Licensed Toddler Care in Fairport, NY

Toddler Care in Fairport

As of August 2026

Fairport's 22 providers all operate as centers, per New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) licensing records, with combined capacity for 1085 children averaging about 49 per site. Age coverage runs from 4 providers serving infants through 19 serving school-age children, and 2 providers, including two YMCA of Greater Rochester locations, carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating. CloverMap brings Fairport's full roster together for parents comparing options in one place.

What to know about childcare in Fairport

Every one of Fairport's 22 listed providers is a center — OCFS licensing data shows no family or group family day care homes registered in the city. That means the entire roster shares a dedicated-facility operating model, with classroom groupings and multiple staff, rather than the smaller single-caregiver setup of a licensed home provider, so comparisons in Fairport come down to size, age focus, and rating.

Licensed capacity across the 22 reporting providers totals 1085 children, averaging roughly 49 per site — a solid mid-range figure for this cohort, pointing to a reasonable mix of program sizes rather than uniformly small or uniformly large centers. That range gives families a genuine choice between smaller, more intimate settings and larger centers with more simultaneous openings across age groups.

Age coverage is fairly even: 4 providers serve infants, 4 serve toddlers, 5 serve preschoolers, and 19 serve school-age children. With infant, toddler, and preschool counts close together, Fairport families across those age ranges should find a comparable number of options, and school-age care remains the single deepest category as it is throughout this cohort. That near-parity across the three younger bands is unusual in this batch of cities, where one age group often dominates the other two.

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, not a ranking, so program philosophy and daily schedule still merit direct comparison.

2 Fairport providers carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating, New York's voluntary quality-improvement program, including two separate YMCA of Greater Rochester locations — a useful pair of options for families who want an established, rated program.

With balanced age coverage and a rated subset that includes a recognizable community organization, Fairport is a reasonably well-documented city in this cohort; CloverMap's listings let parents filter by age group and rating together rather than contacting each of the twenty-two providers individually. That efficiency matters most in a city like Fairport where the age-group counts are close enough that a family could reasonably consider several different providers before settling on one, rather than defaulting to whichever name comes up first in a general search.