Licensed Daycares in Fremont, OH

Daycare & Childcare in Fremont

As of July 2026

Ohio's licensing data puts Fremont's provider count at 32, where homes outnumber centers: 21 homes to 10 centers. Of those, 7 carry a Google rating, averaging 4.1 stars, and 4 are rated 4.5 stars or higher. Under Ohio's Step Up To Quality system, 14 Fremont providers hold a Gold, Silver, or Bronze rating — 6 Gold, 0 Silver, and 8 Bronze. CloverMap lists Fremont's full roster, including verified providers like Angie's Angels, for parents comparing options before reaching out.

What to know about childcare in Fremont

Fremont's 32 providers lean toward home-based care, with 21 homes against 10 centers — about 66% homes and 31% centers. That's a clear reversal of the center-heavy pattern seen in several comparable Ohio cities, meaning a Fremont family's search is more likely to start among home-based providers than center-based ones, a pattern also seen in Youngstown and Lorain among this group of cities.

Under Ohio's Step Up To Quality program, 14 of Fremont's 32 providers — 44% — hold a medal, split as 6 Gold, 0 Silver, and 8 Bronze — Bronze-leaning, with no Silver-rated providers currently on the roster. Google ratings cover a smaller slice: 7 providers, averaging 4.1 stars, with 4 rated 4.5 stars or higher.

Fremont's providers are licensed through Ohio's Department of Children and Youth (DCY), which sets the baseline staffing, health and safety, and operational standards for both centers and family child care homes statewide. Step Up To Quality is the voluntary review layered on top of that license, and in Fremont, Bronze is the most common medal among the providers that have gone through it, ahead of Gold and with no Silver-rated providers at all.

Because Fremont has zero Silver-rated providers, a parent comparing two medaled options here is always choosing between Gold and Bronze — Silver simply isn't part of the local medal landscape at this point, unlike in cities where all three tiers appear.

For a Fremont parent, the home-heavy mix (21 of 32 providers) is the natural starting point, with 10 centers as an alternative for families who want a larger facility. Given that under half the roster carries a Step Up To Quality medal and even fewer have a Google rating, a Fremont search benefits from direct outreach to confirm current openings and specifics, since the two rating systems combined still leave a meaningful share of the 32 providers unassessed by either measure.

Fremont's zero-Silver pattern is unusual among Ohio cities, and it means a Fremont parent shouldn't expect to encounter that particular tier locally, regardless of how many providers on a shortlist carry a medal at all. That combination of a smaller roster, limited rating coverage, and a home-heavy mix makes Fremont a market where a parent's own direct comparison of providers carries relatively more weight than in cities with denser review coverage. With only 4 of Fremont's providers rated 4.5 stars or higher on Google, that pool is small enough that a parent should treat it as a helpful data point rather than a complete picture of local quality.