Licensed Toddler Care in Laurelton, NY

Toddler Care in Laurelton

As of August 2026

Laurelton's child care roster includes 21 providers, all of them centers, according to OCFS licensing data. Combined licensed capacity is 516 children across the 21 providers reporting a figure, averaging about 25 per site, and the roster is concentrated entirely in school-age care, with all 21 providers serving that age group. One provider carries a QUALITYstarsNY rating. CloverMap lists Laurelton's full roster, including Laurelton Day Care School Age Program, in one place.

What to know about childcare in Laurelton

Every one of Laurelton's 21 listed providers is a center — New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) records show 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 a Laurelton comparison is really about which center's program, schedule, and daily structure fit a family's needs best, rather than a choice between a center and a home-based option.

Licensed capacity across the 21 reporting providers totals 516 children, for an average of about 25 per site — a moderate figure for this cohort. Combined with a roster that leans entirely toward one age group, that capacity is concentrated where the demand clearly is: school-age programming.

Laurelton's roster is entirely weighted toward school-age care: all 21 providers serve school-age children, and the data shows no dedicated infant, toddler, or preschool capacity reported in the city. That's an important pattern to plan around — families with younger children should expect to search beyond Laurelton itself, while those needing before- or after-school care will find the deepest bench in this cohort.

Every provider on this list is licensed or registered through OCFS, the state agency that sets and enforces child care standards across New York. A license confirms a program has met the state's baseline requirements for staffing, group size, and health and safety practices before enrolling children — a floor, not a ranking, so schedule and program philosophy still merit a direct look.

One Laurelton provider carries a QUALITYstarsNY rating, New York's voluntary quality-improvement program, giving families one data point beyond licensing status in a roster that otherwise reads fairly uniformly.

Given how completely Laurelton's roster skews toward school-age programming, families with infants, toddlers, or preschoolers should treat a search here as a starting point rather than a destination, while CloverMap's listings make clear exactly which providers, like Laurelton Day Care School Age Program, serve the age range you need. For families set on Laurelton, the practical next step is checking each of the twenty-one providers' hours and program structure directly, since the roster's uniform age focus means the real differences lie in schedule and daily program design rather than in what age group they serve.