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Tennessee Child Care: Licensed Providers

Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Tennessee'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.

Tennessee has 4,054 licensed child care providers on public record across 95 counties. Tennessee'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 Star-Quality quality rating, we show it too.

Provider types

Where the providers are

Tennessee cities/towns with the most licensed providers:

1. Memphis — 548 providers
2. Nashville — 299 providers
3. Knoxville — 241 providers
4. Chattanooga — 173 providers
5. Clarksville — 117 providers
6. Murfreesboro — 105 providers
7. Franklin — 72 providers
8. Jackson — 56 providers
9. Johnson City — 55 providers
10. Kingsport — 53 providers

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Tennessee child care in the news

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

• Nashville Daycare Helping Keep Public Charter School Teachers in the Classroom
  NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts · Aug 20, 2026
• Kentucky doctor left baby granddaughter in hot car for 8 hours to die after forgetting to drop her off at daycare
  New York Post · Aug 20, 2026
• Parents urged to research daycare safety after recent death of 6-year-old on Cordova daycare bus
  FOX13 Memphis · Aug 20, 2026
• State Report Reveals Daycare Violations After Child Dies on Bus
  asatunews.co.id · Aug 19, 2026
• Shelby County Grand Jury Reviews Daycare Death of Six Year Old Girl
  Readers.id · Aug 19, 2026
• How to find out if your day care has faced fines, been cited for safety violations
  WREG.com · Aug 19, 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 Tennessee 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 Tennessee Department of Human 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.