Definition

A child care center is a facility in which seven or more children unrelated to the operator receive child care services.

The percents of 'Providers Not in STARS' and 'Providers in STARS' are proportions of the regulated

Data Source

Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Human Services, Office of Child Development and Early Learning

Notes

Pennsylvania’s Rising STARS initiative was launched to promote greater access for at-risk children to higher quality child care and better prepare them to succeed in school. Start with STARS is not recognized as a level of quality and was eliminated July 1, 2012.

Pennsylvania’s quality rating and improvement system, Keystone STARS, went through a revisioning process which started in February 2016 after 14 years of implementation. One of the outcomes of this evaluation is that all

Last Updated

2026-01