Louisiana Child Care: Licensed Providers
Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Louisiana from the state's open data. This report summarizes the landscape and points you to each provider's official state record. It is a factual overview, not a safety rating of any provider.
Louisiana has 1,704 licensed child care providers on public record across 64 parishes. Louisiana's open data is a directory — the licensing and inspection history for a provider lives on the official state record, which we link to on every provider page.
Provider types
| Type | Providers |
|---|---|
| Elc - Type Iii Application | 1,196 |
| Elc - Family Home Application | 183 |
| Elc - Type I Application | 171 |
| Elc - Type Ii Application | 154 |
Where the providers are
Louisiana cities/towns with the most licensed providers:
- New Orleans — 170 providers
- Baton Rouge — 161 providers
- Shreveport — 85 providers
- Lafayette — 66 providers
- Metairie — 51 providers
- Monroe — 46 providers
- Lake Charles — 45 providers
- Hammond — 32 providers
- Marrero — 30 providers
- Bossier City — 29 providers
How to check a specific provider
Search any Louisiana provider by name or city to see its details and a link to the official state record.
Methodology & source
Providers: the Louisiana Department of Education licensed child care roster, published as open data (doe.louisiana.gov). Childcare Alerts surfaces and summarizes these public records; the official government record always controls, and the absence of a record is not a guarantee of safety. Childcare Alerts is an independent service, not affiliated with any state agency.