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Top 25 Child care franchises based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,546 child care franchises headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 56,045 professional contacts across them, including 5,864 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers child care franchises headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest child care franchises based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,348 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Transform lives-including yours-with the nation’s leading provider of early childhood education and child care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,746 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Primrose Schools® is a national franchise company that provides high-quality early education and care to children and families across America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,465 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Childcare Network was founded in 1988 in Columbus, Georgia with the initial acquisition of just two schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,878 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than 50 years of experience, we pride ourselves on being a trusted, supportive, reliable provider of early education and care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,440 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For more than five decades, Childtime has been a guiding light in the child care and early education field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 968 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tutor Time has been supporting working families in Florida since the 1980s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 906 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From the first hello of the day, to the last good-bye, we want every child to feel safe, nurtured, and excited to learn and grow with us, and for you to consider Lightbridge…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 860 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cadence Education is one of the nation’s premier early childhood educators, providing high-quality childcare and early learning programs including play-based, Montessori, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 648 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Children of America (COA): It’s A Special Recipe of People, Principles And Pride.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 578 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Children’s Courtyard was founded in Arlington, Texas, in 1986.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 536 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Rainbow Child Care Center is a leading provider of high-quality early education and child care services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 460 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An academically focused preschool for ages 6 weeks to 5 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kidango’s commitment is to ensure all children have access to the best opportunities for growth, focused on education and health.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 382 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Everbrook Academy was thoughtfully designed based on considerable industry experience, expertise, and insights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1994, Celebree School is a leader in early childhood education and childcare, providing infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children with a safe, nurturing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sheltering Arms Early Education & Family Centers is one of Atlanta’s largest, and most respected nonprofits, providing nationally-acclaimed, effective early education and child…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 306 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1988, Discovery Point has been committed to providing the best early childhood education possible to children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Doodle Bugs!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Nest Schools operates premium early childhood education across multiple states for infants through school-age children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creative World Schools are fun-filled, engaging places where children of all ages can explore their curiosity about the world!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kid City USA Enterprises offers unparalleled preschool, daycare, and before & after school programs nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creative Kids has been there to support Las Vegas families for more than 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sunrise Preschools is an early childhood education & childcare company, operating 29 preschool & childcare facilities throughout the greater Phoenix area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unleashed Brands currently includes portfolio brands Urban Air Adventure Park, The Little Gym, Sylvan Learning, Snapology, Class 101, Premier Martial Arts and Water Wings Swim…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Learning Tree provides an environment meant to exceed accreditation and licensing guidelines in nutrition, health and safety.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: child care franchises. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names child care franchises.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of child care franchises, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name child care franchises. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Child care franchises based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,546 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among child care franchises, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “child care franchises”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names child care franchises), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among child care franchises, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,864 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names child care franchises, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many child care franchises are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,546 child care franchises headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Kindercare Learning Companies, headquartered in Lake Oswego, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most child care franchises?
Houston leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by New York (14) and Chicago (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,864 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,546 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.