Licensed Preschool in East Elmhurst, NY

Preschool in East Elmhurst

As of August 2026

East Elmhurst's roster includes 71 child care providers in New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) licensing data, all licensed centers with no family child care homes recorded. School-age programming accounts for nearly the entire roster, with 69 providers serving that age group. Combined licensed capacity totals 2,122 children, averaging 30 per site. 4 East Elmhurst providers hold a QUALITYstarsNY rating. CloverMap gathers this full roster for East Elmhurst families to search.

What to know about childcare in East Elmhurst

New York State licensing data counts 71 child care providers in East Elmhurst, all recorded as licensed centers, with no family child care homes appearing in this dataset. East Elmhurst's roster is among the smaller ones in this batch, similar in scale to Corona nearby.

East Elmhurst providers report a combined licensed capacity of 2,122 children, averaging 30 per site, in line with the Bronx's and Rochester's averages elsewhere in this dataset. That points to a roster of moderately sized, mostly single-site centers.

The data records 69 East Elmhurst providers serving school-age children, with no entries logged for infant, toddler, or preschool care. As with other cities in this batch where those categories are absent, that reflects the scope of this particular dataset; families with younger children should confirm current program offerings directly with providers.

Every East Elmhurst provider on this list is licensed through the Office of Children and Family Services, New York's statewide child care regulator, which sets baseline requirements for staffing, group size, and facility conditions. 4 East Elmhurst providers, about 6 percent of the roster, also carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating.

Given the roster's concentration in school-age care, East Elmhurst is most directly useful for parents seeking elementary-age or after-school coverage. LITTLE SUNRISE DAY CARE LLC is one provider in the roster representative of East Elmhurst's mix of independently run centers. Comparing licensed capacity and QUALITYstarsNY status across this compact set of providers is a manageable way to build a shortlist in East Elmhurst.

An OCFS license is issued once a provider demonstrates it meets New York's baseline requirements for staff-to-child ratios, group sizes appropriate to each age band, staff qualifications, and physical space standards. That license is a floor rather than a ceiling: it confirms a provider has cleared the state's minimum bar for operating legally, and families are still well served by asking providers directly about curriculum, daily schedule, and communication practices before enrolling. In practice, that means East Elmhurst's roster in this dataset speaks most directly to families whose need falls in the school-age band, roughly ages 5 through 12, since that is where every provider's reported coverage is concentrated. Parents seeking infant care (generally under about age 2) or preschool care (roughly ages 2 through 5) should treat the absence of those categories here as a gap in this particular roster and confirm current offerings directly with individual East Elmhurst providers. CloverMap's filters still let parents sort this roster by licensed capacity or QUALITYstarsNY status.