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Transparency scorecard

Massachusetts

Grade D

53/100 points · Ranked #29 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.

Score breakdown

Record depth
About 7 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.
25/25
Downloadable data
Data is reachable via a public search form or portal API, not a bulk dump.
10/20
Severity levels
State does not publish a usable severity/risk tier for citations.
0/15
Complaints published
Complaint rows exist (6,667), but dispositions are limited or unmapped.
8/15
% with any inspection
0.0% of providers have at least one inspection on file (0 of 9,104).
0/15
Access friction
No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.
10/10

Large inspection history corpus; no severity tiers.

What this grade means

Does well: Deep inspection and citation volume.

Where it falls short: No per-violation severity tiers.

Browse Massachusetts providers on KinderFax. Official portal: Licensed Child Care Search. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.