Licensed Daycares in Yonkers, NY

Daycare & Childcare in Yonkers

As of August 2026

Yonkers reports 243 child care providers in New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) licensing data, every one a licensed center with no family child care homes in the roster. The city's age-group data covers the full spectrum: 8 providers serve infants, 10 serve toddlers, 12 serve preschoolers, and 231 serve school-age children. Combined licensed capacity reaches 8,048 children, an average of 33 per site. 16 Yonkers providers carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating. CloverMap collects this full roster for Yonkers families to search directly.

What to know about childcare in Yonkers

New York State licensing data lists 243 child care providers in Yonkers, all classified as licensed centers, with no family child care homes recorded in this dataset. Yonkers' total places it among the mid-sized cities in this batch, just below Syracuse, with a similarly complete age-group breakdown.

Yonkers providers report a combined licensed capacity of 8,048 children, averaging 33 per site. That average sits close to Syracuse's and Schenectady's, suggesting a similar mix of small-to-midsize centers rather than large campuses.

The city's age-group data spans every category: 8 providers serve infants, 10 serve toddlers, 12 serve preschool-age children, and 231 serve school-age children. While the school-age figure dominates, the presence of real counts across infant, toddler, and preschool categories gives Yonkers parents at every stage a concrete starting point.

Every Yonkers provider on this roster holds a license from the Office of Children and Family Services, New York's statewide child care regulator, which sets standards for staffing, group size, and facility conditions. 16 Yonkers providers, about 7 percent of the roster, also carry a QUALITYstarsNY rating.

Parents in Yonkers searching by age group will find workable, if modest, counts across every category, which makes age-based filtering more useful here than in cities where only school-age data is reported. Neni Day Care Inc. is one center in the roster representative of Yonkers' mix of independently run providers. Given the relatively even capacity figures citywide, comparing a shortlist of providers on QUALITYstarsNY status and reported age coverage is a practical way to narrow a Yonkers search.

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 Yonkers 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 Yonkers'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.