Licensed Full-Day Daycare in Clarkston, MI

Full-Day Daycare in Clarkston

As of August 2026

Clarkston's 27 child care providers split 15 centers to 12 family child care homes, a 56/44 mix in Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) data. Combined, they report licensed capacity for 1998 children — 74 per provider on average. St Trinity Lutheran Preschool is among the providers serving the city, one of 27 entries spanning both center-based and home-based settings across Clarkston. CloverMap turns that roster into a verified directory parents can browse directly instead of piecing results together from scattered sources.

What to know about childcare in Clarkston

Centers make up the larger share of Clarkston's child care roster, at 56 percent of the 27 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. St Trinity Lutheran Preschool is one of the 27 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, Clarkston's 27 providers report licensed capacity for 1998 children, an average of 74 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 Clarkston.

Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) oversees both provider types that make up Clarkston'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 Clarkston, with 27 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 Clarkston — 15 to 12 — 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 12 homes on the list, even though they're a smaller share of the total. The 27-provider roster still includes both, so the option exists locally even where it isn't the majority choice.

For families in Clarkston, the value of a full roster — 27 providers, 15 centers and 12 homes — is being able to compare across both provider types at once rather than searching them separately. CloverMap organizes Clarkston'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.