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442 Daycare Centers in Delaware

Browse 442 daycare centers across Delaware. Find licensed daycare centers, compare options by city, and choose the best childcare for your family.

Choosing Daycare Centers in Delaware

Finding the right daycare center for your child is crucial. Understanding the landscape of childcare services in Delaware can make the decision-making process smoother.

Delaware has about 442 daycares providing essential child services for families in the state.

Compare the average fees charged by daycare centers in Delaware. Consider your budget while ensuring that the chosen daycare offers the necessary services and quality care.

Daycare Breakdown in Delaware

There are 442 daycares in Delaware: 20 headstart facilities, 38 before/after school centers, 8 religious facility daycares, and 376 childcare and preschool centers.

Daycare Type	Total
Childcare & Pre-school	376
Headstart Programs	20
Religious / Church Based Daycare	8
Before or After School	38

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🎨 Preschools 43 ✝️ Christian Daycare 8 🎒 After School Programs 8 🌱 Montessori 7

All Daycare Centers in Delaware

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Ymca Of Delaware - New Castle

Child Daycare & Preschools

This YMCA location receives mixed reviews. While some patrons praise the friendly staff and facilities like the pool, the majority of reviews express significant dissatisfaction with management professionalism, customer service responsiveness, rising costs, and reduced operating hours.

Friendly staffpool facilitiesworkout amenities

Address: 903 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE
Phone: (302) 323-2880

Ymca Of Delaware/Baltz

Child Daycare & Preschools

Reviews are mixed with significant concerns about management and customer service. While some patrons praise the facility's amenities and friendly atmosphere, multiple long-term members report unprofessional staff, poor communication, rising costs, and declining service quality.

Friendly staffgood workout facilitiespool access

Address: 1500 Spruce Avenue, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 766-2992

Precious Moments Education & Community Center INC.

Child Daycare & Preschools

Precious Moments receives highly polarized reviews, with strong praise from some parents for bilingual education, attentiveness, Christian values, and flexible policies, but serious concerns from others regarding inadequate supervision, documentation inaccuracies, safety incidents, and neglect of infants and toddlers.

Bilingual educationeducational progressattentive staff

Address: 4607 South Du Pont Highway, Dover, DE
Phone: (302) 632-7165

Delaware Tech Child Development Center Terry Campus

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 100 Campus Drive, Dover, DE
Phone: (302) 857-1720

Destined For Greatness Learning Center

Child Daycare & Preschools

Destined for Greatness Learning Center receives mixed reviews with strong praise from satisfied parents about staff friendliness, educational focus, and long-term attendance, but serious concerns from other parents about staff bias toward neurodivergent children, medication administration failures, safety issues, and lack of communication.

Friendly and attentive staffdetailed daily reports and educational assessmentshomework provided

Address: 24 East North Street, Smyrna, DE
Phone: (302) 514-9296

One Step Ahead Child Care & Preschool INC.

Child Daycare & Preschools

One Step Ahead has highly polarized reviews. Most parents (6 of 9) praise the staff's care, professionalism, and child development outcomes, with some families using the center for over a decade. However, a minority of parents report issues with management professionalism, staff conduct, payment inflexibility, and enrollment requirements.

Caring and hands-on staffchild development and learningstaff responsiveness to concerns

Address: 432 Salem Church Road, Newark, DE
Phone: (302) 292-1162

Beverlys Helping Hand

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 400 West 9th Street, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 651-9304

The Growing Palace III

Child Daycare & Preschools

THE GROWING PALACE III has highly polarized reviews. Positive reviews praise the new ownership, caring staff, structured curriculum, and hands-on management. Negative reviews cite cleanliness issues, staff rudeness, health and safety concerns including illness transmission, and inconsistent care quality.

Caring and compassionate teachersstructured curriculum with letters/numbers/seasonshands-on owner and director

Address: 111 Patriot Drive, Suite A-B, Middletown, DE
Phone: (302) 376-5553

Corporate Kids Learning Center

Child Daycare & Preschools

Corporate Kids Learning Center in Dover, Delaware receives consistently high praise from parents. All 10 recent reviews are 5-star ratings highlighting excellent staff, strong communication, engaging activities, and caring classroom environments. Parents report feeling confident in the center's ability to handle concerns promptly.

Attentive and compassionate teachersresponsive management (Michelle and Dawn)regular photo/video updates to parents

Address: 605 South Bay Road, Dover, DE
Phone: (302) 678-0688

Expanding Our Kids World INC.

Child Daycare & Preschools

EXPANDING OUR KIDS WORLD INC. receives highly polarized reviews ranging from 1-5 stars. Positive reviews praise the staff's caring approach, family-like atmosphere, and quality childcare. Negative reviews cite management issues, unprofessional director behavior, lack of incident reporting, unrealistic pickup policies, and concerns about food quality and child safety.

Loving and attentive stafffamily-like environmentcontinuous learning opportunities

Address: 3460 South Dupont Boulevard, Smyrna, DE
Phone: (302) 659-0293

Kids-R-Us Learning Center INC.

Child Daycare & Preschools

Parents consistently praise Kids-R-Us Learning Center for its clean, secure facility, caring staff, and strong early childhood development programs. Multiple families highlight the welcoming atmosphere, personalized attention to children, and effective preparation for kindergarten. The center offers modern conveniences like a mobile app for daily updates and green paperless systems.

Clean and well-maintained facilitysecure access and safety measurescaring and kno

Address: 425 Webbs Lane, Dover, DE
Phone: (302) 678-1234

Smarty Pants Academy

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 204 Georges Alley, Smyrna, DE
Phone: (302) 715-2040

Lessons Learned Day Care And Preschool II

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 207 North Union Street, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 777-2200

Spirit Life Early Learning Center

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 3401 Governor Printz Boulevard, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 764-9673

Kiddie International Academy Child Care II

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 843 Salem Church Road, Newark, DE
Phone: (302) 838-2183

Dover Educational & Community Center

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 744 River Road, Dover, DE
Phone: (302) 883-3103

Gods Gifts/Thirst To Learn Child Development Center

Child Daycare & Preschools

Reviews are polarized with five 5-star ratings praising the caring environment, educational structure, and staff like Ms. Linda, versus four 1-star ratings citing director rudeness, unprofessionalism, health/safety concerns, and poor communication. One review notes new ownership as of September 2020 intended to improve the experience.

Warm and caring environmentstrong educational foundationchildren academically successful

Address: 2400 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, DE
Phone: (302) 475-7080

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 1200 Northeast Boulevard, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 229-0751

Tender Hearts Learning Center

Child Daycare & Preschools

Tender Hearts Learning Center has highly polarized reviews. While a few parents praise the daycare and staff member Bev, the majority of reviewers report serious concerns about staff professionalism, rudeness toward children, and unprofessional operations including alleged physical discipline.

Staff member Bev (per positive reviews)play activities available

Address: 1339 South Governors Avenue, Dover, DE
Phone: (302) 674-2565

Cindys Bright Stars Learning Center

Child Daycare & Preschools

Cindy's Bright Stars has highly polarized reviews. Two parents praised the staff as loving, professional, and flexible with positive learning outcomes. However, the majority of reviews report serious concerns including unsanitary conditions, inadequate supervision, failure to report illness outbreaks, late bus drop-offs, a child safety incident involving DSS involvement, and unprofessional staff conduct.

Kind and caring staffflexible schedulinggood learning outcomes

Address: 872 Forest Street, Dover, DE
Phone: (302) 734-4242

The Learning Center Tlc INC.

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 258 North Rehoboth Boulevard, Milford, DE
Phone: (302) 422-3728

Ncc Head Start INC. Absalom Jones

Headstart Programs

Address: 310 Kiamensi Road, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 999-8480

Ncc Head Start INC. Marshallton

Headstart Programs

Address: 310 Kiamensi Road, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 452-1500

Discovery Island Early Care And Preschool

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 32352 Smith Drive, Dagsboro, DE
Phone: (302) 732-7529

Beacon Of Hope Day Care

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 4001 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 764-7162

Millsboro Day Care And Preschool

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 314 Wilson Highway, Millsboro, DE
Phone: (302) 934-9153

Rainbow Daycare And Preschool

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 26630 Sussex Highway, Seaford, DE
Phone: (302) 628-1020

Fresh Start Child Care Academy

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 1410 Lancaster Avenue, Wilmington, DE
Phone: (302) 888-2148

Learning All Hours Educational Community & Youth Center LLC

Child Daycare & Preschools

Learning All Hours has highly polarized reviews. Positive reviews praise the caring staff, welcoming environment, and child development focus. Negative reviews consistently criticize the owner for being rude, unprofessional, inconsistent policy enforcement, and poor follow-up communication.

Caring and genuinely affectionate staffwelcoming environment with open parent accessgood early learning preparation

Address: 230 East Sheldrake Circle, Dover, DE
Phone: (302) 674-1935

The Next Step Learning Center INC.

Child Daycare & Preschools

Address: 2 West Church Street, Selbyville, DE
Phone: (302) 436-3633

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Frequently asked questions

There are 442 all daycares across Delaware. Browse by city to find options near you.

All licensed daycare facilities in Delaware are listed in our directory. You can also verify a facility's license status through Delaware's childcare licensing agency. Licensed facilities must meet state standards for safety, health, staff-to-child ratios, and staff qualifications.

When comparing daycare options in Delaware, consider:

Licensing status and inspection history
Staff-to-child ratios (Delaware sets minimum requirements by age group)
Staff qualifications and training
Safety measures and facility cleanliness
Parent reviews and Google ratings
Curriculum and daily schedule
Location, hours, and cost

Daycare costs in Delaware vary by location, child's age, and facility type. Full-time center-based care typically ranges from $150 to $400+ per week. Infant care is generally more expensive due to lower staff-to-child ratio requirements. Urban areas tend to have higher costs than rural areas.