Licensed Daycares in Westerville, OH

Daycare & Childcare in Westerville

As of July 2026

Westerville's 51 providers in Ohio's licensing data split as 41 centers and 7 home-based programs, a center-heavy mix. Of those, 32 carry a Google rating, averaging 4.3 stars, and 16 are rated 4.5 stars or higher. Under Ohio's Step Up To Quality system, 23 Westerville providers hold a Gold, Silver, or Bronze rating — 13 Gold, 1 Silver, and 9 Bronze. CloverMap lists Westerville's full roster, including verified providers like Enchanted Care Learning Center, for parents comparing options.

What to know about childcare in Westerville

Westerville's 51 providers lean heavily toward centers: 41 centers to 7 homes, or about 80% and 14%. That's one of the more center-dominant splits among comparable Ohio cities, meaning a Westerville search will mostly involve comparing dedicated facilities, with home-based care available but limited to a small share of the roster — just 7 of 51 providers citywide.

Just under half of Westerville's roster is medaled: 23 of 51 providers, or 45%, hold a rating under Ohio's Step Up To Quality program, split as 13 Gold, 1 Silver, and 9 Bronze. Google ratings cover a larger share — 32 providers, or 63%, averaging 4.3 stars, with 16 rated 4.5 stars or higher. With only 1 Silver-rated provider in the entire city, that tier is essentially an outlier locally compared to Gold and Bronze.

Westerville's providers are licensed through Ohio's Department of Children and Youth (DCY), which sets the baseline standards for staffing, health and safety, and operations across both centers and family child care homes statewide. Step Up To Quality sits above that license as a voluntary review, and in Westerville, Gold is the most common medal among the providers that have gone through it, appearing in well over half of all medaled Westerville programs.

Among Westerville's 23 medaled providers, Gold at 13 is the clear leader over Bronze at 9 and Silver at just 1. That pattern, combined with a 63% Google-rating coverage rate, means a Westerville parent has two independent, largely positive signals to check against each other when comparing a shortlist of centers.

For a Westerville parent, the center-heavy mix (41 of 51 providers) makes centers the default starting point, though the 7 home-based programs remain an option for families who prefer that smaller setting. Because Google ratings cover a larger share of the roster than Step Up To Quality medals do here, checking both — especially among the 16 providers rated 4.5 stars or higher — gives a fuller picture than either measure alone before a family narrows down its search.

Practicality matters too: with 51 total providers, Westerville is small enough that a parent can realistically review every option that fits a given schedule rather than relying on filters alone. Starting with the 32 Google-rated providers and cross-checking against the 23 that carry a Step Up To Quality medal is a workable way to build a shortlist worth calling. Reviewing both lists side by side, rather than assuming a high Google rating implies a Step Up To Quality medal or vice versa, is the more reliable approach in a market this size.