Licensed Daycares in Port Perry, ON
Port Perry has the deepest review base of any city in this batch outside Quebec. Sixty-eight reviews across six providers.
9 listings found
Port Perry has 9 licensed programmes. 6 carry a public Google rating with five or more reviews. 8 publish their hours.
Curiosity Child Care
open until 18:30
Daycare & Childcare in Port Perry
9
Licensed centres
4.45★
Avg Google rating
3
Rated 4.5+
6
Ontario Childcare.ca
Port Perry has the deepest review base of any city in this batch outside Quebec. Sixty-eight reviews across six providers. That is enough to be worth reading, though not enough to be conclusive, and the average sits at 4.45 stars, which is a shade under the Ontario-wide 4.46 and well within the range you would expect from ordinary variation. Helping Hands leads on volume. Twenty-one reviews at 4.7 stars makes it both the most-reviewed and one of the best-rated centres in town.
What to know about childcare in Port Perry
Nine listings, eight operators. Where We Grow Early Learning Centre appears twice in our data and the Curiosity organisation runs both a child care centre and a separate school-age programme, so the number of genuinely distinct full-day choices in Port Perry is closer to six than to nine. All nine are centres, with no licensed family dayhomes listed in the township.
Three of the six rated providers clear 4.5 stars. Curiosity Child Care sits at 4.3 across twelve reviews and Where We Grow at 4.6 across nine, so the spread here is narrow, and a parent choosing between them is not being told much by the star ratings alone. Go and visit both.
No age data at all. Every Port Perry listing is blank on age groups, which is the Ontario norm rather than a Port Perry problem, and it means the infant question, usually the hardest one to solve in a town this size, has to be asked provider by provider. Eight of nine listings have a phone number, so that is a manageable afternoon of calls.
Every provider participates in the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system. Durham Region administers fee subsidy for Scugog Township, so income-tested help is handled at the regional level rather than by the centre, and families who assume the reduced fee is the only support available often leave the subsidy unclaimed. Two different things.
Eight of nine have websites. That is unusually good coverage, and it makes Port Perry one of the easier towns in our Ontario data to research from a laptop. Whitby and Oshawa are roughly half an hour south with substantially more supply, which is the standard fallback for Scugog families who cannot find a space locally in the month they need one.
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Tips for choosing childcare in Port Perry
Verify Licensing
Confirm the centre holds a current provincial licence. A licence means the province checked baseline health, safety and staffing standards — it is a floor, not a ranking.
Read Parent Reviews
Reviews cover what an inspection report never will: what drop-off feels like, whether messages get answered, how long staff stay.
Ask About Curriculum
Ask what a Tuesday actually looks like. "Montessori" and "play-based" mean different things at different centres, so the daily schedule tells you more than the label does.
Consider Schedule Fit
Check the posted open and close times against your commute, not just your workday. Then ask what happens when you're late.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many daycares are in Port Perry?
Nine listings under eight distinct operators, and one of those is a school-age programme. The realistic count of full-day options is closer to six.
Which Port Perry daycare is best rated?
Helping Hands Daycare leads on both score and volume, at 4.7 stars across twenty-one reviews. Three of the six rated providers clear 4.5.
How does Port Perry compare with Ontario overall?
The town average is 4.45 stars against an Ontario average of 4.46. That difference is well inside ordinary variation.
Which Port Perry providers take infants?
Every listing is blank on age groups, which is standard for Ontario. Eight of the nine have a phone number, so it is a manageable set of calls.
How does fee subsidy work in Port Perry?
All nine participate in the Canada-Wide system, which reduces posted fees. Income-tested fee subsidy is administered separately by Durham Region, and families often miss that second piece.
How many daycares in Port Perry publish their opening hours?
8 of the 9 licensed programmes MapleCub has on file in Port Perry publish their hours. The rest have not listed opening and closing times, so call to confirm.
Ask about spots near you
We email the centre and ask whether they have room for your child's age group. If they answer, we send you what they said. We don't hold live vacancy data, and centres aren't obliged to reply.
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