Licensed Before & After School in Staten Island, NY

Before & After School in Staten Island

As of August 2026

Staten Island's child care directory on CloverMap is the smallest of the five boroughs by provider count, with 424 total licensed and registered providers. The split leans slightly toward home-based care: 184 home-based programs and 72 school-age programs are registered with New York State, alongside 168 center-based programs permitted by the city health department. Among the 118 providers with a Google rating, the average is 4.2 stars, with 53 rated 4.5 stars or higher. Thirty-three providers hold QUALITYstarsNY ratings as well.

What to know about childcare in Staten Island

As the smallest of the five boroughs in total provider count, Staten Island's child care directory still reflects the same two-regulator structure found across the city. Of 424 total providers, 168 are center-based programs permitted by the NYC Health Department (DOHMH), 184 are home-based programs registered with the state Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), and 72 are OCFS-registered school-age programs. Home-based providers form the largest single group here, at just over 43 percent of the total, with centers close behind at about 40 percent.

Ratings coverage in Staten Island reaches 118 providers, roughly 28 percent of the total, with an average of 4.2 stars across that group. Fifty-three of those rated providers, close to 45 percent of everyone rated, come in at 4.5 stars or higher. As with any borough, the unrated majority shouldn't be assumed to be lower quality; they simply haven't accumulated public reviews yet.

Thirty-three Staten Island providers carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating, New York's quality rating and improvement system, which works out to roughly 28 percent of the borough's rated group also holding that additional credential. For parents, a provider that shows up with both a strong Google average and a QUALITYstarsNY rating offers two independent points of confirmation rather than just one.

Staten Island families searching CloverMap will see providers from both regulatory tracks side by side. DOHMH permits and oversees the borough's center-based programs, while OCFS licenses or registers home-based providers and school-age programs under state rules. Neither track supersedes the other - they cover different program types - and combining both into a single directory means Staten Island parents can compare across settings without switching between separate government sites.

Given how closely matched centers and homes are in Staten Island's total, deciding on a preferred setting early on is a reasonable first filter, followed by checking Google ratings and QUALITYstarsNY status within that group. RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER is among the borough's rated providers, and with a smaller overall list to work through than in other parts of the city, Staten Island parents can often review the full set of rated options rather than needing to narrow by geography alone.

Staten Island's near-even split between centers and homes also means neither category should be treated as the default choice the way it might be in a more lopsided borough. Both settings are common enough here that a search shouldn't assume one type dominates before checking the actual numbers, and both the center-based and home-based groups have enough rated providers to build a real comparison from.