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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abrakadoodle | $39,214 – $83,064 | ✓ | 2.9% | Medium |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Centers | $127,316 – $165,846 | — | 1.5% | Medium |
| Mathnasium Learning Centers | $127,316 – $165,846 | — | 1.5% | Medium |
| Mobius | $1,924,000 – $4,837,500 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Musicologie | $190,081 – $386,513 | ✓ | — | Low |
| My Lil Town | — | — | — | Medium |
| NAofA | — | — | — | Medium |
| New Mom School | $132,630 – $221,100 | ✓ | — | Low |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | $78,045 – $126,756 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Story Time Chess | $65,579 – $87,227 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Super Soccer Stars | $70,350 – $102,250 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
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. Celebree 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 123 child care & education franchises we track is $134,630 (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?
78 of 123 child care & education franchises (63%) 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 61 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). 18 of the 104 with net-change data shrank in the latest reported year.
Which child care & education franchise fits your budget?
123 child care & education franchises is a long list. Tell us your budget and state and we'll send you the 5–10 that fit, ranked by earnings disclosure, growth and closure rate from their own FDDs.
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.