The purposes of this research were to study and compare the administrative operation of  local administration municipality child development center as the community requirement : the case study of Thepparat municipality. The samples of this thesis were 136 parents of Thepparat municipality area whose children that the ages were not more than 4 years old. The  instruments  used  for  collecting  the  data  were  five  rating  scale  questionnaires. Statistical  analysis  were  frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA  and  Scheffe method.
The  research  results  revealed  that:
1. Child development center of  local administration was  operated  according  to  the community  requirement. both overall and  each  aspects were  at  high level, as buildings, environment and security, personnel and management,  academic curriculum and activities, and community  involvement  were  rated  by  mean  scores respectively.
2. Comparison of operating child development center of  local administration according community requirement  classified by gender in overall and each aspects were not significant difference, except the community involvement was statistically significant difference at the .05 level.
3. Comparison of operating child development center of local administration according to the community requirement classified by occupation  in overall and individual aspects were statistically significant difference at the .05 level.
