Licensed Daycares in Cadillac, MI

Daycare & Childcare in Cadillac

As of August 2026

Cadillac's 28 licensed providers make for a sizable local roster: 19 centers and 9 family child care homes, tracked by Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB). Licensed capacity totals 790 children across the group, averaging 28 per site. Options include NMCAA Preschool - Cadillac Marty Paul alongside the rest of the roster, spanning both center-based and home-based settings. CloverMap brings Cadillac's providers together in one searchable, verified directory.

What to know about childcare in Cadillac

Centers make up the larger share of Cadillac's child care roster, at 68 percent of the 28 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. NMCAA Preschool - Cadillac Marty Paul is one of the 28 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, Cadillac's 28 providers report licensed capacity for 790 children, an average of 28 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 Cadillac.

Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) oversees both provider types that make up Cadillac'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 Cadillac, with 28 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 Cadillac — 19 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 28-provider roster still includes both, so the option exists locally even where it isn't the majority choice.

For families in Cadillac, the value of a full roster — 28 providers, 19 centers and 9 homes — is being able to compare across both provider types at once rather than searching them separately. CloverMap organizes Cadillac'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.