Education · registry year 2024 · HQ MD
Kiddie Academy Franchise
A Kiddie Academy Domestic Franchising brand operating in the education sector, franchising since 1992. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Kiddie Academy, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $491K – $900K
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 7.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 300
- Total locations · Small network
- $2.0M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry kiddie-academy Kiddie Academy
Kiddie Academy needs $491K–$900K to open and charges a 7.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical education franchise.
- LO $491K
- HI $900K
- FEE $100K
- ROY 7.0%
- UNT 300
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #58/223
- UNT# #176/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: School of Rock ($431K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Kiddie Academy (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 Kiddie Academy's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 5.0% net unit growth (YoY) 76/100 · C
- 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 Kiddie Academy's investment ranks nationally
Kiddie Academy's listed Item 7 low of $491K 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.
Kiddie Academy vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$491,000 Around the middle lower than 26% 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
- $100K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $2.0M
- 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
5 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Education
- Subsector
- childcare
- Founded
- 1981
- Franchising Since
- 1992
- Headquarters
- MD
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Kiddie Academy
This Kiddie Academy page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Kiddie Academy.
Small-network FDD fields for Kiddie Academy
Signature read: 300 locations · Item 7 low $491K
Kiddie Academy, a Kiddie Academy Domestic Franchising franchise, has been franchising since 1992 - 11 years after the concept was founded in 1981 , currently with 300 total locations (300 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the education sector, headquartered in MD. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $491K to $900K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. A franchise-fee field of $100K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Ongoing royalties run 7.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 2.0% advertising-fund field, for a 9.0% arithmetic total. Kiddie Academy 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 $2.0M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $140K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Network momentum is currently positive: Kiddie Academy added units at a 5.0% net rate year-over-year (20 openings, 5 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Kiddie Academy: Understanding FDDs , Kiddie Academy 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 Kiddie Academy's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Kiddie Academy , both outside HQ state MD : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($491K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (300 here).
What to do with this
Kiddie Academy at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Kiddie Academy scores 88/100 (B) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $491K – $900K entry cost runs above the typical education franchise.
- Ranks #58 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- School of Rock sits at a comparable investment level ($431K) 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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