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Hawks Kids franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

Hawks Kids Inc.

Everything below is free, read straight off Hawks Kids's registered filing, with where the numbers land against child services & education peers. Weighing Hawks Kids against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Hawks Kids's most recent FDD (registered 2025). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-33598 — check it yourself. See every other California-registered franchise.

How much does a Hawks Kids franchise make?

Hawks Kids is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $626,836 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every child services & education brand that discloses earnings in the Child care & education franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Hawks Kids franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Hawks Kids's 6% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Hawks Kids franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Hawks Kids franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $626,836 of revenue, a 6% royalty alone is about $37,610 a year before any other cost.

Hawks Kids lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Hawks Kids's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Hawks Kids closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Hawks Kids will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Hawks Kids's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a child services & education of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Hawks Kids's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Hawks Kids?

Hawks Kids's franchise is offered by Hawks Kids Inc. — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at CA DFPI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Child services & education franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Hawks Kids is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

Hawks Kids franchise — frequently asked