Licensed Toddler Care in Boardman, OH

Toddler Care in Boardman

As of July 2026

Boardman's 23 licensed providers split 15 centers to 8 licensed homes, giving families a genuine mix of formats to choose from rather than one dominant model. Twelve providers carry a Google rating, averaging 4.3★, with 6 of those 12 rated 4.5★ or higher. Thirteen Boardman providers — more than half the roster — hold a medal under Ohio's Step Up To Quality. CloverMap lists all 23 Boardman providers with rating and medal status attached for side-by-side comparison.

What to know about childcare in Boardman

Boardman's 23 providers split 15 centers to 8 licensed homes, with centers making up roughly two-thirds of the total and homes filling out a meaningful remainder. That mix gives Boardman families a real choice of format rather than one option crowding out the other, even though centers will show up more often in a general search simply because there are more of them. A family open to either format has more to choose from in Boardman than in several of the more center-heavy cities nearby.

Thirteen of Boardman's 23 providers hold a Step Up To Quality medal — more than half the roster — split across 6 Bronze, 1 Silver, and 6 Gold, a fairly even top-and-bottom distribution with less in the middle tier. On Google, 12 providers carry a rating averaging 4.3★, with 6 of those 12 rated 4.5★ or higher, leaving 11 providers without a public rating yet. Boardman's medaled and rated groups are both roughly half the roster, giving parents two comparably sized data sets to check against each other.

All 23 Boardman providers are licensed through Ohio's Department of Children and Youth (DCY), which requires both centers and licensed homes to meet state staffing, health and safety, and facility standards before opening. Step Up To Quality sits above that baseline license as a voluntary program, evaluating participating providers further and awarding Bronze, Silver, or Gold — a provider without a medal remains fully licensed and legally operating regardless of whether it has pursued that additional voluntary review.

For a Boardman parent, cross-referencing the medal list against the rated list is a practical way to spot any providers where both signals line up — DAVIS FAMILY YMCA is one example among Boardman's providers. With centers and homes both well represented, deciding on format early narrows the 23-provider list meaningfully before comparing medal tier and rating within whichever group fits the family's preference best.

Because Boardman's Gold and Bronze medal counts are nearly tied at 6 each, with just a single Silver medal on the roster, the local quality data again clusters toward the two ends of the Step Up To Quality scale rather than the middle — a pattern that shows up in several of these smaller Ohio cities and is worth keeping in mind when a search doesn't turn up many Silver-medaled options nearby, and it's a good reason to look at the Gold- and Bronze-tier providers with equal seriousness rather than assuming Gold is always the better-documented choice.