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Top 25 Child development centers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 8,700 child development centers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 134,945 professional contacts across them, including 19,438 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers child development centers headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest child development centers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,348 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Transform lives-including yours-with the nation’s leading provider of early childhood education and child care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 7,226 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Goddard School uses the most current, academically endorsed methods to ensure that children have fun while learning the skills they need for long-term success in school and in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 5,746 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Primrose Schools® is a national franchise company that provides high-quality early education and care to children and families across America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Child Care Services Association (CCSA) is now Early Years!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,440 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than five decades, Childtime has been a guiding light in the child care and early education field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 968 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tutor Time has been supporting working families in Florida since the 1980s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 950 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Teaching Strategies is the leading provider of curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family connection resources in the early childhood field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 906 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From the first hello of the day, to the last good-bye, we want every child to feel safe, nurtured, and excited to learn and grow with us, and for you to consider Lightbridge…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 860 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cadence Education is one of the nation’s premier early childhood educators, providing high-quality childcare and early learning programs including play-based, Montessori, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) assists close to parents, children, and child care providers each month in Northern Los Angeles County and the entirety of San Bernardino County…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 648 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Children of America (COA): It’s A Special Recipe of People, Principles And Pride.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 641 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gymboree Play & Music has been fostering creativity and confidence in children ages 0-5 for over 45 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 606 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brightside Academy proudly offers quality education and child care to children from all families and socio-economic backgrounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 600 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “One Hope United (OHU) is a nonprofit providing early childhood education, child and family services, clinical services, and residential programs for 130 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 578 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Children’s Courtyard was founded in Arlington, Texas, in 1986.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 565 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1966, ECS4Kids (Episcopal Children's Services) is a Non-Profit organization with strong entrepreneurial spirit that uses research and the best practices to help…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 536 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Rainbow Child Care Center is a leading provider of high-quality early education and child care services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 519 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Southwest Human Development is Arizona’s largest nonprofit dedicated to early childhood development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 494 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Illinois Action for Children is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to quality, accessible early learning and care opportunities for children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crème de la Crème provides childcare of the highest quality, stressing a safe, secure environment; a nurturing, professional staff; and the finest educational experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 471 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cadence Academy provides exceptional childcare and early education programs for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years old.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 460 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An academically focused preschool for ages 6 weeks to 5 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 457 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One of the oldest and most respected early childhood education agencies in the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 415 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “All children deserve the great start that excellent early education provides, including in under-resourced communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 412 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: child development centers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names child development centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of child development centers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name child development centers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Child development centers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 8,700 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among child development centers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “child development centers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names child development centers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among child development centers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 19,438 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Child development centers by metro
- Child development centers in New York173
- Child development centers in Chicago116
- Child development centers in Philadelphia67
- Child development centers in Houston63
- Child development centers in San Francisco60
- Child development centers in Portland59
- Child development centers in Seattle51
- Child development centers in Los Angeles49
- Child development centers in Columbus43
- Child development centers in Washington43
- Child development centers in San Antonio42
- Child development centers in Dallas41
- Child development centers in San Diego39
- Child development centers in Austin38
- Child development centers in Atlanta36
- Child development centers in Charlotte36
- Child development centers in Miami36
- Child development centers in Omaha36
- Child development centers in Pittsburgh35
- Child development centers in Bronx32
- Child development centers in Indianapolis31
- Child development centers in Brooklyn30
- Child development centers in Phoenix30
- Child development centers in Albuquerque29
- Child development centers in Cincinnati29
- Child development centers in Kansas City29
- Child development centers in Springfield29
- Child development centers in Orlando28
- Child development centers in San Jose28
- Child development centers in Wilmington28
- Child development centers in Louisville27
- Child development centers in Madison26
- Child development centers in Columbia25
- Child development centers in Milwaukee25
- Child development centers in Nashville25
- Child development centers in Raleigh25
- Child development centers in Tampa25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names child development centers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many child development centers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 8,700 child development centers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Kindercare Learning Companies, headquartered in Lake Oswego, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most child development centers?
New York leads with 173 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (116) and Philadelphia (67).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 19,438 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 8,700 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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