Daycares in Pennsylvania

7,528 licensed child care providers in Pennsylvania, 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

+0.1 vs Other states average

Average parent review rating on Google or Yelp.

Pennsylvania3.5
Other states3.4

2,624 providers sampled

Daycare Index Rating

-5 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.

Pennsylvania46
Other states51

1,469 providers sampled

Pennsylvania over time

Every dated record we hold for Pennsylvania, 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

Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania. Reviews are counted individually here, unlike the state averages above.

Show the figures

Average parent review star rating for Pennsylvania daycares, by year, by year, with sample sizes
Year	Average rating	Sample
2015	4.46	61
2016	4.36	158
2017	4.08	301
2018	4.07	443
2019	4.34	579
2020	4.35	362
2021	4.48	523
2022	4.22	786
2023	4.37	1,053
2024	4.47	1,501
2025	4.51	2,358
2026	4.57	2,159

Where they are in Pennsylvania

Every Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania is administered by the DHS, Office of Child Development and Early Learning under 55 Pa. Code Ch. 3270. 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://www.compass.dhs.pa.gov/providersearch

Pennsylvania averages