Daycares in Berkeley, CA
117 licensed child care providers in Berkeley, drawn from the state licensing agency's public records. Each profile carries the license number, status, and capacity on record. Where the state publishes nothing for a field, or the daycare is not licensed, the profile says so plainly.
Berkeley averages
Averaged across every licensed provider in D1.
Parent sentiment
+0.5 vs California averageAverage parent review rating on Google or Yelp.
- Berkeley3.5
- California3.0
27 providers sampled
Daycare Index Rating
+9 vs California averageComposite of licensing, inspections, reviews, accreditation, transparency. See scoring guide.
- Berkeley60
- California51
13 providers sampled
What changed in Berkeley this year
The share of dated parent reviews mentioning each theme, over the last twelve months against the twelve before them. Shares rather than totals, because we hold more recent reviews than old ones and counting raw mentions would show everything rising. Only themes with enough mentions to be worth reading appear here.
Praised more than last year
- Staff and teachers54% of reviews, from 50%+3.7 pts
Complained about less
No complaint fell enough to report.
Ranked lists for Berkeley
Highest-confidence providers
Ranked by the Confidence Index lower bound: the score the public record can defend, not the score a single glowing review can inflate. How scoring works.
- 1BERKELEY HILLS NURSERY SCHOOL46Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 40
- 2NEW SCHOOL OF BERKELEY, THE45Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 48
- 3CHILDRENS COMMUNITY CENTER44Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 52
- 4BERKELEY LITTLE SCHOOL41Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 42
- 5MUSTARD SEED PRESCHOOL36Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 66
- 6MI MUNDO PRESCHOOL31Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 29
- 7CONGREGATION NETIVOT SHALOM29Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 30
- 8ARBOR PRESCHOOL EAST26Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 22
- 9CEDAR CREEK MONTESSORI SCHOOL25Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 40
- 10LITTLE BEANS PRESCHOOL25Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 40
- 11NIA HOUSE LEARNING CENTER24Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 84
- 12STEP ONE SCHOOL24Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 108
- 13BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL21Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 21
