Licensed Before & After School in Peekskill, NY

Before & After School in Peekskill

As of August 2026

Peekskill's 23 providers all appear as centers in OCFS licensing data, with combined reported capacity of 774 children averaging about 34 per site. Coverage spans every age group, from 2 providers serving infants up through 18 serving school-age children, and 4 providers — including B'Above-Peekskill Head Start — carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating. CloverMap brings Peekskill's full roster together for families comparing options before they call, with reported capacity and rating status attached to each listing.

What to know about childcare in Peekskill

Every one of Peekskill's 23 listed providers operates as 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 model with classroom groupings and multiple staff, rather than the single-caregiver setup of a licensed home provider, simplifying the comparison to size, age focus, and rating status rather than operating format.

Licensed capacity across the 23 reporting providers totals 774 children, averaging roughly 34 per site — a middle-of-the-road figure for this cohort that suggests a mix of smaller and mid-sized programs rather than one dominant format, giving families some real choice in program scale before committing to a tour.

Age coverage is well spread: 2 providers serve infants, 4 serve toddlers, 5 serve preschoolers, and 18 serve school-age children. Every band has real representation, which means a Peekskill search is unlikely to dead-end regardless of a child's age, though school-age remains the deepest category as in most of this cohort.

Every provider on this list is licensed or registered through OCFS, the agency responsible for setting and enforcing New York's child care standards statewide. 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 all providers here have cleared, not a substitute for comparing schedules, program philosophy, and daily routine directly with each provider.

4 Peekskill providers, among them B'Above-Peekskill Head Start, carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating, New York's voluntary quality-improvement program, giving families a meaningful shortlist beyond the raw roster count. With balanced age coverage and a solid rated subset, Peekskill is a reasonably well-documented city in this cohort; CloverMap's listings let parents filter by age group and rating together in one pass.

That combination of breadth and documentation makes Peekskill a city where narrowing a search by age group first, then checking rating status, is likely to produce a workable shortlist rather than a single default choice, even for families who have not yet decided which factor matters most. Peekskill's combination of full age-band representation and a real quality-rated subset makes it one of the more thoroughly documented cities in this cohort, useful for families comparing several nearby towns at once.