Licensed Preschool in Queens Village, NY

Preschool in Queens Village

As of August 2026

New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) licensing records list 36 child care providers in Queens Village, all classified as centers, with no family child care homes on the roster. Nearly all of them, 35 providers, serve school-age children. Licensed capacity across the group totals 1,252 children, averaging 35 per site. None of Queens Village's providers are recorded as family child care homes, so every comparison here is between one center and another. CloverMap gives Queens Village parents a way to browse the full verified roster of providers.

What to know about childcare in Queens Village

Queens Village's roster in New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) licensing data lists 36 providers, all of them licensed centers. No family child care homes appear on the local roster. That distinction matters for parents comparing options: a center operates from a dedicated facility with multiple staff members and defined classrooms, while a family child care home is run out of a caregiver's residence for a smaller group of children. One provider on Queens Village's list, Little Libby's Munchkins, illustrates the smaller-scale operators that sit alongside larger center programs on this center-only roster. Because no home-based option appears in the data here, families drawn to a smaller, home-style setting will not find one reflected in this particular roster, even though centers themselves vary widely in size and structure.

Across the 36 providers, licensed capacity totals 1,252 children, an average of 35 per site. That average sits toward the lower end for a center-only roster of this size, suggesting Queens Village's centers tend to run smaller and more numerous rather than concentrated in a handful of large facilities. Capacity numbers describe the ceiling a provider is licensed for, not current enrollment, so a smaller average capacity does not necessarily mean fewer openings at any given time. The capacity figure is set during the licensing process and reflects the physical space, staffing plan, and safety requirements a provider has demonstrated it can meet, not a target enrollment the state expects it to reach.

Almost the entire roster, 35 of 36 providers, is recorded as serving school-age children, with no providers logged for infants, toddlers, or preschoolers in this dataset. Parents searching for infant or toddler care in Queens Village should treat this as a reflection of the roster this profile draws from rather than proof that no such care exists locally; within this data, though, the roster is overwhelmingly geared toward school-age and before-and-after-school programming.

Every provider on this list is licensed through OCFS, the state agency that regulates child care across New York. An OCFS license confirms a provider has met the state's baseline standards for staff qualifications, group sizes, and facility safety before opening its doors. That license is the floor for legal operation, not a quality ranking in itself, which is why parents often look beyond licensing status alone when narrowing down a shortlist. Renewing an OCFS license typically requires a provider to demonstrate continued compliance with staffing, safety, and facility standards, which is part of why licensing status is worth confirming as current before a family relies on it.

For Queens Village families, the practical search strategy follows from the data: because every option is a center rather than a home-based provider, and because the roster skews so heavily toward school-age care, parents of younger children may need to widen their search radius, while parents of school-age kids have 36 center-based options to compare on hours, capacity, and location. Beyond the numbers in this profile, families should still plan to visit in person, ask about current openings, and confirm staff-to-child ratios directly with each program, since a roster like this one captures a snapshot rather than real-time availability.