Licensed Full-Day Daycare in Baldwinsville, NY

Full-Day Daycare in Baldwinsville

As of August 2026

Baldwinsville is served by 22 licensed and registered providers, every one a center, per New York's Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) records. Combined licensed capacity is 849 children across the 22 providers reporting a figure, averaging about 39 per site, with coverage across infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. CloverMap organizes Baldwinsville's full roster, including Tender Hearts Inc., for families comparing options in one place.

What to know about childcare in Baldwinsville

All 22 of Baldwinsville's listed providers operate as centers; OCFS licensing data shows no family or group family day care homes registered in the city. That means every option a parent finds here is a dedicated facility with classroom-based programming, staffed by multiple caregivers, rather than a smaller in-home arrangement — a consistent format across the roster that keeps the comparison focused on size and age focus rather than center-versus-home.

Licensed capacity across the 22 reporting providers totals 849 children, for an average of about 39 per site — a middle-of-the-road figure for this cohort that points to a mix of small and mid-sized programs rather than one dominant model, giving families a genuine range of program sizes to choose from, whether the priority is a smaller, more intimate setting or a larger multi-classroom program.

Age coverage spans all four bands: 3 providers serve infants, 3 serve toddlers, 6 serve preschoolers, and 19 serve school-age children. School-age care is the deepest slice, as in most of this cohort, but the presence of real infant and toddler numbers means younger children have genuine options in Baldwinsville rather than facing a citywide gap the way some smaller neighboring cities do.

Every provider on this roster is licensed or registered through OCFS, the agency responsible for setting and enforcing New York's child care standards. A license means a program has met the state's baseline requirements for staffing ratios, group size, and health and safety practices before enrolling children — a floor all providers here have cleared, not a substitute for comparing schedules, program style, and daily routine directly with each provider before enrolling.

Baldwinsville's licensing data does not currently show a public QUALITYstarsNY rating for any provider in the city, so families here will need to lean on program type, age-group fit, and direct conversations with providers such as Tender Hearts Inc. and the rest of the roster rather than a rating shortcut, and to weigh reported capacity alongside age-group fit when comparing two similarly sized programs.

With every age band represented and a genuine mix of program sizes, Baldwinsville families have real flexibility in how they narrow their search; CloverMap's listings make the full twenty-two-provider roster visible with capacity and age-group detail attached to each entry, rather than requiring a separate call to each of the twenty-two providers just to learn which ages they serve.