Licensed Full-Day Daycare in Caledonia, MI

Full-Day Daycare in Caledonia

As of August 2026

Caledonia's child care roster, tracked by Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB), lists 29 providers: 19 centers and 10 family child care homes, a 66/34 split. YMCA School Age at Paris Ridge Ele. is among the center-based options serving the city. Combined licensed capacity across these providers totals 1818, averaging 63 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 Caledonia's full, verified provider list in one place.

What to know about childcare in Caledonia

Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) licensing data lists 29 child care providers in Caledonia: 19 centers and 10 family child care homes, or roughly 66 percent center-based and 34 percent home-based. YMCA School Age at Paris Ridge Ele. 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 Caledonia's roster side by side, which is how CCLB tracks child care across Michigan rather than treating the two as separate systems.

Caledonia's providers report 1818 children in combined licensed capacity, working out to 63 per provider on average across the 29 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 Caledonia's 63 reflects the underlying 66/34 mix as much as it reflects any individual site.

Every provider counted in Caledonia's 29-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 Caledonia — 19 to 10 — 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 10 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.

Caledonia's CCLB-tracked total of 29 providers, split 66 percent centers and 34 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 Caledonia. 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.