Maryland

Grade F

35/100 points · Ranked #41 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Maryland State Department of Education — Office of Child Care.

Score breakdown

Record depth

About 35 months of inspection history on file.

8/25

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 (809), but dispositions are limited or unmapped.

8/15

% with any inspection

22.0% of providers have at least one inspection on file (1,463 of 6,645).

4/15

Access friction

Partial barriers (gated PDFs, quotas, or incomplete structured fields).

5/10

Open-provider search; full PDF history requires extra download pass.

Where it falls short: Deep PDF history is not the default public path.

Browse Maryland providers on KinderFax. Official portal: Check Child Care Maryland. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.