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Transparency scorecard

Pennsylvania

Grade A

85/100 points · Ranked #4 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Pennsylvania DHS, Office of Child Development and Early Learning.

Score breakdown

Record depth
About 6 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.
25/25
Downloadable data
Bulk export, open data, or equivalent machine-readable dump available.
20/20
Severity levels
State does not publish a usable severity/risk tier for citations.
0/15
Complaints published
Complaint records with dispositions (4,125 on file).
15/15
% with any inspection
98.9% of providers have at least one inspection on file (6,492 of 6,561).
15/15
Access friction
No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.
10/10

Socrata roster plus COMPASS history; citations are per regulation checked.

What this grade means

Does well: Downloadable roster and deep COMPASS history.

Where it falls short: No severity tiers; one row per cited regulation inflates counts.

Browse Pennsylvania providers on KinderFax. Official portal: COMPASS Find Child Care. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.