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Licensed daycares in 70601 — Lake Charles, LA
There are 16 licensed child care providers in the ZIP code: 70601 — 13 licensed centers and 3 family day homes. Together they have been cited for 12 violations across 66 inspections in the past three years, an average of 0.18 violations per inspection.
15 providers have 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 recordkeeping (5 citations), followed by health and medication (2). Worth knowing before you tour.
Every record below comes from Louisiana Department of Education, Division of Licensing and links back to the state's own document.
Compare all 16 providers
Clean record — no violations in 3 years
23 providers.
4 or more violations in 3 years
1 provider. A higher count isn't automatically a red flag — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.
Questions to ask when you tour in 70601
Recordkeeping is the most-cited issue among providers here, followed by health and medication. Providers with clean records will have ready answers.
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?
How do you maintain caregiver-to-child ratios during shift changes, lunch breaks, and pickup?
A note on Louisiana records
Louisiana 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. Louisiana does not publish complaint outcomes. We show everything the state makes public and link to the source for each item.
Data synced from Louisiana Department of Education, Division of Licensing on Jul 10, 2026. Source records · Report an error