Licensed Preschool in Hartford, VT

Preschool in Hartford

As of July 2026

Hartford has 23 licensed child care providers on CloverMap, with a combined licensed capacity of about 663 children — an average of roughly 29 spots per program. Google review coverage is limited here: just 2 providers have enough reviews for an average rating, and both are rated 4.5 stars or higher, for a 5.0-star average. Eight Hartford providers, including Toddler's Morning Out, Inc., hold a 4- or 5-star rating under Vermont's STARS system, more than a third of the local market.

What to know about childcare in Hartford

With 23 licensed programs, Hartford is one of the smaller child care markets covered in the licensing data by provider count. Those providers together hold a combined licensed capacity of roughly 663 children, an average of about 29 children per program — a modest scale that keeps most individual Hartford providers within reach of a direct, side-by-side comparison rather than requiring heavy filtering.

Only 2 of Hartford's 23 providers have generated enough Google reviews to produce an average rating, and both of those 2 are rated 4.5 stars or higher, for a 5.0-star average — though with a sample this small, it describes only a sliver of the local market rather than Hartford child care broadly. STARS tells a fuller story: 8 of Hartford's 23 providers hold a 4- or 5-star STARS rating, more than a third of all licensed providers in the city.

All 23 Hartford providers are licensed through Vermont's Department for Children and Families' Child Development Division, the agency that also runs the STARS recognition system. Because only 2 of 23 providers here have Google ratings at all, STARS status — covering 8 of the 23 — is the more useful lens for families trying to compare quality across Hartford's broader provider base rather than just the handful with online reviews.

Families researching Hartford on CloverMap should treat the 5.0-star Google average as a data point from a very small sample rather than a citywide verdict, and instead lean on the 8-of-23 STARS participation rate and the 663-child combined licensed capacity as broader starting filters. Toddler's Morning Out, Inc. is one provider within that set of 23; as always, confirming current availability directly with any shortlisted program is the necessary next step.

Hartford's low Google review volume is common among Vermont's smaller cities, where fewer families leave public reviews even when a program is well regarded locally. In markets like this, a provider's STARS status and its combined licensed capacity relative to the rest of the city are generally more reliable starting points than review counts, which can lag well behind a program's actual reputation.

Hartford's combination of a modest average program capacity and thin Google review coverage means families here may need to rely more on direct outreach than on aggregated online signals. Comparing STARS status across the 8 recognized providers, alongside each program's share of the 663-child combined licensed capacity, is a reasonable way to build a first-round shortlist before scheduling visits or calls. Even a handful of positive reviews can be meaningful in a market this size, but they shouldn't outweigh the STARS record when the reviewed sample is this small.