Licensed Before & After School in Syracuse, NY

Before & After School in Syracuse

As of August 2026

Syracuse's roster includes 244 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. Like Rochester, Syracuse's data spans every age group: 29 providers serve infants, 33 serve toddlers, 43 serve preschoolers, and 207 serve school-age children. Combined licensed capacity totals 6,854 children, averaging 28 per site. 25 Syracuse providers hold a QUALITYstarsNY rating. CloverMap gathers this full roster in one searchable directory for Syracuse families.

What to know about childcare in Syracuse

New York State licensing data counts 244 child care providers in Syracuse, all recorded as licensed centers, with no family child care homes appearing in this dataset. Syracuse's total sits in the middle of this batch of city profiles, smaller than the downstate boroughs but with a data profile that, like Rochester's, covers the full range of age groups rather than skewing toward one.

Syracuse providers report a combined licensed capacity of 6,854 children, averaging 28 per site, one of the smaller per-site averages in this dataset. That points to a roster built mostly from modest, single-site centers rather than large multi-classroom operations.

Syracuse's age-group data is unusually complete: 29 providers serve infants, 33 serve toddlers, 43 serve preschool-age children, and 207 serve school-age children. That full spread gives parents at every stage, from infant care through elementary years, a real starting count to work from, rather than the gaps seen in some of the larger New York City boroughs in this dataset.

Every Syracuse provider on this list is licensed by the Office of Children and Family Services, New York's statewide agency for child care regulation, covering staffing, group size, and facility standards. 25 Syracuse providers, about 10 percent of the roster, also carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating, marking them as having gone through the state's additional quality-assessment process.

Because Syracuse's roster covers every age group with real counts, parents can search by specific age need with more confidence than in cities where only school-age data is available. Graves-Wright, Cheryl is one individually run provider representative of the roster's mix of small, independently operated centers. Given the relatively even mix of ages served, comparing a handful of providers by capacity and QUALITYstarsNY status is a reasonable way to shortlist options in Syracuse.

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 Syracuse 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 Syracuse'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.