Florida Child Care — DCF Official Data + Quality Signals

Extract structured, enriched data on every licensed child care provider in Florida — pulled directly from the official Department of Children & Families (DCF) registry, not scraped from Google Maps, Yelp, or third-party directories. ~11,800 providers, refreshed daily, 18 filters, and an optional county-level market intelligence report.

Pricing: $0.50 per run + $0.003 per result. A 100-lead pull costs about $0.80.

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Why this actor is different

Generic childcare scrapers pull from consumer platforms like Google Maps or Yelp — sources that are incomplete, stale, or inconsistently formatted. This actor goes straight to the official Florida government source: the DCF Excel registry, regenerated daily by the state. Every raw record is then enriched with computed intelligence fields that don't exist anywhere else: a quality tier signal, license health status, facility size band, national accreditation flag, and years in operation.

What you get

Each result includes the raw DCF fields plus computed enrichment:

• Provider name, physical address, city, ZIP, county, and phone
• DCF license number, program type, and license status
• Director name and provider status
• Licensed capacity and size band (micro, small, medium, large)
• Gold Seal, VPK, Head Start, and national accreditation flags
• Computed qualitySignal tier (Alta / Media / Basica)
• licenseHealth status and yearsInOperation

Who uses this

• EdTech and childcare platforms building Florida provider directories
• Enrollment agencies generating qualified leads by county
• Real estate and relocation services answering "where's the nearest quality daycare?"
• Policy researchers analyzing childcare access and quality gaps by region
• Investors and franchise operators identifying underserved markets

Key features — 18 filters

• Location — county, city, ZIP code, or name contains
• Quality — Gold Seal only, VPK only, Head Start only, nationally accredited only, or quality signal tier (Alta / Media / Basica)
• License — active license only, license status, program type
• Size — min/max licensed capacity, infant care only
• Data quality — minimum record completeness score
• Sorting — by capacity, name, county, completeness, years in operation, or service count, ascending or descending
• Output control — limit results from 1 to unlimited

Market intelligence report

Enable includeMarketAnalysis to get a county-level summary alongside your data: total capacity, quality-tier distribution, infant care gaps, and underserved-market opportunity signals.

Example input

{
  "county": "Miami-Dade",
  "goldSealOnly": false,
  "vpkOnly": false,
  "limit": 100,
  "includeMarketAnalysis": true
}

FAQ

How fresh is the data? The source Excel file is regenerated daily by Florida DCF — every run pulls the current version, not a cached snapshot.

Is this official data? Yes. It comes directly from the Florida DCF child care provider registry, not from Google Maps, Yelp, or third-party aggregators.

Can I combine filters? Yes — all 18 filters can be combined in a single run to build precise, targeted lists.

What does a 100-lead pull cost? About $0.80 total ($0.50 run charge + $0.003 per result).