Licensed Before & After School in Utica, NY

Before & After School in Utica

As of August 2026

Utica's roster includes 61 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. Age-group coverage spans every category: 4 providers serve infants, 9 serve toddlers, 15 serve preschoolers, and 51 serve school-age children. Combined licensed capacity totals 1,974 children, averaging 32 per site. 8 Utica providers hold a QUALITYstarsNY rating, one of the stronger participation rates in this dataset. CloverMap gathers this full roster for Utica families to search.

What to know about childcare in Utica

New York State licensing data counts 61 child care providers in Utica, the smallest total in this batch, all recorded as licensed centers with no family child care homes appearing in the roster. Despite its size, Utica reports coverage across every age group, a pattern shared with upstate peers like Rochester, Syracuse, and Schenectady in this dataset.

Utica providers report a combined licensed capacity of 1,974 children, averaging 32 per site, a modest figure consistent with a roster built from smaller, single-site centers.

The data shows 4 Utica providers serving infants, 9 serving toddlers, 15 serving preschool-age children, and 51 serving school-age children. Preschool coverage is proportionally strong here relative to the city's overall size, and every age category carries a real, usable count.

Every Utica provider on this list is licensed through the Office of Children and Family Services, New York's statewide child care regulator, which sets baseline requirements for staffing, group size, and facility conditions. Utica reports one of the stronger QUALITYstarsNY participation rates in this batch: 8 providers, about 13 percent of the roster, carry the rating.

Given Utica's small total count and full age-group coverage, parents can realistically compare most of the roster directly while still filtering meaningfully by a child's specific age. Thea Bowman House, INC. is one provider in the roster representative of Utica's mix of independently run centers. With QUALITYstarsNY participation running comparatively high in Utica, that rating is a useful signal for narrowing a shortlist in this city.

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 Utica 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 Utica'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.