Daycares in San Diego, CA
782 licensed child care providers in San Diego, 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.
San Diego averages
Averaged across every licensed provider in D1.
Parent sentiment
+0.4 vs California averageAverage parent review rating on Google or Yelp.
- San Diego3.4
- California3.0
89 providers sampled
Daycare Index Rating
+4 vs California averageComposite of licensing, inspections, reviews, accreditation, transparency. See scoring guide.
- San Diego54
- California51
48 providers sampled
What changed in San Diego 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 teachers52% of reviews, from 41%+11.0 pts
Complained about less
No complaint fell enough to report.
Ranked lists for San Diego
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.
- 1REFORMATION LUTHERAN CHURCH/SCHOOL49Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 52
- 2MONTESSORI CHILD DEVELOPMENT, LLC46Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 14
- 3SCRIPPS EXPLORING ACADEMY46Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 166
- 4SCRIPPS RANCH SWIM & RACQUET CLUB46Elevated Risk
SCHOOL AGE DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 42
- 5TESORO PRESCHOOL46Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 48
- 6MANNA'S MARTIAL ARTS, INC.45Elevated Risk
SCHOOL AGE DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 49
- 7SAGEBRUSH CHILDREN'S CENTER44Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 72
- 8SACRED HEART ACADEMY PRESCHOOL43Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 75
- 9CHINESE BILINGUAL PRE-SCHOOL42Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 90
- 10NEST MONTESSORI SCHOOL, THE41Elevated Risk
SINGLE LICENSED CHILD CARE CENTER · capacity 36
- 11KIDS' CARE CLUB40Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 119
- 12UNIVERSITY CITY UNITED CHURCH NURSERY SCHOOL40Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 45
- 13FAA MERRY GO AROUND39Elevated Risk
SINGLE LICENSED CHILD CARE CENTER · capacity 109
- 14WEE CARE EARLY LEARNING CENTER39Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 170
- 15GRACE KIDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL38Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 109
- 16MIRA MESA PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL38Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 63
- 17NESE KIDS CARE37Elevated Risk
SINGLE LICENSED CHILD CARE CENTER · capacity 80
- 18OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH PRESCHOOL35Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 50
- 19PEARL MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL35Elevated Risk
SINGLE LICENSED CHILD CARE CENTER · capacity 65
- 20HILLCREST PRESCHOOL33Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 71
- 21ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL33Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 52
- 22LIFETIME MONTESSORI30Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 234
- 23PENASQUITOS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL30Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 115
- 24ASCENSION MONTESSORI CHILDREN'S CENTER29Elevated Risk
SINGLE LICENSED CHILD CARE CENTER · capacity 70
- 25BAY PARK ACADEMY29Elevated Risk
SINGLE LICENSED CHILD CARE CENTER · capacity 85
