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Data on Massachusetts Child Care Programs

EEC publishes commonly requested data about licensed and funded providers, as well as select Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) survey findings.

If you are looking for data not available on this page, please review EEC’s public data guide and submit a data request via the GovQA platform.

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Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Survey Data

EEC provides monthly C3 grants to support early education and care providers’ day-to-day operational and workforce costs. 

Open PDF file, 1.13 MB,  C3 Survey Data Fall 2023 (English, PDF 1.13 MB)

This is the most up-to-date C3 data

Open PDF file, 943.07 KB,  C3 Survey Data Spring 2023 (English, PDF 943.07 KB)

Open PDF file, 596.13 KB,  C3 Survey Data Fall 2022 (English, PDF 596.13 KB)

Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Survey Questions

Open PDF file, 543.51 KB,  C3 Survey Questions August 2024 (English, PDF 543.51 KB)
Open PDF file, 418.76 KB,  C3 Survey Questions Fall 2023 (English, PDF 418.76 KB)

EEC Licensed and Funded Child Care Programs

Data on licensed and funded programs includes by program city/town location and licensing capacity in total, as well as broken down by age group.

  • Licensed programs are programs that are subject to licensing regulations by EEC, which include meeting health and safety standards, training and professional development requirements, criminal and background checks, and maintaining appropriate ratios of educators to children. Licensed programs can include any of the following: family child care and group and school age programs.
  • Funded programs are programs that are not subject to licensure by EEC but have the approval from EEC to provide subsidized child care for low-income or at-risk families.  Funded programs can include any of the following: public schools; private schools; religious schools; and government, tribal, and military child care programs.

Open XLSX file, 1.13 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (May 2024) (English, XLSX 1.13 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.12 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (April 2024) (English, XLSX 1.12 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.12 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (March 2024) (English, XLSX 1.12 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.17 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (February 2024) (English, XLSX 1.17 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.17 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (January 2024) (English, XLSX 1.17 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.11 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (December 2023) (English, XLSX 1.11 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.09 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (November 2023) (English, XLSX 1.09 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.08 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (October 2023) (English, XLSX 1.08 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.07 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (September 2023) (English, XLSX 1.07 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.07 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (August 2023) (English, XLSX 1.07 MB)
Open XLSX file, 1.06 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (July 2023) (English, XLSX 1.06 MB)

Open XLSX file, 12.22 MB,  Licensed and Funded Programs (FY23: July22 - June23) (English, XLSX 12.22 MB)

This file contains data about licensed/funded providers during FY23 (July 1, 2022, to June 1, 2023). This spreadsheet provides a monthly snapshot of programs that were licensed and/or funded as of the first of every month during this period.

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