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 day camp Rcc Summer Day Camp Mt Pleasant, Wisconsin 53404 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it30children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Day CampFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Certified family child care Reach for the Sky LLC Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045 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 group child care Reach One Teach One As They Grow Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53209 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it23children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed family child care Reaching for the Stars Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53206 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 family child care Reaching Past the Stars Academy Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53223 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 Reading Rainbow Academy III Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53204 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: 5 of 5
- Licensed family child care Ready for Your Adventure Nurturing Family Cc 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
- Certified family child care Ready Set Grow Childcare 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 Ready Set Grow Childcare Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53210 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 Ready Set Grow Early Childhood Development Center 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 Ready Set Learn Child Care Ctr 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 Ready Step Grow Family Childcare Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53210 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 Ready to Learn and Play Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53222 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 day camp Rec Well Summer Camp Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it165children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Day CampFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 4 of 5
- Licensed group child care Red Balloon - North La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it91children, 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 Red Caboose Child Care Center Inc. Madison, Wisconsin 53704 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 Red Caboose School Age Lapham Madison, Wisconsin 53703 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it90children, 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 Red Caboose School Age Marquette Madison, Wisconsin 53703 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it100children, 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 Red Cliff Early Childhood Center Bayfield, Wisconsin 54814 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it82children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed group child care Redeemer Early Learning Programs Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54703 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 Redeemer Lutheran Learning Center Tomahawk, Wisconsin 54487 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it104children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 4 of 5
- Licensed group child care Redeemer Lutheran Preschool Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it25children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Certified family child care Redmond’s Childcare Racine, Wisconsin 53405 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
- Certified family child care Ree’s Enrichment Center Phillips, Wisconsin 54555 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
- Certified family child care Regina Johnson Wausau, Wisconsin 54403 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 Regis Child Development Center Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701 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 family child care Reign’s Abundant Life Childcare 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 ratingNot published
- Certified family child care Renadi Village Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53206 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 group child care Renaissance Child Dev Ctr-Marshall Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it93children, 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 Renee Nygaard Wisc Rapids, Wisconsin 54495 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
- Certified family child care Renee Stoker Hixton, Wisconsin 54635 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: 3 of 5
- Licensed group child care Renewal Unlimited - Adams Head Start Adams, Wisconsin 53910 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it57children, 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 Renewal Unlimited - Beaver Dam Head Start Beaver Dam, Wisconsin 53916 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it56children, 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 Renewal Unlimited - Necedah Necedah, Wisconsin 54646 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 Renewal Unlimited - Reedsburg Area Learning Center Reedsburg, Wisconsin 53959 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 ratingYoungStar: 5 of 5
- Licensed group child care Renewal Unlimited Sauk Prairie Pr Du Sac, Wisconsin 53578 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 family child care Resa’s Family Childcare 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 group child care Respite Center Madison, Wisconsin 53704 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it13children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 3 of 5
- Licensed day camp Revitalize Life Skills Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it25children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Day CampFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 2 of 5
- Licensed group child care Revive Now Academy Tomahawk, Wisconsin 54487 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 Rhinelander Head Start Rhinelander, Wisconsin 54501 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 family child care Rhonda’s Care Bears Childcare 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 Rhonda’s Little Rainbows Mosinee, Wisconsin 54455 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 Rhymes-N-Rainbows Site 1 Chippewa Fls, Wisconsin 54729 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 Rhymes-N-Rainbows Site 2 Chippewa Fls, Wisconsin 54729 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 Ricardo Diaz Early Learning Academy Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53215 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it326children, 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 Rice Lake Cesa 11 Head Start Rice Lake, Wisconsin 54868 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it34children, 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 Ridgeland-Dallas Head Start Ridgeland, Wisconsin 54763 Not readwhat inspectors found: the file read here doesn’t carry it17children, its capacity in the state’s list TypeLicensed Group Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingYoungStar: 5 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 6, 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 6, 2026. Updated daily.
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