Statewide index
Top 100 Washington Daycares
The Washington providers with the highest Daycare Confidence Index, ranked by the conservative lower bound of the score — what the public record can defend, not what one glowing review can inflate. Categories with no published data for Washington are excluded from the score rather than guessed at, and each profile names which ones those are.
How we score every provider
Methodology →50%
17%
12%
12%
9%
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.
Top 100 Washington Daycares
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