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Top 25 Childcare and early education centers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 11,250 childcare and early education centers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 166,394 professional contacts across them, including 24,270 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers childcare and early education 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 childcare and early education centers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,348 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 → | ||||
Strong 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 | 2,465 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Childcare Network was founded in 1988 in Columbus, Georgia with the initial acquisition of just two schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 1,878 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With more than 50 years of experience, we pride ourselves on being a trusted, supportive, reliable provider of early education and care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,440 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 906 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 10 | 860 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 11 | 852 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Plymouth-Canton Community Schools operates 15 elementary schools, five middle schools, three high schools & an alternative high school program.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 635 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The National Head Start Association is a leading non-partisan, nonprofit organization that believes that every child, regardless of circumstances at birth, has the ability to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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. | |||||
| 17 | 600 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 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. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 506 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “An exclusive childcare company that focuses on unique curriculum to promote global learning for the next generation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 494 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 24 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 25 | 471 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
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: childcare and early education 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 childcare and early education centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of childcare and early education centers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name childcare and early education 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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Childcare and early education 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 11,250 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 childcare and early education 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 “childcare and early education 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 childcare and early education 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 childcare and early education 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, 24,270 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.
Childcare and early education centers by metro
- Childcare and early education centers in New York217
- Childcare and early education centers in Chicago132
- Childcare and early education centers in San Francisco89
- Childcare and early education centers in Houston85
- Childcare and early education centers in Philadelphia81
- Childcare and early education centers in Portland73
- Childcare and early education centers in Seattle64
- Childcare and early education centers in Columbus63
- Childcare and early education centers in Austin62
- Childcare and early education centers in Dallas55
- Childcare and early education centers in Los Angeles54
- Childcare and early education centers in Washington53
- Childcare and early education centers in Atlanta52
- Childcare and early education centers in Miami52
- Childcare and early education centers in Charlotte51
- Childcare and early education centers in San Diego50
- Childcare and early education centers in San Antonio49
- Childcare and early education centers in Omaha46
- Childcare and early education centers in Madison44
- Childcare and early education centers in Pittsburgh42
- Childcare and early education centers in Indianapolis41
- Childcare and early education centers in San Jose40
- Childcare and early education centers in Albuquerque39
- Childcare and early education centers in Orlando38
- Childcare and early education centers in Bronx37
- Childcare and early education centers in Phoenix37
- Childcare and early education centers in Springfield37
- Childcare and early education centers in Denver36
- Childcare and early education centers in Louisville35
- Childcare and early education centers in Kansas City33
- Childcare and early education centers in Tampa33
- Childcare and early education centers in Brooklyn32
- Childcare and early education centers in Minneapolis32
- Childcare and early education centers in Richmond32
- Childcare and early education centers in Nashville31
- Childcare and early education centers in Raleigh31
- Childcare and early education centers in Wilmington31
- Childcare and early education centers in Boston30
- Childcare and early education centers in Columbia30
- Childcare and early education centers in Jacksonville30
- Childcare and early education centers in Lincoln30
- Childcare and early education centers in Milwaukee30
- Childcare and early education centers in Sacramento30
- Childcare and early education centers in Cincinnati29
- Childcare and early education centers in Rochester29
- Childcare and early education centers in Arlington27
- Childcare and early education centers in Oakland27
- Childcare and early education centers in Cleveland25
- Childcare and early education centers in Fort Worth25
- Childcare and early education centers in Gainesville25
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 childcare and early education 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 childcare and early education centers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 11,250 childcare and early education 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 childcare and early education centers?
New York leads with 217 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (132) and San Francisco (89).
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 24,270 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 11,250 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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About this data
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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