Licensed Daycares in Woodbridge, ON

Daycare & Childcare in Woodbridge

Woodbridge, the largest community within Vaughan, brings 33 licensed child care centres to MapleCub's dataset — an entirely centre-based market, with no licensed home providers recorded. The quality signals are among the better ones in York Region: 19 of the 33 centres have three or more Google reviews, that group averages 4.67 against Ontario's 4.46, and 12 centres are rated 4.5 or above. Three programs hold perfect 5.0 ratings — St. Mark's Child Care Centre (7 reviews), Upper Canada Child Care at St. Padre Pio CES (5 reviews) and Sister Carmelina's Preschool Academy (5 reviews) — though all three rest on modest review counts, so treat them as strong leads rather than settled rankings. A distinctive local pattern: many Woodbridge centres operate inside or alongside Catholic elementary schools, reflecting the community's parish infrastructure. All 33 centres participate in Ontario's CWELCC fee-reduction system, and one offers French-language programming. Age-group licensing is not recorded for any listing, so confirm ages directly.

What to know about childcare in Woodbridge

Woodbridge is a centres-only market in our data — all 33 licensed programs are group centres. What is more distinctive is where those centres sit. Names like Upper Canada Child Care at St. Padre Pio CES and St. Mark's Child Care Centre point to a pattern that shapes daily life here: a substantial share of Woodbridge's child care operates inside or beside elementary schools, especially York Catholic District School Board sites. School-based programs simplify life enormously once a child reaches kindergarten — one drop-off, familiar hallways, automatic before-and-after-school continuity — but they also tend to prioritize families already attending that school, so ask about catchment and enrolment priority up front.

The review record is comparatively healthy. Nineteen of 33 centres clear three Google reviews, and the rated group's 4.67 average sits well above Ontario's 4.46. Twelve centres hold 4.5 or better. At the top, St. Mark's Child Care Centre (5.0 across 7), Upper Canada at St. Padre Pio (5.0 across 5) and Sister Carmelina's Preschool Academy (5.0 across 5) are all unblemished — but none has accumulated a deep review base, so the honest reading is that Woodbridge has a cluster of well-regarded programs rather than one proven standout. A handful of five-star reviews is a good sign, not a guarantee.

Every centre in the market is enrolled in the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system, so CWELCC-reduced fees for children under six apply throughout Woodbridge. As everywhere in the GTA, the binding constraint is space rather than price: York Region waitlists for licensed care — infant rooms above all — routinely run long, and Vaughan's density means popular school-based programs fill from their own school communities first.

One caution on using this page: none of Woodbridge's 33 listings report licensed age groups in our dataset, an Ontario-wide gap rather than a local one. MapleCub cannot currently tell you which centres run infant rooms versus preschool-only programs. Make licensed age groups your first phone question, and if you need infant care, start the search a full six months or more before your return to work.