Education · registry year 2024 · HQ GA
Primrose Schools Franchise
A Primrose School Franchising brand operating in the education sector, franchising since 1988. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Primrose Schools, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $700K – $1.7M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 7.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 500
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $2.5M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry primrose-schools Primrose Schools
Primrose Schools needs $700K–$1.7M to open and charges a 7.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical education franchise.
- LO $700K
- HI $1.7M
- FEE $80K
- ROY 7.0%
- UNT 500
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #45/223
- UNT# #144/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Goddard School ($721K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Primrose Schools (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 Primrose Schools's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 4.0% net unit growth (YoY) 65/100 · 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 Primrose Schools's investment ranks nationally
Primrose Schools's listed Item 7 low of $700K 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.
Primrose Schools vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$700,000 Higher than most higher than 79% 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
- $80K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $2.5M
- 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
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Education
- Subsector
- childcare
- Founded
- 1982
- Franchising Since
- 1988
- Headquarters
- GA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Primrose Schools
This Primrose Schools page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Primrose Schools.
Higher-band investment fields for Primrose Schools
Signature read: 500 locations · Item 7 low $700K
Primrose Schools, a Primrose School Franchising franchise, has been franchising since 1988 - 6 years after the concept was founded in 1982 , currently with 500 total locations (500 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the education sector, headquartered in GA. The registry records a total initial investment between $700K and $1.7M, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $80K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
The brand charges 7.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties, plus a 2.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 9.0%. Primrose Schools 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 $2.5M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $175K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Primrose Schools's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 4.0% net rate over the past year (30 openings, 10 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for Primrose Schools: Understanding FDDs , Primrose Schools 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 Primrose Schools's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Primrose Schools , both outside HQ state GA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($700K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (500 here).
What to do with this
Primrose Schools at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Primrose Schools scores 83/100 (B) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $700K – $1.7M entry cost runs above the typical education franchise.
- Ranks #45 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Goddard School sits at a comparable investment level ($721K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
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