Highlights
- Every week, 11.0% of gross sales goes to the franchisor before rent, food or labor: royalty 7% of Gross Receipts of the School, advertising 4% of Gross Receipts.p.29
- The Goddard School discloses unit performance in Item 19.p.102
- The system went from 598 outlets at the start of 2023 to 665 at the end of 2025, a net gain of 67.p.140
- Item 3 discloses 1 matter.p.22
Tools, from this filing's numbers
What The Goddard School takes off the top
Royalty 7% of Gross Receipts of the School plus advertising 4% of Gross Receipts, applied to your own sales estimate. The rates are the filing's; the sales are yours.
Preset to the filing's Item 19 figure, $2,507,631 a year.p.134
Total outlets, 2022 to 2025
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Fees (Items 5 and 6)
| Initial franchise fee, standard | $135,000 | p.22 |
| Royalty | 7% of Gross Receipts of the School | p.29 |
| Advertising fund | 4% of Gross Receipts | p.30 |
| Technology fee | held for review |
The filing lists every recurring and conditional fee in Item 6. The report carries all of them.
Estimated initial investment (Item 7)
| Expenditure | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial License Fee (1a) | $135,000 | $135,000 | p.42 |
| Initial Training and Opening Support Fee(2) | $35,000 | $42,000 | p.42 |
| Initial Marketing Fee (4) | $55,000 | $75,000 | p.42 |
| Site Development Fee (5) | $35,000 | $35,000 | p.42 |
| Background Check (6) (up to four individuals) | $1,500 | $6,000 | p.42 |
| Lease Deposit(7.a) | $25,000 | $50,000 | p.42 |
| Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment (8)(9)) | $243,000 | $307,000 | p.43 |
| Playground Equipment (10) | $140,000 | $240,000 | p.43 |
| Marketing Materials, Stationery, Forms, and Curricular Resources(8) | $15,000 | $15,000 | p.43 |
| Signs (8) | $28,000 | $28,000 | p.43 |
| Computer System, IT Security, network equipment / wireless access point devices, installation, Telephone System, Interactive Flat Panel and Digital Signage Package (8) (11) | $26,000 | $40,000 | p.43 |
| Total | None | None |
Revenue (Item 19)
The Goddard School reports a financial performance figure of $2,507,631 across 620 outlets.p.134 What the figure measures, which units were excluded and what it leaves out are in the report.
Units (Item 20)
| Type | Year | Start | End | Net | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| franchised | 2023 | 598 | 627 | 29 | p.140 |
| company owned | 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.140 |
| total | 2023 | 598 | 627 | 29 | p.140 |
| franchised | 2024 | 627 | 642 | 15 | p.140 |
| company owned | 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.140 |
| total | 2024 | 627 | 642 | 15 | p.140 |
| franchised | 2025 | 642 | 665 | 23 | p.140 |
| company owned | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.140 |
| total | 2025 | 642 | 665 | 23 | p.140 |
Litigation (Item 3)
1 pending case described.p.22 1 case brought by franchisees or former franchisees.p.22 Counts are of distinct matters as the filing describes them; the report carries each one in plain words.
Scorecard
Rank among the brands on this site that report the figure, on each list's own direction. No blended grade. How the lists work.
| Cost to open | held | held |
| Royalty plus ad fund | 11.0% | 44 of 54 |
| Three-year unit growth | 11.2% | 25 of 68 |
| Closure rate | held | held |
| Discloses unit revenue | yes | |
| Litigation disclosed | 1 | 29 of 61, 1 = most |
Source
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions franchise filing 641500, effective 4/30/2026, expires 4/30/2027. Extracted 2026-09-05 by two independent readers; only figures both agreed on, whose quoted words appear on the cited page, are shown. 14 fields held for review. How this works.