Licensed Full-Day Daycare in Springfield, OH

Full-Day Daycare in Springfield

As of July 2026

Ohio's licensing data puts Springfield's provider count at 33: 21 centers and 9 home-based programs. Of those, 8 carry a Google rating, averaging 4.2 stars, and 5 are rated 4.5 stars or higher. Under Ohio's Step Up To Quality system, just 8 Springfield providers hold a Gold, Silver, or Bronze rating — 5 Gold, 2 Silver, and 1 Bronze — the smallest medaled share among Ohio cities. CloverMap lists Springfield's full roster, including verified providers like Miami Valley CDC-Springfield Children's Center, for parents comparing options.

What to know about childcare in Springfield

Springfield's 33 providers lean toward centers, with 21 centers to 9 homes — about 64% centers and 27% homes. That gives Springfield families a center-first starting point, with home-based care available as a smaller share of the roster, at just over a quarter of all local providers.

Springfield stands out for how limited its Step Up To Quality coverage is: just 8 of 33 providers, or 24%, hold a medal — one of the smallest medaled shares among the cities in Ohio's licensing data. The breakdown is 5 Gold, 2 Silver, and 1 Bronze, meaning Gold is actually the most common outcome among the few providers that have been rated. Google ratings cover the same count, 8 providers, averaging 4.2 stars, with 5 rated 4.5 stars or higher.

Springfield's providers are licensed through Ohio's Department of Children and Youth (DCY), which sets the baseline requirements — staffing, health and safety, and operations — for both centers and family child care homes statewide. Step Up To Quality is the separate, voluntary rating layered on top of that license, and Springfield's low medaled count reflects limited local participation in that specific program rather than any issue with the underlying DCY licenses every provider holds — every one of Springfield's 33 providers has still met that baseline requirement.

Because only 8 of Springfield's 33 providers carry a Step Up To Quality medal, that measure covers a much smaller portion of the roster here than in most comparable Ohio cities — a parent relying on the medal alone would be assessing well under a third of local options.

For a Springfield parent, the center-lean mix (21 of 33 providers) is the natural starting point, with 9 home-based programs as a real alternative. Given how limited both the medaled and Google-rated pools are here — 8 providers each — a Springfield search benefits from direct outreach and comparison beyond what either rating system alone can show, especially for the majority of the 33 providers that carry neither.

With the medaled and Google-rated pools both capped at 8 providers out of 33, Springfield is one of the more data-light markets in Ohio's licensing data — not because the providers are unreviewed by nature, but because participation in both rating systems has been limited locally so far. That makes direct comparison across a wider slate of Springfield's 33 providers especially worthwhile. A parent working through Springfield's roster should expect to rely more on direct provider contact than on either rating system to fill in the gaps left by the smaller medaled and reviewed pools, particularly for the roughly two-thirds of providers that carry neither a medal nor a Google rating.