Education · registry year 2024 · HQ PA
Goddard School Franchise
A The Goddard School Educational brand operating in the education sector, franchising since 1988. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Goddard School, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $721K – $931K
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 7.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 600
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $2.2M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry goddard-school Goddard School
Goddard School needs $721K–$931K to open and charges a 7.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical education franchise.
- LO $721K
- HI $931K
- FEE $135K
- ROY 7.0%
- UNT 600
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #42/223
- UNT# #129/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Primrose Schools ($700K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Goddard School (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Goddard School's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 4.2% net unit growth (YoY) 67/100 · D
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Goddard School's investment ranks nationally
Goddard School's listed Item 7 low of $721K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Goddard School vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$721,000 Higher than most higher than 81% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $135K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 1.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $2.2M
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
15 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Education
- Subsector
- childcare
- Founded
- 1983
- Franchising Since
- 1988
- Headquarters
- PA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Goddard School
This Goddard School page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Goddard School.
Higher-band investment fields for Goddard School
Signature read: 600 locations · Item 7 low $721K
Goddard School, a The Goddard School Educational franchise, has been franchising since 1988 - 5 years after the concept was founded in 1983 , currently with 600 total locations (600 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the education sector, headquartered in PA. The listed total initial investment is $721K to $931K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $135K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Royalty payments here are set at 7.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 1.0% advertising-fund field, for a 8.0% arithmetic total. Goddard School has a recorded Item 19 financial-performance field; Item 19 disclosure is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $2.2M; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $154K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Goddard School's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 4.2% net rate over the past year (40 openings, 15 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.
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Related reading for Goddard School: Understanding FDDs , Goddard School lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Goddard School's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Goddard School , both outside HQ state PA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($721K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (600 here).
What to do with this
Goddard School at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Goddard School scores 84/100 (B) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $721K – $931K entry cost runs above the typical education franchise.
- Ranks #42 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Primrose Schools sits at a comparable investment level ($700K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
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Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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