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Part-Time Daycare in West Des Moines, IA

Daycares that offer part-time care in West Des Moines, with the ages each one serves, its hours and its state record.

daycares that offer part-time care in West Des Moines
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daycare centers
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All daycares that offer part-time care in West Des Moines

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Providers on paid plans are listed first, then A to Z by name. We do not rank daycares.

How this list is made: West Des Moines daycares that say they offer part-time care. A daycare not on this list may still offer part-time care; ask.

Cost

What daycare costs in West Des Moines

Full-time infant care in Polk County has a median of $177 a week at a center and $119 at a home daycare. A year at the center median is 12% of the county's median household income. Each daycare sets its own price, so call to ask.

Infant

Center$177
Home daycare$119

Toddler

Center$153
Home daycare$117

Preschool

Center$153
Home daycare$117

Polk County median, full time, per week. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, National Database of Childcare Prices, 2022.

Before you enroll

Choosing part-time care in West Des Moines

  1. 1

    Ask which days

    Ask whether part-time means set days each week or half days, and whether you can change them.

  2. 2

    Ask about cost

    Ask how part-time tuition compares with full time, and whether you pay for holidays and sick days.

  3. 3

    Ask about the group

    Ask whether part-time children join the same room each time.

  4. 4

    Check the license record

    Open a listing for its state license and, where the state publishes it, the inspection record.

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Questions

Questions

How many daycares that offer part-time care are in West Des Moines?

6 daycares that offer part-time care are listed in West Des Moines. A daycare not on this list may still offer part-time care; ask.

What counts as part-time daycare?

Care for less than a full week: half days, or two or three days a week. Each daycare sets its own options, so ask which days and hours it offers part-time and whether a half-day spot costs less than a full day.

Are these daycares licensed in Iowa?

Every listing here comes from the Iowa child care license records.