Part-Time Daycare in Massachusetts
Daycares that offer part-time care in Massachusetts, town by town. Pick a town below, or search by town or ZIP.
- daycares that offer part-time care listed
- 426
- towns
- 194
- towns have their own part-time daycare page
- 54
- of all Massachusetts daycares
- 5%
Map of Massachusetts: each dot is a town with daycares that offer part-time care, sized by how many are listed
Massachusetts
Largest towns for part-time daycare in Massachusetts
Programs
Programs in Massachusetts
Counts come from the state record and what each daycare says it offers. A daycare without a tag may still offer the program; ask.
| Program | Listed |
|---|---|
| All daycares | 8,884 |
| Take infants | 1,428 |
| Child care centers | 3,010 |
| Accept subsidy | 6,436 |
| In-home daycares | 5,874 |
| Christian & church daycares | 93 |
| Montessori schools | 173 |
| Preschools & pre-K | 2,248 |
| Early morning daycare | 236 |
| Part-time daycare | 426 |
| Drop-in daycare | 39 |
| After-school care | 1,651 |
| Bilingual daycare | 158 |
| Head Start | 178 |
The Massachusetts state record
Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care licenses daycares in Massachusetts.
- License list
- The state's public list of licensed child care
- Ages served
- On some licenses only; elsewhere shown where the daycare gives them
- Inspections
- On the state's own site; each listing links to it
Before you enroll
Choosing part-time care in Massachusetts
- 1
Ask which days
Ask whether part-time means set days each week or half days, and whether you can change them.
- 2
Ask about cost
Ask how part-time tuition compares with full time, and whether you pay for holidays and sick days.
- 3
Ask about the group
Ask whether part-time children join the same room each time.
- 4
Check the license record
Open a listing for its state license and, where the state publishes it, the inspection record.
Massachusetts
Cost, inspections and ratios in Massachusetts
A to Z
All 194 Massachusetts towns with part-time daycare, A to Z
A11 towns
B15 towns
- Bedford2 offer part-time
- Belchertown1 offer part-time
- Belmont3 offer part-time
- Beverly4 offer part-time
- Billerica2 offer part-time
- Boston16 offer part-time
- Boxborough1 offer part-time
- Boxford2 offer part-time
- Bradford1 offer part-time
- Braintree5 offer part-time
- Bridgewater1 offer part-time
- Brighton3 offer part-time
- Brookfield1 offer part-time
- Brookline4 offer part-time
- Burlington6 offer part-time
C8 towns
D10 towns
E5 towns
- East Bridgewater1 offer part-time
- East Freetown1 offer part-time
- East Longmeadow1 offer part-time
- East Walpole2 offer part-time
- Everett1 offer part-time
F5 towns
- Fall River1 offer part-time
- Florence1 offer part-time
- Foxboro1 offer part-time
- Framingham6 offer part-time
- Franklin6 offer part-time
G4 towns
- Georgetown1 offer part-time
- Gloucester1 offer part-time
- Grafton1 offer part-time
- Groton1 offer part-time
H13 towns
- Halifax1 offer part-time
- Hanover1 offer part-time
- Haverhill2 offer part-time
- Hingham3 offer part-time
- Holbrook1 offer part-time
- Holden1 offer part-time
- Holliston3 offer part-time
- Holyoke1 offer part-time
- Hopedale1 offer part-time
- Hopkinton2 offer part-time
- Hudson1 offer part-time
- Hull1 offer part-time
- Hyde Park2 offer part-time
I1 town
- Ipswich1 offer part-time
J2 towns
- Jamaica Plain2 offer part-time
- Jefferson1 offer part-time
K1 town
- Kingston1 offer part-time
L9 towns
M15 towns
- Malden2 offer part-time
- Mansfield2 offer part-time
- Marlborough4 offer part-time
- Marshfield1 offer part-time
- Marstons Mills1 offer part-time
- Mattapoisett1 offer part-time
- Maynard1 offer part-time
- Medfield2 offer part-time
- Medford4 offer part-time
- Medway1 offer part-time
- Melrose2 offer part-time
- Methuen1 offer part-time
- Milford3 offer part-time
- Milton4 offer part-time
- Monson1 offer part-time
N19 towns
- Nantucket1 offer part-time
- Natick5 offer part-time
- Needham5 offer part-time
- New Bedford1 offer part-time
- Newburyport3 offer part-time
- Newton5 offer part-time
- Newton Lower Falls1 offer part-time
- North Andover5 offer part-time
- North Attleboro2 offer part-time
- North Billerica2 offer part-time
- North Chelmsford2 offer part-time
- North Dighton1 offer part-time
- North Easton1 offer part-time
- North Reading3 offer part-time
- Northampton2 offer part-time
- Northborough3 offer part-time
- Norton3 offer part-time
- Norwell2 offer part-time
- Norwood3 offer part-time
P6 towns
- Palmer1 offer part-time
- Peabody5 offer part-time
- Pepperell1 offer part-time
- Pittsfield1 offer part-time
- Plainville3 offer part-time
- Plymouth2 offer part-time
Q1 town
- Quincy2 offer part-time
R6 towns
S27 towns
- Sagamore1 offer part-time
- Sagamore Beach1 offer part-time
- Salem1 offer part-time
- Scituate2 offer part-time
- Seekonk2 offer part-time
- Sharon7 offer part-time
- Sheffield1 offer part-time
- Shirley1 offer part-time
- Shrewsbury4 offer part-time
- Shutesbury1 offer part-time
- Somerville4 offer part-time
- South Dartmouth1 offer part-time
- South Deerfield1 offer part-time
- South Easton2 offer part-time
- South Weymouth1 offer part-time
- Southborough1 offer part-time
- Southbridge1 offer part-time
- Southwick1 offer part-time
- Springfield5 offer part-time
- Sterling2 offer part-time
- Stoneham2 offer part-time
- Stoughton1 offer part-time
- Stow1 offer part-time
- Sturbridge1 offer part-time
- Sudbury2 offer part-time
- Sutton1 offer part-time
- Swampscott2 offer part-time
T5 towns
U1 town
- Upton2 offer part-time
V1 town
- Vineyard Haven1 offer part-time
W28 towns
- Wakefield1 offer part-time
- Walpole2 offer part-time
- Waltham1 offer part-time
- Watertown3 offer part-time
- Wayland3 offer part-time
- Wellesley4 offer part-time
- Wellesley Hills2 offer part-time
- West Boylston1 offer part-time
- West Bridgewater1 offer part-time
- West Brookfield1 offer part-time
- West Dennis1 offer part-time
- West Newbury2 offer part-time
- West Roxbury2 offer part-time
- West Springfield1 offer part-time
- Westborough4 offer part-time
- Westford3 offer part-time
- Westminster1 offer part-time
- Weston4 offer part-time
- Westwood2 offer part-time
- Weymouth2 offer part-time
- Whitman1 offer part-time
- Wilbraham1 offer part-time
- Wilmington1 offer part-time
- Winchester2 offer part-time
- Woburn8 offer part-time
- Woods Hole1 offer part-time
- Worcester2 offer part-time
- Wrentham1 offer part-time
Y1 town
- Yarmouthport1 offer part-time
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Nearby
Nearby states
Questions
Questions about part-time daycare in Massachusetts
How many daycares that offer part-time care are in Massachusetts?
426 daycares that offer part-time care are listed in 194 Massachusetts towns. A daycare not on this list may still offer part-time care; ask.
Which Massachusetts town has the most daycares that offer part-time care?
Boston, with 16 listed. Next are Cambridge (8) and Woburn (8).
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.
Who licenses daycares in Massachusetts?
Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care licenses daycares in Massachusetts. It publishes inspections on its own site; use the state search linked on this page.