Licensed Full-Day Daycare in South Lyon, MI

Full-Day Daycare in South Lyon

As of August 2026

South Lyon's 23 licensed providers make for a modest local roster: 17 centers and 6 family child care homes, tracked by Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB). Licensed capacity totals 1756 children across the group, averaging 76 per site. Options include Brummer Kids Club alongside the rest of the roster, spanning both center-based and home-based settings. CloverMap brings South Lyon's providers together in one searchable, verified directory.

What to know about childcare in South Lyon

Centers make up the larger share of South Lyon's child care roster, at 74 percent of the 23 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. Brummer Kids Club is one of the 23 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, South Lyon's 23 providers report licensed capacity for 1756 children, an average of 76 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 South Lyon.

Michigan's Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) oversees both provider types that make up South Lyon'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 South Lyon, with 23 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 South Lyon — 17 to 6 — 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 6 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.

For families in South Lyon, the value of a full roster — 23 providers, 17 centers and 6 homes — is being able to compare across both provider types at once rather than searching them separately. CloverMap organizes South Lyon'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.