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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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EEC Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboard

Data on key metrics concerning early education and care across the Commonwealth. Click here.

Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Survey Questions

Open PDF file, 427.84 KB,  C3 Survey Questions Spring 2025 (English, PDF 427.84 KB)
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)

Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Dashboard

C3 provides operational funding to programs across Massachusetts. Click here to see a dashboard of the amount of funds approved for disbursement by state fiscal year by program. 

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, 487.72 KB,  C3 Survey Data Fall 2024 (English, PDF 487.72 KB)

This is the most up-to-date C3 data

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

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)

EEC Licensed and Funded Child Care Programs

Each month, EEC publishes a list of licensed and funded child care programs. The data are sourced from EEC's Licensing Education Analytic Database (LEAD) and contain various program attributes such as a program's location, type, and licensed capacity. Data on licensed and funded child care providers extends back to as early as April 2022. You may browse or download the complete list of month-over-month child care program data on the Education-to-Career (E2C) Research and Data Hub by clicking here.

  • 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.

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