Daycares in Georgia

5,519 licensed child care providers in Georgia, 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.

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Averaged across every licensed provider on record, excluding this state from the comparison.

Parent sentiment

+0.3 vs Other states average

Average parent review rating on Google or Yelp.

Georgia3.6
Other states3.4

1,740 providers sampled

Daycare Index Rating

-2 vs Other states average

Average Daycare Index Rating across the providers here that carry a score. Each score is built only from the public record available for that provider, and whatever the data cannot answer is excluded rather than guessed at. See scoring guide.

Georgia49
Other states51

1,199 providers sampled

Georgia over time

Every dated record we hold for Georgia, bucketed by calendar year. Each panel names its own coverage: a line appears once a year carries enough observations to be a point rather than an anecdote, and says why it is empty when it is.

Safety index trend

Georgia publishes inspection outcomes, but not in a form this pipeline can read, so there is no violation-rate line to draw here. Read that as a gap in what we can see, not as a finding. An empty inspection history is not a clean record.

Parent sentiment trend

20152026

Average star rating across every dated parent review on record for Georgia. Reviews are counted individually here, unlike the state averages above.

Show the figures

Average parent review star rating for Georgia daycares, by year, by year, with sample sizes
Year	Average rating	Sample
2015	4.64	78
2016	4.25	130
2017	4.26	198
2018	4.35	294
2019	4.21	380
2020	4.52	265
2021	4.23	315
2022	4.21	442
2023	4.30	754
2024	4.42	1,193
2025	4.40	2,246
2026	4.47	2,571

Where they are in Georgia

Every Georgia provider we hold a location for. Click a pin for the license record, and pan or zoom to load more.

Where this record comes from

Licensing in Georgia is administered by the Bright from the Start: Department of Early Care and Learning under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 591-1-1. This directory republishes the public record and labels every absent field "Not listed" rather than filling it in. Verify current status with the agency before enrolling.

Primary source: https://families.decal.ga.gov

Georgia averages