Trends · data through September 2026

Specialty Schools in Florida

Iceflower tracks 414 stores from 390 specialty school chains in Florida. Southern Technical College grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Fred Astaire Dance Studios and School of Rock.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
390
Tracked stores
414
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked specialty school chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Southern Technical College and Fred Astaire Dance Studios sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Southern Technical College - +6.0%
2 Fred Astaire Dance Studios - -16.9%
3 School of Rock - -26.6%
  • ITT Technical Institute
  • Melbourne Flight Training
  • Fred Astaire Dance Studios
  • Epic Flight Academy
  • A-Cent Aviation
  • Southern Technical College
  • Arthur Murray Dance Studio
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

414 tracked store locations in Florida. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 20 of the 414 stores (5%); 376 of the 390 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked other stores here are specialty schools, the same share as across the United States.

  • ITT Technical Institute (1)
  • Melbourne Flight Training (1)
  • Fred Astaire Dance Studios (5)
  • Epic Flight Academy (1)
  • A-Cent Aviation (1)
  • Southern Technical College (5)
  • Arthur Murray Dance Studio (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Fred Astaire Dance Studios 5
  • 2 Southern Technical College 5
  • 3 School of Rock 4
  • 4 Empire Beauty School 3
  • 5 Arthur Murray Dance Studio 3
  • 6 Bene's Career Academy 2
  • 7 Summit Salon Academy 2
  • 8 Aveda Institute 2
  • 9 Artistic Nails and Beauty Academy 2
  • 10 Paul Mitchell The School 2
  • 11 The Salon Professional Academy 2
  • 12 Celebrity School of Beauty 2
  • 13 The Florida Ballet 1
  • 14 Comedy Traffic School Ocala 1
  • 15 Nieves Music Studio 1
  • 16 Attitudes In Dance 1
  • 17 Brevard Ballet Academy 1
  • 18 Bayou Dance Club 1
  • 19 Dance Center International 1
  • 20 Ruby's Academy for Health Occupations 1
  • 21 Ramblin Rhodes Music 1
  • 22 Academy of Cosmetology 1
  • 23 Key West Cooking School 1
  • 24 Manatee School for the Arts 1
  • 25 North Florida Cosmetology Institute 1
  • 26 Magic Dance Club 1
  • 27 Diamond Cheer & Dance 1
  • 28 Sarasota School of Glass 1
  • 29 Elevate Dance Company 1
  • 30 ALIST Dance Company 1
  • 31 PC Professor - West Palm Beach 1
  • 32 ABC Bartending School 1
  • 33 Manatee Technical College 1
  • 34 The Advanced Academy 1
  • 35 Finlay Institute of Nursing 1
  • 36 Space Coast Education Center 1
  • 37 Kendall Conservatory of Music 1
  • 38 Steps School of Dance 1
  • 39 Florida Academy HVAC 1
  • 40 American Trucking 1
  • 41 Ron Kaye's Music Instruction 1
  • 42 Next Level Dance Studio 1
  • 43 Uceda School of Orlando 1
  • 44 Taste Buds Kitchen 1
  • 45 Daytona College 1
  • 46 Florida Dance Workshop 1
  • 47 Village Music Wellington 1
  • 48 South Beach Dance Inc 1
  • 49 The Dance Lounge FL 1
  • 50 Soothing Arts Healing Therapies 1

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