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Early Morning Daycare in Kentucky

Daycares that open before 7 AM in Kentucky, town by town. Pick a town below, or search by town or ZIP.

daycares that open before 7 AM listed
393
towns
112
towns have their own early morning daycare page
30
of all Kentucky daycares
16%

Map of Kentucky: each dot is a town with daycares that open before 7 AM, sized by how many are listed

Opens early
What puts a daycare on this listThe hours on its state license record open before 7 AM, or run 24 hours. Where the state publishes no hours, its public business listing gives the same opening time before 7 AM on every weekday.The Kentucky license list we load does not publish opening hours, so here this list uses the hours on each daycare's public business listing: the same opening time before 7 AM on every weekday.Each listing shows its opening time. Ask whether it opens that early every day.

Kentucky

Largest towns for early morning daycare in Kentucky

Louisville103 open before 7 AMLexington35 open before 7 AMBowling Green15 open before 7 AMFlorence11 open before 7 AMPaducah11 open before 7 AMNicholasville9 open before 7 AMOwensboro8 open before 7 AMRadcliff8 open before 7 AMBardstown7 open before 7 AMHopkinsville7 open before 7 AMRichmond7 open before 7 AMGeorgetown6 open before 7 AM

Programs

Programs in Kentucky

Counts come from the state record and what each daycare says it offers. A daycare without a tag may still offer the program; ask.

ProgramListed
All daycares2,445
Take infants1,085
Child care centers2,241
Accept subsidy1,644
In-home daycares204
Christian & church daycares225
Montessori schools56
Preschools & pre-K1,682
Early morning daycare393
Part-time daycare88
Drop-in daycare12
After-school care1,309
Bilingual daycare10
Head Start278

The Kentucky state record

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services licenses daycares in Kentucky.

License list
The state's public list of licensed child care
Ages served
The ages on each license
Inspections
Every visit the state publishes back to 2023
Cited rules
Each cited rule, in the state's own wording
Search the Kentucky state records

Before you enroll

Choosing early morning care in Kentucky

  1. 1

    Check the opening time

    Each listing shows its hours. Ask whether staff are there to take children at opening every day.

  2. 2

    Ask about breakfast

    Ask whether children who arrive early get breakfast, and whether you send it.

  3. 3

    Ask about the early group

    Some daycares combine age groups early in the morning. Ask who is with your child until the rooms open.

  4. 4

    Check the license record

    Open a listing for its state license, its hours as the state lists them and the inspection record.

Kentucky

Cost, inspections and ratios in Kentucky

Daycare cost in KentuckyWeekly prices by age and countyWhat Kentucky inspectors citeThe rules cited most, and what they meanStaff-to-child ratios in KentuckyHow many children each adult may care forTour checklist for KentuckyQuestions to ask when you visit

A to Z

All 112 Kentucky towns with early morning daycare, A to Z

A3 towns
B12 towns
C15 towns
D3 towns
E5 towns
F8 towns
G4 towns
H9 towns
I2 towns
J2 towns
L7 towns
M11 towns
N2 towns
O2 towns
P5 towns
R5 towns
S8 towns
T2 towns
U1 town
V2 towns
W4 towns

Nearby

Nearby states

Ohio2,680 open before 7 AMMissouri2,184 open before 7 AMVirginia1,816 open before 7 AMIndiana1,724 open before 7 AMTennessee1,405 open before 7 AMIllinois1,142 open before 7 AMWest Virginia58 open before 7 AM

Questions

Questions about early morning daycare in Kentucky

How many daycares that open before 7 AM are in Kentucky?

393 daycares that open before 7 AM are listed in 112 Kentucky towns. Each listing shows its opening time. Ask whether it opens that early every day.

Which Kentucky town has the most daycares that open before 7 AM?

Louisville, with 103 listed. Next are Lexington (35) and Bowling Green (15).

Which daycares in Kentucky open at 6 AM?

211 daycares open at 6 AM or earlier by the hours we hold in Kentucky. All 393 on this list open before 7 AM. Call to confirm the time.

Which daycares in Kentucky open at 5 AM?

13 open at 5 AM or earlier.

Who licenses daycares in Kentucky?

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services licenses daycares in Kentucky. It publishes its inspections and the rules it cited, and we copy them onto each listing.