Child care in Wisconsin
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4,543 child care providers in Wisconsin.
From the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF), Bureau of Early Care Regulation: Wisconsin Licensed Child Care Directory; and the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF), for the family child care certified by Wisconsin’s counties, tribes and DCF: Wisconsin Certified Child Care Directory.
What Wisconsin’s list coversLicensed and certified programs
Licensed group child care, family child care and day camps, and the family child care homes Wisconsin certifies, from its directory of them. Programs run by public schools, which are exempt from licensing, aren’t shown.
What we’ve asked for
We asked Wisconsin’s Department of Children and Families on Oct 19, 2026 whether we may show its child care inspection records; we’re waiting for an answer. Until then, they’re on Child Care Finder.
4,543of 4,543 child care providersshown with your filters
What the words on these cards mean9
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- The state’s most serious level
- Each state grades findings on its own scale and in its own words, so the record counts a state’s findings at that state’s top level. Two states’ top levels aren’t the same thing, so the counts aren’t compared across states. Source: How this site reads each state’s scale.
- Not read
- The file this site reads doesn’t carry what inspectors found, so nothing is counted here. It doesn’t mean the place has a clean record: the state’s own site may have its reports. Source: How this site reads each source.
- Quality rating
- Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
- Licence status
- Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
- None on record
- The source lists nothing of this kind for the place, over the years its file covers. That is what the record holds, not proof that nothing ever happened. Source: How this site reads each source.
- Not published
- The source has no such field for this place. It isn’t a zero, and it isn’t a clean record. Source: How this site reads each source.
The list
- Licensed group child care Dreamland Child Care 3 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53215 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it65children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Dreamland Child Care 4 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it44children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Dreamland Childcare Center LLC Racine, Wisconsin 53405 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it30children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Certified family child care Dreams 2 Reality Racine, Wisconsin 53403 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it6children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeCertified Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed family child care Dreams and Hope Institute Academies Childcare Ctr Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53218 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed family child care Dreams Are Us Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53209 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed family child care Dreams Come True Child Care Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53216 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed family child care Dreams Come True Child Care Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53216 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed family child care Dryden and Finley Learning Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53209 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed family child care Dunn Daycare Colfax, Wisconsin 54730 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed group child care Dynamic Child Care Solutions LLC Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it47children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Certified family child care Dyriece K Steward Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53216 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it6children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeCertified Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed group child care Eagle River Head Start Eagle River, Wisconsin 54521 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it20children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed group child care Eagles Wing Child Care and Edu Prog Madison, Wisconsin 53705 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it107children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed family child care Early B’s Childcare Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53220 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Certified family child care Early Brilliant Childhood Learning Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53209 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it6children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeCertified Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed family child care Early Care Knowledge Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Early Childhood Academy Inc. Rhinelander, Wisconsin 54501 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it55children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Early Childhood Educational Ctr LLC Oak Creek, Wisconsin 53154 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it46children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Early Discoveries Nursery and Preschool LLC Edgerton, Wisconsin 53534 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it55children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Early Learning Academy Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53215 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it89children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed group child care Early Learning Center Neenah, Wisconsin 54956 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it75children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 4 of 5
- Certified family child care Early Minds Academy LLC Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53216 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it6children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeCertified Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed family child care Early Success Learning Academy Racine, Wisconsin 53404 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed family child care Earnestly Family Childcare Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53208 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed group child care East Side YMCA Green Bay, Wisconsin 54311 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it35children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed day camp East YMCA Discovery Day Camp Madison, Wisconsin 53716 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it144children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Day CampFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed group child care Eau Claire Head Start Center Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it64children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed family child care Ebenezer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53216 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed group child care Ebenezer Cc Centers Inc. - Oak Creek Oak Creek, Wisconsin 53154 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it166children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed group child care Ebenezer Cc Ctrs Inc. - Bayview Southside Mke Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53207 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it130children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Ebenezer Child Care Center - West Allis West Allis, Wisconsin 53214 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it95children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed group child care Ebenezer Child Care Center Inc. Downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it135children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed group child care Ebenezer Child Care Ctrs Inc. Brookfield Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it50children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Ebenezer Child Care Ctrs Inc. South Milwaukee S Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53172 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it60children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Ebenezer Child Care Ctrs Inc. Waukesha Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it75children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Ecc on Campus Edgerton, Wisconsin 53534 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it38children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed family child care Edens Garden Child Care Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53225 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Edgar Child Care Center Edgar, Wisconsin 54426 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it22children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed group child care Edgerton Children’s Center LLC Edgerton, Wisconsin 53534 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it55children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed group child care Educare Academy LLC Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53208 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it19children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed family child care Education 2 Success Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53224 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed group child care Education 2 Success LLC Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53222 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it50children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed group child care Eichers’ Kids Inc. Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it99children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed family child care Eight Is Enough Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54902 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it8children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed group child care Einstein School Madison, Wisconsin 53719 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it40children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed family child care El Mundo De Ninos Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it12children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 4 of 5
- Certified family child care El Principito Family Day Care LLC Madison, Wisconsin 53718 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it6children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeCertified Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 4 of 5
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Source:
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF), Bureau of Early Care Regulation, Wisconsin Licensed Child Care Directory. Released Nov 4, 2026. Updated daily.
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF), for the family child care certified by Wisconsin’s counties, tribes and DCF, Wisconsin Certified Child Care Directory. Released Nov 4, 2026. Updated daily.
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