Rankings

Best Daycares in Florida

Every Florida provider on this site is scored on the same five categories: DCF inspection history, parent reviews, accreditation, staff qualifications, and profile transparency. One method, one state, applied to the whole public record. Rankings update nightly.

How we score every provider

Detailed methodology →

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These shares are ceilings, not the formula. A category we cannot check for a provider drops out of that provider's score entirely, and the remaining categories are re-weighted against each other.

Regulatory & Safetyup to 50%Safety history the state itself inspects, where the state's records can be read.
Parent Reviewsup to 17%Lived experience of families, adjusted so a handful of reviews cannot skew the picture.
Accreditationup to 12%Investment in quality beyond basic licensing.
Staff Qualificationsup to 12%Not scored yetNot yet scoreable anywhere. No state publishes this per provider.
Transparencyup to 9%How much practical information a provider actually shares.

Statewide indexes

Four ways to read the same scores. The Top 100 ranks on the full composite; the others isolate one category each, so you can weigh inspection history against what parents say.

Ranked lists by city

Florida's 51largest cities by provider count. Smaller towns are reachable through search and the map rather than a ranking of their own, because a list of two providers is a worse version of each provider's own profile.