
Browse 1,206 child daycare & preschools across South Carolina. Find licensed daycare centers, compare options by city, and choose the best childcare for your family.
Finding the right daycare center for your child is crucial. Understanding the landscape of childcare services in South Carolina can make the decision-making process smoother.
South Carolina has about 1,657 daycares providing essential child services for families in the state.
Compare the average fees charged by daycare centers in South Carolina. Consider your budget while ensuring that the chosen daycare offers the necessary services and quality care.
There are 1,657 daycares in South Carolina: 151 headstart facilities, 172 before/after school centers, 128 religious facility daycares, and 1,206 childcare and preschool centers.
| Daycare Type | Total |
|---|---|
| Childcare & Pre-school | 1,206 |
| Headstart Programs | 151 |
| Religious / Church Based Daycare | 128 |
| Before or After School | 172 |
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Reviews are highly polarized. Positive reviews praise staff compassion, communication, educational activities, and children's happiness. Negative reviews cite unprofessional management, inadequate child supervision, hygiene concerns, and poor overall operations.
The Baby Depot has highly polarized reviews. One parent praised the center's care and compassion, while multiple other parents reported serious safety concerns including unexplained injuries, inadequate supervision, and poor management responses to complaints. State records indicate multiple DSS claims for supervision and ratio violations.
Eastside Community Learning Center receives highly polarized reviews. Positive reviewers praise the owner Ms. Miller and staff for exceptional care, academic preparation, and a nurturing environment. However, negative reviewers report unprofessional payment practices, inadequate supervision, and concerns about child safety and staff responsiveness.
Rogers Infant Center has highly polarized reviews. Positive reviews from parents and grandparents praise the staff, particularly Ms. Pam and Ms. Ashley, for their care and the children's happiness and development. However, multiple negative reviews describe concerning incidents including aggressive staff behavior, physical discipline, inadequate supervision, poor hygiene, and child injuries including bites and bruises.
Rogers Child Care Center has highly polarized reviews. Positive reviews from current/former families praise staff members like Ms. Pam and Ms. Ashley, noting children's happiness and developmental progress. However, multiple 1-star reviews report serious concerns including aggressive staff behavior, physical discipline, inadequate supervision ratios, and unaddressed incidents of biting and bruising.
This daycare center receives overwhelmingly negative reviews citing serious safety and care concerns, including neglect, poor hygiene, staff inadequacy, and failure to follow parental instructions. One positive review praised the after-school program and engaged teachers, but this is vastly outweighed by multiple reports of health/safety issues and management problems.
Northstar Child Development Center has extremely polarized reviews. Two parents praised the Christian curriculum, sign language instruction, clean facility, and staff quality. However, three parents reported serious concerns including child abuse incidents, poor director communication, frequent unannounced closures, lack of staffing, and delayed incident reporting.
Stepping Stones Academy receives highly polarized reviews with ratings ranging from 1 to 5 stars. Positive reviews praise the staff's attentiveness, hands-on approach, and curriculum effectiveness, while negative reviews cite serious concerns about staff-to-child ratios, communication, outdoor activities, hygiene, and the director's conduct.
Mother Goose Day Care has highly polarized reviews, with some parents praising attentive staff and happy children, while others report serious concerns including inappropriate child dismissals, lack of transparency about services, sanitation issues, and owner accountability problems.
Little Folks Daycare has highly polarized reviews. While one parent reports their children love attending, the majority of reviews cite serious concerns about communication, enrollment procedures, and overall trustworthiness of the facility.
Arms of Love Academy has received predominantly negative reviews citing serious concerns about staff professionalism, child safety, and hygiene. One positive review praised the daycare's care, but four detailed negative reviews described inadequate communication, improper handling of young children, potential physical discipline, and use of restraint chairs without proper supervision.
Windsor Academy has a mixed reputation with dramatically conflicting reviews. Several long-term parents praise the staff, Pre-K program, and caring environment, but serious safety and management concerns have been raised, including a child abuse investigation resulting in arrests of three staff members in 2024.
South Aiken Baptist Day Care has received overwhelmingly negative reviews citing serious operational and safety concerns, though one parent praised the staff's personal touch and quality classes. Multiple parents reported chronic understaffing, high teacher turnover, poor hygiene, frequent unplanned closures, inadequate supervision ratios, and disorganization over a multi-year period.
All five recent reviews rate this daycare 1/5 stars with serious safety and care concerns. Parents report physical harm to children including scratches, bruises, hitting, pushing, and arm-pulling, along with inadequate supervision and harsh treatment of infants. Multiple parents state they removed their children after brief enrollment periods.
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