Daycares in Lakewood, NJ

All 24 licensed child care facilities in Lakewood, ranked by their real state inspection record — not ads. Every rating below comes from official licensing and violation data.

24licensed daycares

—average safety rating

100%with a clean record

0with violations on record

#	Daycare	Rating	Violations (2 yr)	Capacity
1	Cozy Island Childcare Inc500 River Ave Ste 100	Unrated	None	168
2	Forest Daycare LLC440 Ninth Street / 825 Forest	Unrated	None	60
3	Kiddie Care NJ, LLC1771 Madison Avenue	Unrated	None	37
4	Kiddie Care NJ, LLC 2911 Somerset Avenue	Unrated	None	83
5	Kiddie Zone1015 Park Ave	Unrated	None	189
6	Kids at Play Lakewood LLC708 Princeton Ave	Unrated	None	106
7	Kids World419 5th Street	Unrated	None	151
8	Kids World 2612 Madison Avenue	Unrated	None	78
9	Kidz Place525 Oberlin Ave	Unrated	None	238
10	Lakewood Head Start999 Airport Road	Unrated	None	52
11	Lakewood Head Start30 E 8th Street	Unrated	None	132
12	Lakewood Multicultural Preschool100 Ridge Ave	Unrated	None	111
13	Little People Childcare140 Lehigh Ave	Unrated	None	199
14	Lots 4 Tots763 River Avenue	Unrated	None	82
15	Oorah Inc.1785 Swarthmore Avenue	Unrated	None	78
16	Peek-A-Boo Childcare II LLC601 Prospect Street	Unrated	None	383
17	Ready Set Grow301-350 Monmouth Ave	Unrated	None	180
18	SPARK Preschool580 Oak Street	Unrated	None	210
19	The Learning Ladder Academy60 Chambers Bridge Road	Unrated	None	96
20	The Special Children's Center, Inc1400 Prospect Street	Unrated	None	180
21	Tiferes Bais Yaakov613 Oak Street	Unrated	None	120
22	Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars Child Care Center313 Third Street	Unrated	None	36
23	YKIDS at Clifton Avenue Grade School625 Clifton Avenue	Unrated	None	150
24	YKIDS at Oak Street School75 Oak Street	Unrated	None	150

Ranked by DaycareAlert's violations-based safety rating (recency-weighted state inspection findings), then by fewest recent violations. "Violations (2 yr)" counts citations in the last two years so cities and facilities are comparable regardless of how far back a state's records go. Data comes directly from state licensing agencies — always open a facility's full record before deciding.