Licensed Preschool in Astoria, NY

Preschool in Astoria

As of August 2026

Astoria's 58 licensed child care providers are, without exception, centers -- the New York State Office of Children and Family Services roster for this Queens city records no family child care homes. Combined licensed capacity reaches 3,122 children, an average of 54 per site, among the higher averages in this batch. School-age programming dominates, with 56 of the 58 providers serving that age group, while 2 serve preschoolers. 4 providers carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating. CloverMap lets Astoria families browse this full, verified roster.

What to know about childcare in Astoria

Astoria's licensing roster, drawn from New York State Office of Children and Family Services records, counts 58 child care providers, and every one of them is classified as a center. No family child care homes appear in the data for this city. For parents, that means Astoria's options come almost entirely in the form of facility-based programs with dedicated classroom space and multiple staff, rather than smaller home-based settings. That structure also tends to bring more standardized hours and enrollment procedures than a single-provider home setting, which can make comparison shopping more straightforward for a parent working through a list for the first time.

Combined, Astoria's providers report 3,122 children in licensed capacity, an average of 54 per site -- one of the larger per-site averages recorded in this cohort of cities. That scale suggests Astoria's centers tend to be larger operations, potentially serving several classrooms of children under one roof. As always, licensed capacity marks a ceiling set by the state rather than a live count of available openings. In practice, a center's total licensed capacity is typically divided across several age-specific classrooms rather than concentrated in one large room, so the headline figure describes the whole site rather than any single group a child would actually join.

The age-group data in Astoria skews almost entirely toward school-age care: 56 of the 58 providers serve school-age children, while only 2 are recorded serving preschoolers. The roster does not show meaningful infant or toddler coverage, which means a parent searching Astoria specifically for infant or toddler placement may find slimmer pickings than a parent looking for before- and after-school programming.

Every provider in Astoria is licensed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, the state agency that sets minimum standards for staffing, group size, and facility conditions before any child care program can operate. On top of that baseline, 4 Astoria providers hold a QUALITYstarsNY rating, the state's optional quality-rating and improvement system.

For a family searching in Astoria, the practical takeaway is that this roster is built for school-age families first: providers such as Little Angels Montessori Inc. sit within a group of large, center-based operations where school-age capacity dominates. A parent with an infant or toddler may need to widen the search beyond Astoria's immediate roster, while a family needing before- or after-school coverage has a comparatively deep pool of large centers to choose from.

A licensing roster like this one shows who is authorized to operate in Astoria, not which seats are open on a given day. A parent narrowing a shortlist here will typically want to follow up directly with a handful of centers to confirm current availability, hours, and whether a program's age groupings line up with a child's needs before making a final decision.