with any provider on the list before making a final decision.