Licensed Toddler Care in Amityville, NY

Toddler Care in Amityville

As of August 2026

Amityville counts 30 providers in the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) licensing system, and the roster is uniformly center-based, with no family child care homes recorded. Most of the group, 29 providers, serves school-age children, with 1 also serving preschoolers. Combined licensed capacity reaches 529 children, an average of 18 per site, and 3 providers carry a QUALITYstarsNY quality rating. CloverMap lets Amityville families browse the full verified roster of providers.

What to know about childcare in Amityville

Amityville's New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) roster lists 30 providers, every one a licensed center, with no family child care homes recorded locally. Olguita day Care Inc is among the providers on this list, one of the smaller independent operators on Amityville's roster. For parents, that distinction shapes what a search should look like: comparing centers against each other means weighing group size, staff-to-child ratios, and daily schedule structure rather than choosing between a facility setting and a home-based one. That uniformity narrows one axis of the search for local parents while leaving others open, since hours of operation, program philosophy, and staff turnover still vary meaningfully from one center to the next.

Amityville's 30 providers report a combined licensed capacity of 529 children, averaging 18 per site -- among the smallest per-site averages in this batch, indicating a roster of predominantly small, single-site programs. None of this means a larger provider is automatically the better fit for every family; a lower-capacity program can offer a more consistent staff-to-child ratio and a smaller, more familiar group, which some parents prefer regardless of the raw numbers. As with any licensed capacity figure, the number describes what a provider is permitted to do under its license, not what it is doing on a given day, which is why direct outreach remains an important step in any search.

Most of Amityville's roster, 29 of 30 providers, serves school-age children, with 1 provider also serving preschoolers and none logged for infants or toddlers in this dataset.

Every Amityville provider is licensed through OCFS, the state agency responsible for regulating child care throughout New York. Beyond that base license, 3 of Amityville's 30 providers carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating, the state's voluntary quality-rating system. OCFS licensing applies the same way across the state, so a provider here operates under the same statewide rules as one anywhere else in New York, even though local market conditions, like the mix of providers, can differ considerably from place to place. Staying licensed requires a provider to keep meeting the state's staffing, safety, and facility standards on an ongoing basis, not just at the point of initial approval, which is part of what an active OCFS license signals to a parent evaluating a program.

With an average licensed capacity of just 18 children per site, Amityville's providers, including Olguita day Care Inc, tend to be smaller operations, so parents should expect a more intimate group setting than in cities with larger average capacity, and should reach out early given the more limited seats per program. Whatever the starting list looks like, confirming licensing status, current openings, and program fit directly with a provider remains the most reliable step in any child care search. Because licensing data changes over time as providers open, close, or update their registration, families should treat this profile as a starting point for research rather than a final word on current availability.