Trends · data through September 2026

Child Care Centers in the United States

Iceflower tracks 2,691 stores from 2,121 child care center chains in the United States. Discovery Point grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Global Learning Preschool and Kiddie Academy.

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
2,121
Tracked stores
2,691
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked child care center 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. Discovery Point and Global Learning Preschool sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Discovery Point ▲7 +19.3%
2 Global Learning Preschool - +14.4%
3 Kiddie Academy ▲1 +13.8%
4 Head Start ▲1 +10.9%
5 A Place to Grow ▲3 +8.3%
6 Little Bear ▲5 +8.1%
7 Lil' Rascals Academy ▲6 +7.5%
8 Little Treasures Learning Center ▲3 +5.2%
9 Kids Place ▲4 +4.9%
10 Country Home Learning Center ▲5 0.0%
11 A Child's World ▲4 -0.5%
12 Kids 'R' Kids ▲1 -0.7%
13 Finding Me Now Learning Center ▲3 -1.8%
14 Kids Academy ▲5 -2.0%
15 Kiwi's Clubhouse ▲2 -3.3%
  • Childcare Network
  • Kids 'R' Kids
  • Child Development Center
  • Kiddie Academy
  • The Goddard School
  • Kid City USA
  • Hoop Cares, LLC
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,691 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 266 of the 2,691 stores (10%); 1,991 of the 2,121 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Childcare Network (117)
  • Kids 'R' Kids (31)
  • Child Development Center (6)
  • Kiddie Academy (31)
  • The Goddard School (21)
  • Kid City USA (19)
  • Hoop Cares, LLC (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Childcare Network 117
  • 2 La Petite Academy 66
  • 3 Kids 'R' Kids 31
  • 4 Kiddie Academy 31
  • 5 The Goddard School 21
  • 6 KidsPark 20
  • 7 Kid City USA 19
  • 8 Childtime 17
  • 9 Primrose Schools 14
  • 10 Adventure Kids Playcare 14
  • 11 Champions 13
  • 12 Tutor Time 12
  • 13 The Learning Tree 8
  • 14 Discovery Point 7
  • 15 Grace Community School 6
  • 16 All About Kids 6
  • 17 The Learning Experience 6
  • 18 Growing Kids Learning Center 6
  • 19 Child Development Center 6
  • 20 Handprints Academy 5
  • 21 Youthland Academy 5
  • 22 Little Lukes 5
  • 23 Head Start 5
  • 24 Kids Place 4
  • 25 Lil' Rascals Academy 4
  • 26 Global Learning Preschool 4
  • 27 A Child's World 4
  • 28 Cornerstone Preschool 4
  • 29 Little Bear 4
  • 30 A Place to Grow 3
  • 31 Country Home Learning Center 3
  • 32 Kiwi's Clubhouse 3
  • 33 Busy Bees 3
  • 34 Little Treasures Learning Center 3
  • 35 New Beginnings Child Care 3
  • 36 Kids Academy 3
  • 37 Tree House Academy 3
  • 38 Lionheart Children's Academy 3
  • 39 Finding Me Now Learning Center 3
  • 40 For Kids Only Child Development Center 2
  • 41 Peachtree Learning Center 2
  • 42 Good Shepherd Episcopal School 2
  • 43 Neighborhood House 2
  • 44 Building Blocks Learning Center 2
  • 45 Little Bears PreSchool 2
  • 46 Mango's Place 2
  • 47 Kamaaina Kids 2
  • 48 Kids Kampus 2
  • 49 Family Affair Child Care 2
  • 50 Carelot Children's Center 2

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