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Child care & education franchises — the FDD facts
Every child care & education franchise in our corpus, on the numbers their own FDDs put on record — what it costs to open, whether the franchisor discloses earnings, how many outlets close, and the risk signals. Not marketing copy.
| Franchise | Total investment | Item 19 | Closure rate | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advantage College Planning | $69,815 – $99,575 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Afficient Academy | $46,630 – $141,540 | — | — | Medium |
| Allstars Camp | $114,500 – $265,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Amazing Athletes | $74,550 – $100,550 | ✓ | 3.2% | Low |
| America's Music School; Bach to Rock | $259,100 – $574,000 | ✓ | 2.1% | Low |
| Apex Fun Run | $86,000 – $134,700 | ✓ | 4.8% | Medium |
| Aqua-Tots Swim Schools | $1,619,820 – $2,939,590 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Bella Ballerina | $115,500 – $196,250 | — | — | Medium |
| Best Brains | $49,850 – $134,300 | — | — | Medium |
| Best In Class Education Center | $39,875 – $101,000 | ✓ | 2.8% | Low |
| Bitcoin STEM | $48,000 – $70,500 | — | — | Medium |
| Bricks 4 Kidz | — | ✓ | 2.2% | Medium |
| British Swim School | $95,200 – $176,050 | ✓ | 3.5% | Low |
| Brooklyn Robot Foundry | — | — | — | Medium |
| Building Kidz | $327,000 – $1,543,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Casa de Corazon | $1,014,800 – $5,357,600 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| CEFA Early Years School | $1,895,300 – $2,635,200 | — | — | Medium |
| Celebree Schools | $1,023,550 – $1,404,100 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Challenge Island | $58,465 – $74,050 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Children's Art Classes | $99,568 – $209,710 | ✓ | 33.3% | Low |
| Children's Art Classes | $149,268 – $294,110 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Class 101 | $83,700 – $138,300 | ✓ | 1.4% | Low |
| Club Z! | $40,975 – $57,425 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Code Ninjas | $174,250 – $265,750 | ✓ | 2.1% | Medium |
| Code Wiz | $145,300 – $239,900 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| CompuChild | $39,900 – $64,900 | — | — | Medium |
| Creative Kids Movement Network | $35,315 – $47,350 | ✓ | — | Low |
| deepak mudakavi | — | — | 10% | High |
| Drama Kids | $43,500 – $54,500 | ✓ | 4.9% | Low |
| Elite Tutoring Place | $62,000 – $128,500 | — | 20% | Medium |
| Engenius Learning Centers | $40,000 – $350,000 | — | — | Medium |
| Engineering for Kids | $71,200 – $139,750 | ✓ | 4.3% | Medium |
| Eye Level | — | — | 2.5% | Medium |
| FC Company, LLC (E-PLEX) | — | — | — | Medium |
| Flour Power Business Development | $189,700 – $405,800 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Freckled Frog Dance Studio | — | — | — | Medium |
| Freedom Learning | $168,175 – $395,300 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Genius Kids | $276,300 – $909,000 | — | 4.2% | Medium |
| Global Art Creative USA | $101,700 – $153,800 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Goldfish Swim School | $1,663,263 – $3,746,733 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Gymboree Play & Music Center | $56,250 – $95,800 | ✓ | 4.9% | High |
| Haolin Education | $58,500 – $99,000 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Haven | — | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Hawks Kids | $87,500 – $203,700 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| HSID | $115,700 – $584,700 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Hudson Valley Swim | $73,230 – $92,290 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Hummingbird Music School | $53,102 – $99,222 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Huntington Learning Center | $191,992 – $340,632 | ✓ | 6.5% | Medium |
| ICODE | $82,000 – $170,000 | ✓ | 10.6% | Medium |
| Idea Lab Kids | $163,000 – $465,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Imagine Arts Academy | $123,050 – $161,700 | — | 3.7% | Medium |
| Ivy Kids Systems | $4,739,500 – $5,796,800 | ✓ | 8.3% | Medium |
| Ivybrook Academy | $643,400 – $1,174,500 | ✓ | 2.5% | Low |
| JEI Learning Center | $85,000 – $139,000 | — | — | High |
| Jovie | $129,649 – $204,899 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| JSSF | $64,580 – $72,298 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Kid's Haven | $323,500 – $6,415,000 | — | — | Medium |
| Kidcreate; Wonderplay; Extreme Art | $165,235 – $472,540 | ✓ | 8.3% | Low |
| Kiddie Academy Educational Child Care | $590,000 – $1,010,000 | ✓ | 0.9% | Medium |
| KidoKinetics | $110,500 – $144,700 | ✓ | 2.8% | Medium |
| KidsPark | $293,250 – $516,500 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| KidzArt, Club Scientific and Co-Branded KidzArt/Club Scientific | $58,350 – $71,750 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Kinderdance International | $18,250 – $22,425 | — | — | Medium |
| Kinderdance International Inc. (Kindermotion) | $24,400 – $27,175 | — | — | Medium |
| Kumon | $101,630 – $233,780 | — | 1.4% | Medium |
| LearningRx Training Center | $77,000 – $223,000 | ✓ | 4.3% | Medium |
| Legends | $37,000 – $76,000 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Lightbridge Academy | $834,868 – $2,609,735 | ✓ | 3.2% | Low |
| Lil' Angels Photography | $41,263 – $45,780 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Lil' Kickers | $24,450 – $64,785 | ✓ | 2.4% | Low |
| Little Diggers | — | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Little Kitchen Academy | — | ✓ | 100% | Low |
| Little Medical School | $72,550 – $93,550 | — | 6.7% | Medium |
| Little School of Music | $335,443 – $440,318 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Mad Science | $127,050 – $185,859 | ✓ | 1.7% | Low |
| Magikid | $144,850 – $242,100 | — | 6.7% | Medium |
| Marigold Academy | $956,900 – $1,095,100 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Mathnasium Learning Centers | $127,316 – $165,846 | — | 1.5% | Medium |
| MindChamps; MindChamps International PreSchool | $726,230 – $1,183,656 | — | — | Medium |
| Mobius | $1,924,000 – $4,837,500 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Montessori Kids Universe | $883,658 – $1,844,008 | ✓ | 5.3% | Medium |
| Musicologie | $190,081 – $386,513 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| My Gym & | $240,800 – $425,600 | — | 3.1% | Medium |
| My Lil Town | — | — | — | Medium |
| NAofA | — | — | — | Medium |
| New Mom School | $67,335 – $105,982 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Nutty Scientists | $45,500 – $53,800 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Oksana Enrichment | $55,400 – $66,300 | — | — | Medium |
| One River School | $179,500 – $568,100 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Overtime | $46,400 – $58,500 | — | 14.8% | High |
| Parker-Anderson Enrichment | $45,506 – $141,120 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Phase Family Center | $287,500 – $1,634,390 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Play Street Museum | $482,741 – $759,920 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| PreEminent Learning Centers | $34,250 – $70,000 | — | — | Medium |
| Prep Academy Tutors | $52,600 – $65,600 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Prepaze Academy Franchises | $154,000 – $308,500 | — | — | Medium |
| Primrose Schools | $2,202,500 – $8,010,300 | ✓ | 385.7% | Low |
| Reading Readiness | $71,700 – $92,000 | ✓ | — | Low |
| RoboThink | — | — | 8.3% | Medium |
| Rockstars of Tomorrow | $195,500 – $472,000 | — | 0% | Medium |
| S.p.e.c. | $577,800 – $2,018,800 | ✓ | 2.9% | Low |
| School is Easy Tutoring Business | $41,400 – $58,850 | — | 100% | High |
| School of Rock | — | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Scoops Lacrosse | $46,295 – $57,798 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Singers Company | $4,650 – $31,750 | — | 3.3% | Medium |
| Skyhawks | $64,800 – $96,750 | ✓ | 1.3% | Medium |
| Snapology | $74,950 – $105,600 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Soccer Shots | $42,950 – $54,300 | ✓ | 0.3% | Medium |
| SpiderSmart | $79,900 – $139,400 | — | — | Medium |
| Steamoji | $197,063 – $487,913 | — | — | Medium |
| Stemtree | $90,700 – $195,300 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Sticky Fingers Cooking | $77,528 – $125,379 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Story Time Chess | $65,579 – $87,227 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Super Soccer Stars | $70,350 – $102,250 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Sylvan Learning | $117,600 – $288,400 | ✓ | 11.6% | High |
| The Fashion Class | — | ✓ | — | Low |
| The Goddard School | $1,003,500 – $1,503,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| The Ivy Review | $27,072 – $56,663 | — | — | Medium |
| The Learning Experience and | $188,524 – $313,524 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| The Little Gym | $420,324 – $722,773 | ✓ | 2.3% | Medium |
| The Tutoring Center® | $86,510 – $169,475 | ✓ | 6.8% | Low |
| theCoderSchool | $77,700 – $193,950 | ✓ | 1.8% | Low |
| Tierra Encantada | — | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Tippi Toes | $68,884 – $164,060 | ✓ | 3.9% | Low |
| Tumbles | — | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Tutoring Club | $88,750 – $162,650 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Tutu School | $124,000 – $272,000 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Twinkle Star Dance | $124,050 – $196,350 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Valhallan | $82,950 – $329,850 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Water Babies | $102,650 – $164,217 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Water Wings Swim School | $1,033,500 – $1,469,700 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| We Rock the Spectrum Kid's Gym for All Kids | $178,525 – $388,425 | — | 4.2% | Medium |
| Webby Dance Company | $31,140 – $48,185 | — | 0% | Medium |
| WePlay Music | $357,350 – $630,000 | — | — | Medium |
| Wild Roots | $232,500 – $811,000 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Wize Computing Academy | $47,000 – $78,000 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| WorldKids School | $378,385 – $620,385 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| XP League | $82,650 – $110,800 | — | 4% | Medium |
| YEL! Youth Enrichment League | $57,300 – $83,050 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Young Chefs and | $238,735 – $563,164 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Young Rembrandts | $46,650 – $60,100 | ✓ | 2.1% | Medium |
Figures as disclosed in each brand's most recent registered FDD. “—” means the FDD does not disclose it or the table did not parse cleanly — never an estimate. Tap any brand for the full breakdown. New to the term? What is Item 19? — the earnings disclosure, in plain English.
Child services & education franchise rankings
Child services & education franchises — frequently asked
What is the best child care & education franchise?
"Best" is a claim the FDD numbers have to back: we rank child care & education brands that disclose Item 19 earnings AND beat the category's median closure rate. Aqua-Tots Swim Schools currently tops that list with a 0% franchised-outlet closure rate; 15 child care & education brands qualify. See Best child care & education franchises by the FDD numbers.
How much does a child care & education franchise cost?
The median total initial investment across the 141 child care & education franchises we track is $143,000 (FDD Item 7); individual brands range widely — the table on this page shows each one. The lowest-cost brands are ranked in Cheapest child care & education franchises to open.
Which child care & education franchises disclose earnings?
94 of 141 child care & education franchises (67%) make an Item 19 financial performance representation in their most recent FDD — franchisor-disclosed unit earnings, not estimates. See Child care & education franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings.
What is the failure rate of child care & education franchises?
Across the 72 child care & education brands with parsed outlet tables, the median franchised-outlet closure rate is 2.5% (FDD Item 20 — closures, terminations and non-renewals, the closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate). 22 of the 119 with net-change data shrank in the latest reported year.
The full report on any child care & education brand: risk level, actual Item 19 earnings (where disclosed), every figure ranked against child care & education peers, litigation and churn detail.
One sponsored slot per category, and it's data-gated: a brand must disclose Item 19 earnings and beat the category's median closure rate to hold it. Sponsorship is always labeled and never changes a ranking, a risk read, or a report — the data on this site is not for sale. Franchisor inquiries: ryan@franchisefactsreport.com.