Education · registry year 2024 · HQ ON
Tutor Doctor Franchise
A Tutor Doctor Inc brand operating in the education sector, franchising since 2003. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Tutor Doctor, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $65K – $120K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 8.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 800
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $200K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry tutor-doctor Tutor Doctor
Tutor Doctor needs $65K–$120K to open and charges a 8.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical education franchise.
- LO $65K
- HI $120K
- FEE $51K
- ROY 8.0%
- UNT 800
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #185/223
- UNT# #111/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Sylvan Learning ($71K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Tutor Doctor (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 Tutor Doctor's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 3.8% net unit growth (YoY) 62/100 · 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 Tutor Doctor's investment ranks nationally
Tutor Doctor's listed Item 7 low of $65K 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.
Tutor Doctor vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$65,000 Among the lowest lower than 84% 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
- $51K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $200K
- 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
20 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Education
- Subsector
- tutoring
- Founded
- 2000
- Franchising Since
- 2003
- Headquarters
- ON
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Tutor Doctor
This Tutor Doctor page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Tutor Doctor.
Lower-band investment fields for Tutor Doctor
Signature read: 800 locations · Item 7 low $65K
Tutor Doctor, a Tutor Doctor Inc franchise, has been franchising since 2003 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 2000 , currently with 800 total locations (800 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the education sector, headquartered in ON. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $65K to $120K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $51K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
The brand charges 8.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties with a separate 2.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 10.0%. Tutor Doctor 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 $200K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $16K, 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.
Network momentum is currently positive: Tutor Doctor added units at a 3.8% net rate year-over-year (50 openings, 20 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 Tutor Doctor: Understanding FDDs , Tutor Doctor 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 Tutor Doctor's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Tutor Doctor , both outside HQ state ON : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($65K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (800 here).
What to do with this
Tutor Doctor at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Tutor Doctor scores 81/100 (B) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $65K – $120K entry cost runs below the typical education franchise.
- Ranks #185 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Sylvan Learning sits at a comparable investment level ($71K) 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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