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South Carolina Child Care: Licensed Providers

Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in South Carolina's public open data — the roster its licensing agency publishes. 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.

South Carolina has 2,305 licensed child care providers on public record across 46 counties. South Carolina'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. Where the state publishes a ABC Quality quality rating, we show it too.

Provider types

Where the providers are

South Carolina cities/towns with the most licensed providers:

1. Columbia — 201 providers
2. Florence — 117 providers
3. Greenville — 106 providers
4. Charleston — 96 providers
5. Summerville — 78 providers
6. Spartanburg — 59 providers
7. Sumter — 58 providers
8. Rock Hill — 56 providers
9. North Charleston — 53 providers
10. Lexington — 44 providers

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South Carolina child care in the news

Recent third-party coverage of South Carolina child care. Headlines link to the original source — these are news reports, not our licensing records.

• Children's Place celebrates Therapeutic Child Care graduates
  Post and Courier · Aug 24, 2026
• NDR 2026: Monthly childcare fees to fall by more than half to $150 by 2030, infant care fees to drop to $300
  Yahoo News Singapore · Aug 23, 2026
• Former daycare employee charged with malicious punishment of six children in Prior Lake
  kare11.com · Aug 21, 2026
• Why more than 400,000 kids are on waitlists for federal childcare assistance
  South Carolina Public Radio · Aug 19, 2026
• Report: Half of typical US family’s paycheck taken up by housing, childcare
  Baltimore Sun · Aug 18, 2026
• 'Heart of Brown Bear': Families remember mother, daughter killed in daycare murder-suicide
  WOAI · Aug 18, 2026

Coverage is gathered automatically from public news sources and isn't an endorsement; we link out and don't host the articles.

How to check a specific provider

Search any South Carolina provider by name or city to see its details and a link to the official state record.

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Methodology & source

Providers: the South Carolina Department of Social Services's licensed child care roster, published as public open data. 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.