Daycares in Washington

1,418 licensed child care providers in Washington, 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.

Washington3.5
Other states3.4

616 providers sampled

Daycare Index Rating

-4 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.

Washington47
Other states51

404 providers sampled

Washington over time

Every dated record we hold for Washington, 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

Washington 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

20162026

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

Show the figures

Average parent review star rating for Washington daycares, by year, by year, with sample sizes
Year	Average rating	Sample
2016	4.80	50
2017	4.49	99
2018	4.35	120
2019	4.17	145
2020	4.67	144
2021	4.54	164
2022	4.31	150
2023	4.40	264
2024	4.44	375
2025	4.49	703
2026	4.49	676

Where they are in Washington

Every Washington 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 Washington is administered by the Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Licensing Division under WAC 110-300. 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://dcyf.wa.gov/services/earlylearning-childcare/child-care-check

Washington averages