Licensed Preschool in Mason, OH

Preschool in Mason

As of July 2026

Mason's child care roster runs to 31 licensed providers, and centers dominate almost completely — 25 of them, against a single licensed home, so classroom-based care is the default option here rather than the exception. Eighteen of those 31 providers carry a Google rating, averaging 4.7★ across that rated group, and 14 come in at 4.5★ or higher. Four providers hold a medal under Ohio's Step Up To Quality. CloverMap lists all 31 Mason providers together so parents can compare ratings, medal status, and provider type before making calls.

What to know about childcare in Mason

Mason's 31 licensed providers skew heavily toward centers: 25 operate as center-based programs, compared with a single licensed home, with the remaining few providers falling into other roster categories. That's an unusually lopsided split — in most Ohio suburbs of this size, home-based care fills in gaps that centers don't cover, but in Mason the supply is concentrated almost entirely in classroom-format programs. For a parent comparing options, that means the search here is less about choosing between formats and more about comparing centers against each other on size, location, and the age groups each one actually serves.

On the ratings side, 18 of Mason's 31 providers carry a Google rating, and that group averages 4.7★ — a notably strong number, with 14 of the 18 rated providers sitting at 4.5★ or above, meaning most of the reviewed providers in Mason are clustered near the top of the scale rather than spread evenly across it. That leaves 13 providers with no public rating yet, which doesn't reflect on quality one way or the other; it simply means fewer parents have left reviews for those programs so far. Separately, four Mason providers hold a Gold, Silver, or Bronze medal under Ohio's Step Up To Quality, a state quality-rating system distinct from Google reviews. The two measures track different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable when comparing providers.

Every provider on Mason's roster is licensed through Ohio's Department of Children and Youth (DCY), which oversees both centers and licensed homes statewide. A license means the state has reviewed a provider's staffing ratios, health and safety practices, and physical space against its regulatory standards before that provider could legally open its doors. Step Up To Quality sits on top of that baseline as a voluntary program — providers that pursue it are evaluated further on measures like staff qualifications and curriculum, and awarded a Bronze, Silver, or Gold medal based on the results, but plenty of solid programs choose not to participate, so an unmedaled provider isn't automatically a lesser one.

For a Mason family narrowing down a list, the practical starting point is the 18 providers with Google ratings, since that's where the most independent feedback exists — SKIDADDLES OF MASON, INC. is one example among that rated group. From there, checking Step Up To Quality medal status adds a second, state-verified data point before calling around, since a provider can be highly rated by parents and still be outside the medal program, or vice versa. Given how few licensed homes Mason has, most searches here will naturally land on centers by default, so the differentiator ends up being location and which age groups a given center actually has room for.