Licensed Full-Day Daycare in Gahanna, OH

Full-Day Daycare in Gahanna

As of July 2026

Gahanna's 27 licensed providers are almost entirely center-based — 24 centers against a single licensed home, with a few remaining providers of other types. Fifteen providers carry a Google rating, averaging 4.5★, with 10 of those 15 rated 4.5★ or higher. Fifteen Gahanna providers also hold a medal under Ohio's Step Up To Quality, led by 10 at the Gold level. CloverMap lists all 27 Gahanna providers together with rating and medal status shown side by side for easy comparison.

What to know about childcare in Gahanna

Gahanna's roster of 27 providers is dominated by centers: 24 of them, against a single licensed home, with the remainder split among other provider types. That's one of the most center-heavy splits among comparable Ohio cities, meaning a family specifically looking for a home-based option in Gahanna will find almost nothing to choose from locally and may need to look at neighboring cities. Practically, that means a Gahanna search is really a search among centers, and the differentiators end up being medal tier, rating, and location rather than a choice of format.

Gahanna shows strong numbers on both public and state-verified quality measures. Fifteen of its 27 providers carry a Google rating averaging 4.5★, and 10 of those 15 sit at 4.5★ or higher — a solid concentration near the top of the scale. Separately, 15 Gahanna providers also hold a Step Up To Quality medal, and the mix leans toward the top tier: 10 Gold and 5 Bronze, with no Silver medals recorded. Having both the medaled group and the rated group each cover more than half the roster is a stronger showing than most comparable Ohio cities, giving Gahanna one of the more reliably documented rosters among Ohio cities of similar size.

All 27 Gahanna providers are licensed through Ohio's Department of Children and Youth (DCY), which sets the staffing, health and safety, and facility standards that both centers and licensed homes must meet before opening. Step Up To Quality operates as a voluntary program on top of that baseline license, evaluating participating providers further and awarding Bronze, Silver, or Gold — Gahanna's 10 Gold medals suggest a meaningful share of local providers have gone through that full review process and cleared its highest bar. The absence of Silver medals on this roster, alongside a strong Gold count, suggests Gahanna's medaled providers tend to land at one end of the scale rather than the middle.

For a Gahanna parent, the overlap between strong Google ratings and a heavy Gold-medal presence gives an unusually clear starting signal — ENCHANTED CARE LEARNING CENTER is one example among Gahanna's center-based providers. Because homes are nearly absent from the local roster, the practical search here comes down to comparing centers directly on medal tier, rating, and which ages each one currently has openings for, since format itself isn't much of a decision point in Gahanna the way it is elsewhere among comparable Ohio cities. Anyone who does want a home-based setting specifically will likely need to widen the search to a neighboring city given how thin that option is here.