Licensed Toddler Care in Springfield Gardens, NY

Toddler Care in Springfield Gardens

As of August 2026

Springfield Gardens' 38 licensed child care providers are, without exception, centers -- New York State Office of Children and Family Services records show no family child care homes in this Queens area. Combined licensed capacity reaches 1,637 children, an average of 43 per site. School-age programming accounts for 37 of the 38 providers, the dominant category in this city's roster. CloverMap lets Springfield Gardens families browse this complete, verified list of providers to compare before choosing a program.

What to know about childcare in Springfield Gardens

New York State Office of Children and Family Services licensing data lists 38 child care providers in Springfield Gardens, and every one is classified as a center. No family child care homes appear on the roster, so families searching this data will be comparing facility-based programs exclusively. In practical terms, that means a parent's search in this city will involve comparing similarly structured facility-based programs against each other, rather than weighing a facility-based option against a smaller home-based one.

Springfield Gardens' 38 providers report a combined licensed capacity of 1,637 children, an average of 43 per site -- a moderately high figure among the cities in this batch. That scale suggests centers here run somewhat larger than the cohort's smallest averages, potentially reflecting multi-classroom sites. That capacity is best read as a site-wide ceiling rather than a single classroom size, since most centers of this scale operate more than one age-based group at once.

Springfield Gardens' age-group data is concentrated almost entirely at the school-age level, with 37 of the 38 providers recorded serving that group. The dataset shows no meaningful infant, toddler, or preschool coverage for this city, so a family with a younger child will likely need to search beyond Springfield Gardens' own roster.

Every Springfield Gardens provider is licensed through the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, the state agency responsible for regulating child care statewide. An OCFS license means a provider has met the state's baseline standards for staffing ratios, group sizes, and facility conditions before being permitted to operate. That baseline requirement applies uniformly across every provider on this roster, regardless of size.

A Springfield Gardens parent should expect a roster built almost entirely around school-age care, with providers like SOFT VOICES DAY CARE INC. representing the kind of center-based operators found here. Families with infants, toddlers, or preschoolers should plan to widen their search beyond this area, since none of the recorded providers here serve those age groups.

None of the figures in this profile indicate whether a specific center has an opening today; they describe licensed capacity and program structure as reported to the state. A Springfield Gardens parent should treat this roster as a shortlist-building tool, then contact individual centers directly to confirm current availability, hours, and whether a program's age groupings fit before enrolling.