Licensed Before & After School in New Rochelle, NY

Before & After School in New Rochelle

As of August 2026

New Rochelle's roster includes 65 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. Age-group coverage spans every category: 6 providers serve infants, 13 serve toddlers, 15 serve preschoolers, and 49 serve school-age children. Combined licensed capacity totals 4,029 children, averaging 62 per site, among the higher averages in this dataset. 4 New Rochelle providers hold a QUALITYstarsNY rating. CloverMap gathers this full roster for New Rochelle families to search.

What to know about childcare in New Rochelle

New York State licensing data counts 65 child care providers in New Rochelle, all recorded as licensed centers, with no family child care homes in this dataset. New Rochelle's roster is small in total count but, like Poughkeepsie's, reports meaningful coverage across every age group rather than concentrating almost entirely in school-age care.

New Rochelle providers report a combined licensed capacity of 4,029 children, averaging 62 per site, one of the higher per-site averages in this batch. That suggests New Rochelle's centers, while relatively few, tend to run larger than many of the smaller Long Island and Queens cities in this dataset.

The data shows 6 New Rochelle providers serving infants, 13 serving toddlers, 15 serving preschool-age children, and 49 serving school-age children. Preschool and toddler counts here run notably close to one another, giving parents at those stages a reasonably sized set of options alongside the larger school-age total.

Every New Rochelle 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 New Rochelle providers, about 6 percent of the roster, also carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating.

Because New Rochelle's roster covers every age group alongside a relatively high average capacity, parents can approach a search here by first narrowing on age need, then comparing a handful of larger centers directly. Westcop Childrens Center For Learning is one provider in the roster representative of New Rochelle's mix of independently run centers. Checking QUALITYstarsNY status across this balanced roster is a reasonable next step once a shortlist is narrowed by age group.

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 New Rochelle parents can narrow a search meaningfully by age: infant care generally covers children under about age 2, toddler and preschool programs cover roughly ages 2 through 5, and school-age or after-school programs serve children from about 5 to 12. Because New Rochelle's roster reports real counts in every one of those bands, a family can start from the age category that matches their child rather than filtering through the full list. CloverMap's filters let parents sort this roster by age group, licensed capacity, or QUALITYstarsNY status to speed up that comparison.