Licensed Daycares in Mount Vernon, NY

Daycare & Childcare in Mount Vernon

As of August 2026

Of Mount Vernon's 59 licensed child care providers, 6 carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating, a quality-rating share worth noting for parents comparing options. Every provider in the New York State Office of Children and Family Services roster for Mount Vernon operates as a center rather than a family child care home, with combined licensed capacity of 1,367 children across an average of 23 per site. School-age programming leads the mix at 54 providers, though 2 serve infants, 5 toddlers, and 6 preschoolers. CloverMap gives Mount Vernon families a way to browse this full roster of verified listings.

What to know about childcare in Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon's child care roster, as recorded by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, lists 59 licensed providers. All 59 are classified as centers; none are recorded as family child care homes in this dataset. For parents, that distinction matters: a center typically operates out of a dedicated facility with multiple staff members and separate classrooms organized by age group, while a home-based provider cares for a smaller group inside a caregiver's residence. A city where every listed provider is a center suggests families searching in Mount Vernon should expect facility-style programs rather than in-home settings, at least among the providers captured in this licensing roster.

Combined, Mount Vernon's 59 providers report a licensed capacity of 1,367 children, which works out to an average of 23 children per site. That mid-range average points to a roster of modestly sized centers rather than a handful of very large campuses. Licensed capacity is a ceiling set by the state, not a guarantee of open seats, so parents should treat the figure as a planning reference rather than a real-time availability count.

Age-group coverage in Mount Vernon's data skews heavily toward school-age care: 54 of the 59 providers are recorded as serving school-age children. Younger age groups appear in smaller numbers -- 6 providers serve preschoolers, 5 serve toddlers, and 2 serve infants. That pattern suggests a parent searching for before- and after-school care in Mount Vernon has more options to sort through than a parent searching specifically for infant care, where the roster is thinner.

Every provider on this list is licensed through the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, the agency responsible for regulating child care statewide. An OCFS license means a provider has met the state's baseline requirements for staffing ratios, group sizes, and facility conditions. Beyond that baseline, 6 of Mount Vernon's providers -- about 10 percent of the roster -- hold a QUALITYstarsNY rating, the state's voluntary quality-rating and improvement system that evaluates programs on additional measures beyond basic licensing.

For a Mount Vernon parent, the practical starting point is the school-age concentration: providers like The Caring Tree Child Care LLc. sit within a roster where the majority of programs serve school-age children, so families with younger children may need to filter more carefully to find infant or toddler openings. Because every provider here is center-based, families can expect a broadly consistent structure -- group classrooms, defined hours, multiple staff -- across the roster, with the QUALITYstarsNY rating serving as one additional data point when comparing otherwise similar centers.