Licensed Infant Care in Warren, OH

Infant Care in Warren

As of July 2026

In Ohio's licensing data, Warren counts 41 providers: 25 centers and 12 home-based programs. Of those, 19 carry a Google rating, averaging 4.2 stars, and 8 are rated 4.5 stars or higher. Under Ohio's Step Up To Quality system, 19 Warren providers hold a Gold, Silver, or Bronze rating — 10 Gold, 2 Silver, and 7 Bronze. CloverMap lists Warren's full roster, including verified providers like Little Growing Minds, for parents comparing options before reaching out.

What to know about childcare in Warren

Warren's 41 providers lean toward centers, with 25 centers to 12 homes — about 61% centers and 29% homes. That gives Warren families a center-first starting point, with home-based care available as a smaller but real alternative for the roughly three in ten families who prefer it.

Nearly half of Warren's roster carries a Step Up To Quality medal: 19 of 41 providers, or 46%, split as 10 Gold, 2 Silver, and 7 Bronze — Gold-leaning but not overwhelmingly so. Google ratings cover an identical count of 19 providers, averaging 4.2 stars, with 8 rated 4.5 stars or higher. That overlap in coverage means a Warren parent comparing the two measures is working with roughly the same-sized pool either way.

Warren's providers operate under licenses from Ohio's Department of Children and Youth (DCY), the state agency that sets baseline staffing, health and safety, and operational standards for both centers and family child care homes. Step Up To Quality is the voluntary review layered on top of that license, and in Warren, Gold is the most common medal among the providers that have been rated, ahead of both Bronze and Silver.

Because Warren's medaled count (19) and Google-rated count (19) happen to match exactly, though not necessarily covering the same providers, a parent doing due diligence here benefits from checking both lists rather than assuming overlap — a provider strong on one measure may not appear on the other at all.

For a Warren parent, the center-lean mix (25 of 41 providers) is the likely starting point, though the 12 home-based programs give families who prefer that setting real options too. With just under half the roster medaled and Gold the leading tier, checking a shortlisted provider's Step Up To Quality rating is a reasonable first filter; cross-referencing against a Google rating — available for 19 of Warren's 41 providers — rounds out the comparison.

With 41 total providers, Warren's roster is compact enough for a parent to review most options directly. Treating the Step Up To Quality medal and the Google rating as complementary rather than redundant — since the two lists don't necessarily overlap — is the more thorough way to evaluate a Warren provider before reaching out. Warren's near-identical medaled and rated counts make this an easier city than most to cross-check systematically, since a parent isn't choosing between a large well-reviewed pool and a small medaled one, or the reverse. It also means that neither measure can be dismissed as a smaller or less representative sample than the other when comparing two Warren providers side by side.