Licensed Toddler Care in Rochester, MI

Toddler Care in Rochester

As of August 2026

Centers make up 65 percent of Rochester's 23 child care providers, with family child care homes accounting for the remaining 35 percent, per Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) licensing data. The group's combined licensed capacity is 2919 children, an average of 127 per provider. St. Paul's Preschool operates among them, one name within a 23-provider roster spanning both settings. CloverMap consolidates Rochester's roster into a single, verified place to search.

What to know about childcare in Rochester

Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) licensing data lists 23 child care providers in Rochester: 15 centers and 8 family child care homes, or roughly 65 percent center-based and 35 percent home-based. St. Paul's Preschool 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 Rochester's roster side by side, which is how CCLB tracks child care across Michigan rather than treating the two as separate systems.

Rochester's providers report 2919 children in combined licensed capacity, working out to 127 per provider on average across the 23 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 Rochester's 127 reflects the underlying 65/35 mix as much as it reflects any individual site.

Every provider counted in Rochester's 23-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 Rochester — 15 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 23-provider roster still includes both, so the option exists locally even where it isn't the majority choice.

Rochester's CCLB-tracked total of 23 providers, split 65 percent centers and 35 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 Rochester. 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.