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Licensed daycares in 40517 — Lexington, KY
There are 21 licensed child care providers in the ZIP code: 40517 — 16 licensed centers and 5 family day homes. Together they have been cited for 396 violations across 135 inspections in the past three years, an average of 2.93 violations per inspection, which is above the Lexington average of 2.51.
One provider has a clean three-year record — inspected regularly, never cited. No facility in this ZIP code currently holds a revoked or suspended license.
The most-cited issue here is physical safety (68 citations), followed by recordkeeping (47). Worth knowing before you tour.
Every record below comes from Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Division of Child Care and links back to the state's own document.
Compare all 21 providers
1–3 violations in 3 years
3 providers. Most citations here are paperwork and routine issues — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.
4 or more violations in 3 years
17 providers. A higher count isn't automatically a red flag — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.
Questions to ask when you tour in 40517
Physical safety is the most-cited issue among providers here, followed by recordkeeping. Providers with clean records will have ready answers.
When was your last playground and facility safety check, and what did it find?
What records do you keep on staff training and child incidents, and how are they reviewed?
How do you log medication administration, and who verifies it?
A note on Kentucky records
Kentucky does not publish a severity classification for violations, so we can't tell you which citations were most serious — only what was cited and whether it was corrected. Kentucky does not publish complaint outcomes. We show everything the state makes public and link to the source for each item.
Data synced from Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Division of Child Care on Jul 11, 2026. Source records · Report an error