Children’s Lighthouse Early Learning Schools™ promise to create a safe, fun, and happy place that gives children confidence, a sense of comfort today, and a lifelong love of learning, friendship, and community. Its proprietary curriculum helps children of all ages develop healthy brains, bodies and best behaviors.
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About Children's Lighthouse
From Day One, the Children's Lighthouse Early Learning School mission was built around one thing and one thing only: family. Today, as a leading early childhood education franchise dedicated to providing value-based care for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children, that family-driven mission guides every decision.
Children’s Lighthouse franchisees are passionate about enriching their communities through quality child care and education, aiming to make their schools an extension of each family’s home. Our franchisees say it is rewarding and fulfilling to create warm and welcoming schools that not only teach children but create happiness.
Children’s Lighthouse’s family-focused culture also extends to the operational model — owners looking for a business that will allow them to spend more time with their families, for example, can easily manage their center semi-absentee after the initial opening phase.
1999 (26 years)
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$2,003,082
Franchise Fees
$60,000
$35,000 Veteran's Fee
3.5% - 7.0%
Gross Revenues
0.5%
Gross Revenues
Why Children's Lighthouse?
Support is the name of the game for Children’s Lighthouse, which aims to foster that family-driven feeling across its entire franchise network. As a second-generation, family-owned company, franchisees can still call the leadership team. That is a big advantage.
Our family-driven culture permeates our entire organization, ensuring that everyone — from our office team to our franchise owners — upholds our mission statement, foundational views and core values.
Our culture represents a guiding light for younger generations to achieve a brighter future. Our Lighthouse Pathways® approach provides opportunities for individualized skill development, group learning, self-regulation, and inquiry-based investigation with a focus on 4 key areas; Confidence, Connection, Continuous Improvement, and Curriculum.
Ideal Candidate
A lot of our franchise owners want to do something that allows them to spend more time with their children and family, and our model meets that need by requiring minimal time in the centers.
Children’s Lighthouse’s franchise model is operationally simplistic, allowing franchisees to manage their business semi-absentee after the initial phase. Franchisees are trained to support their management team, and the model is designed so that the managers can handle the day-to-day operations of the business.
The franchise model encompasses the operational procedures and educational curriculum that have made Children’s Lighthouse a trusted name in child care. Franchisees who follow the model benefit from the collective 250-plus years of leadership team experience and expertise.
Franchisees hire a director to run the day-to-day. For the first year, franchisees should expect to work about 20 hours a week, and after the first year, they can reduce their time in the center down to 10 hours a week.
$1,074,580 - $8,985,630
$400,000
$750,000
Testimonials
“As a parent, you want a brand that is well-established and tested. These preschools all aim to achieve similar goals, but what sets this brand apart is the character value component of the curriculum — responsibility, honesty, humor, gratitude — these important life skills that are essential for children at this age. We are teaching them to read and write, but we are also creating little humans. I was impressed both as a parent and an educator. Last year, 45 of the 60 toddlers we taught were accepted into the gifted program at their school, which is a huge testament to the brand.” - said multi-unit franchisee Alexis Legg
“I honestly never thought I would be a business owner, and without all of the processes that Children’s Lighthouse has in place, I wouldn't have been able to do it. Over the past seven years, I've found that if you adhere to the established processes, there's a high likelihood of developing a well-rounded center that attracts families. Everything is planned out for you from start to finish. Everyone on the team has extensive experience, but this isn’t a big conglomerate. This is a family-owned business and they have been by our side every step of the way.” - said franchisee, Julie Carter
“The relationship with Children’s Lighthouse headquarters is a partnership. They trust us to understand our local markets better, and they listen when we suggest changes to fit local needs. It’s not adversarial — it’s collaborative." - said multi-unit franchisee Hubert Vaz-Nayak
