Open your daycare with the inspector on your side.
Getting licensed is not one checklist. It is a state licensing agency, a fire marshal, and a health inspector, each signing off on ratios, square footage, and staff files before you can open your doors. We turn your state's rules into one clear, inspection-ready plan.
Three sign-offs, three different offices, one plan that keeps them straight.
A daycare that meets every state licensing rule can still be held up by a fire marshal or a health inspector, or delayed because one staff background check is missing. Here is how the sign-offs actually stack, and who decides each one.
State child care license
Ratios by age, group size, square footage per child, director qualifications, and health and safety policies, plus the application itself. This is the license that lets you legally enroll children.
Fire & building safety
Exits, alarms, extinguishers, square footage, and playground safety. Most first-time providers underestimate how early this inspection has to happen, and it can gate your license.
Health & background checks
Sanitation, safe sleep, immunization records, and the fingerprint-based background checks every adult on site must clear before they are ever alone with children.
One pack, built around your state, your facility type, and your inspection.
Answer a short intake about your state, facility type, capacity, and staff. The pack assembles the licensing path for exactly that case, plus the ratios, square footage, staff files, and inspection prep a licensing inspector will actually check.
- Intake axisstate + facility + capacity
- Facility typescenter · home · preschool · school-age
- Formatorganized pack + fillable templates
- Deliveryinstant, after checkout
Ratios, square footage, sanitation, staff files. We prep you for every line an inspector checks.
The inspection prep checklist walks the same criteria a state licensor uses, so your first visit is a formality, not a surprise.
Built for the people who actually run the room.
We never present a ratio, square-footage rule, or fee as final when it varies by state or changes year to year. You get the current requirement plus the agency to confirm it with, not a number we made up.
Every requirement points back to the state agency that actually enforces it, with contact information, so you can verify it at the source before you act.
ChildCareComp is an independent information publisher, not a licensing agency or a law firm. We help you prepare your own application and inspection materials and make no promises about approval.
Every pack is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. ChildCareComp is a new publisher, so we do not show customer reviews yet; the cards above describe how the pack is built, not testimonials.
Every kind of program, every rule it has to meet.
Child care centers
Center-based programs sizing classrooms, ratios, and staffing to state code.
Family child care homes
Home-based providers under separate, lower-capacity licensing rules.
Preschools
Preschool and pre-K programs meeting director and curriculum standards.
School-age & Head Start
Before and after school and Head Start programs juggling several rule sets.
Ratios, square footage, training hours, and fees genuinely differ by state and change year to year. A site that hands you a confident number it made up is how a good provider gets cited. Where a requirement is state-specific, we hand you the current rule and the agency to confirm it with.
ChildCareComp is an independent information publisher, not a licensing agency or a law firm. We help you prepare your own materials, and we make no promises about approval.
The current infant staff-to-child ratio and maximum group size.
Your state child care licensing agency.
“What is the licensed ratio and group size for infants in a [center / home] in [state], and when did it last change?”
Four tools that tell you where you stand today.
Free Licensing Assessment
Your compliance gap scorecard from a two-minute intake.
Staff-to-Child Ratio Calculator
Check your ratios against your state's requirements.
Compliance Gap Finder
Find the gaps an inspector would flag, with citations.
Inspection Simulator
Walk your facility the way a state licensor will.
Find your licensing path in two minutes.
Start free. See exactly which agencies you answer to and what each one checks, then get your state's pack when you're ready to open.
