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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 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Afficient Academy | $46,630 – $141,540 | — | — | Medium |
| Allstars Camp | $114,500 – $265,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Amazing Athletes | $75,000 – $108,500 | ✓ | — | Low |
| America's Music School | Bach to Rock | $255,500 – $549,500 | ✓ | 2.3% | Low |
| Apex Fun Run | $86,000 – $134,700 | ✓ | 4.8% | Medium |
| Aqua-Tots Swim Schools | $1,619,820 – $2,939,590 | — | 1.7% | Medium |
| Bella Ballerina | $115,500 – $196,250 | — | — | Medium |
| Best Brains | $41,300 – $80,700 | — | — | Medium |
| Best In Class Education Center | $84,375 – $1,436,750 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Bitcoin STEM | $48,000 – $70,500 | — | — | Medium |
| Brain Balance Centers | $186,825 – $419,645 | ✓ | 6.8% | Medium |
| Bricks 4 Kidz | — | ✓ | 2.2% | Medium |
| Brooklyn Robot Foundry | — | — | — | Medium |
| Building Kidz | $266,000 – $1,287,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Casa de Corazon® | $738,000 – $3,911,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Challenge Island | $53,425 – $68,925 | — | 0.8% | Medium |
| CHILDREN'S ART CLASSES | Children's Art Classes | $99,568 – $209,710 | ✓ | 33.3% | Low |
| Club Z! | $40,975 – $57,425 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Code Ninjas | $177,000 – $385,500 | ✓ | 8.8% | Medium |
| Code Wiz | $145,300 – $239,900 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| College Nannies, Sitters & Tutors | Jovie | $107,000 – $163,000 | ✓ | 4.9% | Medium |
| CompuChild | $39,900 – $64,900 | — | — | Medium |
| deepak mudakavi deepak shahdokth | Safari Kid | Safari kid international LLC | safari kids franchising safari kids international | safarikidfranchise safari kid franchise LLC safari kids franchise safarikidsfranchise | — | — | 10% | High |
| Drama Kids | $43,500 – $64,500 | ✓ | 11.3% | Medium |
| Elite Tutoring Place | $62,000 – $128,500 | — | 20% | Medium |
| Engenius Learning Centers | $40,000 – $350,000 | — | — | 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 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Genius Kids | Genius Kids Club | The Lil Genius Kid | $276,300 – $909,000 | — | 4.2% | Medium |
| Global Art Creative USA | $101,700 – $153,800 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Goldfish Swim School | $2,594,033 – $5,995,981 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| GYMBOREE PLAY & MUSIC CENTER | Gymboree Play & Music Center® | $56,250 – $95,800 | ✓ | 4.9% | High |
| Haolin Education | $58,500 – $99,000 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Hawks Kids | $87,500 – $203,700 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Hsid | $115,700 – $584,700 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Hudson Valley Swim | $136,980 – $194,470 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Hummingbird Music School | $53,102 – $99,222 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| ICODE | iCode School | $301,425 – $432,925 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Idea Lab Kids | $163,000 – $465,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Imagine Arts Academy | — | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Ivy Kids Systems | $4,739,500 – $5,796,800 | ✓ | 8.3% | Medium |
| JSSF | $64,580 – $72,298 | ✓ | — | Low |
| Kid's Haven | $323,500 – $6,415,000 | — | — | Medium |
| Kidcreate | Kidcreate Studio | $118,990 – $330,895 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| KidoKinetics | $110,500 – $144,700 | ✓ | 2.8% | Medium |
| KidsPark | $293,250 – $516,500 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| KidStrong | $313,150 – $512,000 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Kidzart , Club Scientific Co-Branded Kidzart/Club Scientific | $58,350 – $71,750 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Kinderdance International | $18,250 – $22,425 | — | — | Medium |
| Kinderdance International Inc. (Kindermotion) | $24,400 – $27,175 | — | — | Medium |
| LearningRx Training Center | $77,000 – $223,000 | ✓ | 4.3% | Medium |
| Legends | $37,000 – $76,000 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Lightbridge Franchise Company | $412,500 – $2,100,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Lil' Angels Photography | $41,263 – $45,780 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Lil' Kickers | $24,450 – $64,490 | ✓ | 2.7% | Low |
| Little Kitchen Academy | — | ✓ | 100% | Low |
| Little Medical School | $38,200 – $226,900 | — | 3% | Medium |
| Little School of Music | Once Upon a Tune, LLC Little School of Music | $335,443 – $440,318 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Mad Science | $114,331 – $313,959 | — | 23.3% | High |
| Magikid | $144,850 – $242,100 | — | 6.7% | Medium |
| MindChamps | MindChamps International PreSchool | $673,507 – $1,074,293 | — | — | Medium |
| Montessori Kids Universe | $562,218 – $1,139,058 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| Musicologie | $192,000 – $372,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| My Gym | My Gym Children's Fitness Centers | — | — | 1.8% | 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 | — | 0% | 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® | $742,900 – $8,595,000 | ✓ | — | Low |
| PSM Worldwide | $304,650 – $760,640 | ✓ | 57.1% | Medium |
| Reading Readiness | $71,700 – $92,000 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| RoboThink | RoboThink | — | — | 8.3% | Medium |
| Rockstars of Tomorrow | $195,500 – $472,000 | — | 0% | Medium |
| S.P.E.C. LLC | The Salon Professional Academy | $577,800 – $2,018,800 | ✓ | 2.9% | Medium |
| SafeSplash Swim School | Streamline Brands | SwimLabs Swim School | Swimtastic Swim School | $58,500 – $84,250 | ✓ | — | Low |
| School is Easy Tutoring Business | $41,400 – $58,850 | — | 100% | High |
| School of Rock | $441,000 – $593,900 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Scoops Lacrosse | $46,295 – $57,798 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Singers Company | $4,650 – $31,750 | — | 3.3% | Medium |
| Skyhawks and SuperTots | $37,800 – $89,750 | ✓ | 1.5% | Low |
| Snapology | $75,250 – $105,800 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Soccer Stars | $72,800 – $106,300 | ✓ | 100% | Medium |
| Sos | $315,000 – $842,700 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| SpiderSmart | SpiderSmart Learning Centers | $79,900 – $139,400 | — | — | Medium |
| Steamoji | $197,063 – $487,913 | — | — | Medium |
| Sticky Fingers Cooking | $77,528 – $125,379 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| The Ivy Review | $27,072 – $56,663 | — | — | Medium |
| The Little Gym | $506,197 – $673,197 | ✓ | 1.7% | Medium |
| theCoderSchool | $77,700 – $193,950 | ✓ | 1.8% | Low |
| Tierra Encantada | — | ✓ | — | Medium |
| Tippi Toes | $67,100 – $83,500 | ✓ | 6.1% | Low |
| Tumbles | — | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Tutoring Club | Tutoring Club® | $88,750 – $162,650 | — | 0% | Medium |
| Tutu School | $103,900 – $178,300 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Twinkle Star Dance | $111,635 – $174,935 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Valhallan | $82,950 – $329,850 | ✓ | 0% | Medium |
| We Rock the Spectrum Kid's Gym for All Kids | WE ROCK THE SPECTRUM KID'S GYM FOR ALL KIDS | $165,517 – $332,156 | — | 5.4% | 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 |
| Wkaf | $195,000 – $291,500 | ✓ | — | Medium |
| XP League | $82,650 – $110,800 | — | 4% | Medium |
| YEL! Youth Enrichment League | $57,300 – $83,050 | ✓ | 0% | Low |
| Young Chefs and Young Chefs Academy | $267,400 – $399,900 | ✓ | 4.3% | Low |
| Young Rembrandts | $51,375 – $59,325 | ✓ | 0% | 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. Club Z! 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 117 child care & education franchises we track is $142,193 (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?
71 of 117 child care & education franchises (61%) 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 64 child care & education brands with parsed outlet tables, the median franchised-outlet closure rate is 1.8% (FDD Item 20 — closures, terminations and non-renewals, the closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate). 20 of the 96 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: [email protected].