Daycares in Torrance, CA
114 licensed child care providers in Torrance, 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.
Torrance averages
Averaged across every licensed provider in D1.
Parent sentiment
+0.1 vs California averageAverage parent review rating on Google or Yelp.
- Torrance3.2
- California3.0
22 providers sampled
Daycare Index Rating
-2 vs California averageComposite of licensing, inspections, reviews, accreditation, transparency. See scoring guide.
- Torrance49
- California51
9 providers sampled
What changed in Torrance 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 teachers55% of reviews, from 50%+5.3 pts
Complained about less
No complaint fell enough to report.
Ranked lists for Torrance
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.
- 1REDONDO BEACH MONTESSORI SCHOOL39Elevated Risk
SINGLE LICENSED CHILD CARE CENTER · capacity 122
- 2GOOD SHEPHERD PRE-SCHOOL34Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 73
- 3SOUTHWOOD PRE-SCHOOL32Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 156
- 4SOUTH BAY MONTESSORI SCHOOL30Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 180
- 5ASCENSION LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL & CHILD CARE CENTER26Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 66
- 6EXCELSIOR PRESCHOOL TORRANCE LLC21Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 72
- 7PLAYHOUSE SCHOOL21Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 90
- 8HICKORY TREE PRESCHOOL12Elevated Risk
DAY CARE CENTER · capacity 100
- 9FUTUREKIDS LEARNING ACADEMY8Elevated Risk
INFANT CENTER · capacity 11
