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Early Morning Daycare in Montana

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

daycares that open before 7 AM listed
72
towns
24
towns have their own early morning daycare page
5
of all Montana daycares
6%

Map of Montana: 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 Montana 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.

Montana

Largest towns for early morning daycare in Montana

Billings30 open before 7 AMGreat Falls10 open before 7 AMButte3 open before 7 AMHelena3 open before 7 AMKalispell3 open before 7 AMColumbia Falls2 open before 7 AMColumbus2 open before 7 AMMissoula2 open before 7 AMPolson2 open before 7 AMBig Timber1 open before 7 AMColstrip1 open before 7 AMDeer Lodge1 open before 7 AM

Programs

Programs in Montana

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 daycares1,163
Take infants655
Child care centers646
Accept subsidy38
In-home daycares517
Christian & church daycares46
Montessori schools68
Preschools & pre-K881
Early morning daycare72
Part-time daycare40
Drop-in daycare21
After-school care711
Head Start86

The Montana state record

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child Care Licensing licenses daycares in Montana.

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 2018
Cited rules
Each cited rule, in the state's own wording
Search the Montana state records

Before you enroll

Choosing early morning care in Montana

  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.

Montana

Cost, inspections and ratios in Montana

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

A to Z

All 24 Montana towns with early morning daycare, A to Z

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Nearby

Nearby states

Idaho124 open before 7 AMNorth Dakota70 open before 7 AMSouth Dakota63 open before 7 AMWyoming40 open before 7 AM

Questions

Questions about early morning daycare in Montana

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

72 daycares that open before 7 AM are listed in 24 Montana towns. Each listing shows its opening time. Ask whether it opens that early every day.

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

Billings, with 30 listed. Next are Great Falls (10) and Butte (3).

Which daycares in Montana open at 6 AM?

22 daycares open at 6 AM or earlier by the hours we hold in Montana. All 72 on this list open before 7 AM. Call to confirm the time.

Which daycares in Montana open at 5 AM?

2 open at 5 AM or earlier.

Who licenses daycares in Montana?

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child Care Licensing licenses daycares in Montana. It publishes its inspections and the rules it cited, and we copy them onto each listing.