Exhibit 8: Percentage of Children Enrolled in Each STAR Rating as of December 2024
STAR 4
42.4%
STAR 3
1.2%
STAR 2
19.8%
STAR 1
28.4%
N/A (Relative Provider)
8.2%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Note: The data includes children who were actively participating in the ACCM Pilot Program as of December 2024 ( n =257). These data include 10 children who were actively enrolled with multiple providers and are therefore included multiple times, once for each provider. Families missing information about their child’s provider are omitted. Child Care Schedules. About half (54 percent) of the children participating in the ACCM Pilot Program as of December 2024 enrolled in child care every weekday with full-time care. About one quarter (25 percent) were enrolled every weekday, but with part-time care. The remaining families (21 percent) were enrolled on other schedules, such as care provided on weekend days or care provided fewer than 5 days a week on weekdays. 12 Characteristics of Providers Participating in the Program Overall, 208 child care providers participated in the ACCM Pilot Program from the start of the ACCM Pilot Program in April 2022 through December 2024. 13 Most of the providers were child care centers (82 percent), while the remaining were relative care (9 percent), group child care homes (6 percent), and family child care homes (3 percent). These providers operated in 92 municipalities, accounting for 70 percent of the 130 municipalities that make up Allegheny County. Just over one-third of these providers were rated as STAR 4 in the Keystone STARS program for quality improvement (38 percent), about one- third were rated as STAR 1 (34 percent), one fifth as STAR 2 (20 percent), and a few as STAR 3 (4 percent). 14
12 Note: This calculation excludes 84 children that did not have child care schedule information. 13 The data set includes 18 relative care providers who participated in the ACCM Pilot Program at some point during its implementation. 14 These data exclude all relative care providers as they are not rated using the Keystone STAR system and seven additional providers that as of February 2025 were closed. STAR ratings were not provided for these programs.
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