Licensed Before & After School in Marquette, MI

Before & After School in Marquette

As of August 2026

Centers make up 59 percent of Marquette's 27 child care providers, with family child care homes accounting for the remaining 41 percent, per Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) licensing data. The group's combined licensed capacity is 1362 children, an average of 50 per provider. Mister McGregor's Garden operates among them, one name within a 27-provider roster spanning both settings. CloverMap consolidates Marquette's roster into a single, verified place to search.

What to know about childcare in Marquette

Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) licensing data lists 27 child care providers in Marquette: 16 centers and 11 family child care homes, or roughly 59 percent center-based and 41 percent home-based. Mister McGregor's Garden 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 Marquette's roster side by side, which is how CCLB tracks child care across Michigan rather than treating the two as separate systems.

Marquette's providers report 1362 children in combined licensed capacity, working out to 50 per provider on average across the 27 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 Marquette's 50 reflects the underlying 59/41 mix as much as it reflects any individual site.

Every provider counted in Marquette's 27-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 Marquette — 16 to 11 — 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 11 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.

Marquette's CCLB-tracked total of 27 providers, split 59 percent centers and 41 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 Marquette. 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.