Engineering For Kids franchise unit economics
Engineering For Kids franchisees run STEM enrichment businesses that sell engineering classes, camps and programs for school-age children inside a territory of schools.
Engineering For Kids in the news
- Engineering for Kids Expands Internationally to Muscat, Oman · Franchising.com ·
The Engineering For Kids headline above is the publisher's own and links to the publisher. Averan Advisors checked this Engineering For Kids link on 11 October 2026. Franchise news lists news on 95 brands, including Engineering For Kids. Engineering For Kids is in the STEM and Coding franchise guide.
Engineering For Kids franchise at a glance
Item 19 of Engineering For Kids’ 2026 FDD, issued 22 May 2026, reports that 14 of the 22 Engineering For Kids locations trading at the end of 2025 billed $75,000 or less, including 8 of the 16 open more than two years. An Engineering For Kids franchise costs $71,200 to $139,750 to open, including a $30,000 initial franchise fee.
- Engineering For Kids charges a royalty of 7% of sales, a 2% brand fund contribution and a $200 monthly technology fee.
- Engineering For Kids reported 22 franchised locations in its 2026 FDD.
- Work out Engineering For Kids's fees at your own sales with the minimum fee calculator.
These figures come from Engineering For Kids's 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, as the brand reported them, and were read by Averan Advisors.
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Talk to Averan → Move your books and accounting to Averan →- Fourteen of 22 locations billed $75,000 or less. That count includes 8 of the 16 open more than two years *, so time in the business alone moves this number very little.
- The royalty discount resets every month. 6% starts above $25,000 in a single month and 5% above $50,000, so a location billing $200,000 a year pays a flat 7% *.
- Even the largest location pays 6.52%. That holds at $575,000 spread evenly across the year *. The 5% rate needs more than $600,000, which is where the disclosed range stops.
- A $300 monthly minimum governs below $51,429 of annual sales *. It starts in month seven, so a slow first year is charged at a minimum.
- A school in your territory is worth $750 a year at the bottom group. An extra school costs $225 once *, so territory pays for itself in 3.6 months at even the lowest-selling run rate *.
How much does an Engineering For Kids franchise make?
The 2026 FDD for Engineering For Kids does not publish unit revenue in a form that answers this directly. It reports sales ranges for 22 franchised locations in 2025. 14 of the 22 Engineering For Kids locations billed $75,000 or less, including 8 of the 16 open more than two years. A standard Engineering For Kids territory covers about 100 K–8 schools.
Top performers
What separates the top Engineering For Kids performers
Engineering For Kids reports its 22 franchised locations in sales ranges instead of grouped averages. The highest-selling Engineering For Kids location billed between $550,001 and $600,000 in 2025. Fourteen of the 22 Engineering For Kids locations billed $75,000 or less. Both run the same brand, on the same agreement, paying the same fees.
Decided before you open
- Site and trade area.The top of the highest Engineering For Kids sales range, $600,000, is 8.0× the top of the lowest range, $75,000. Catchment, daytime population and neighboring businesses affect where a location falls.
- Capacity.Locations run 1,200 square feet. The build sets how much you can sell.
- Opening cost range.Opening costs $71,200 to $139,750, a 2.0× range inside one brand.
- Fees and the minimum.A minimum fee applies, so lower-selling locations pay a higher effective rate. Work out the sales level where the percentage overtakes the minimum.
Live operating levers
- Sales depend on sessions.The room holds a set number of people at a set time, so the owner works on how full each session runs.
Context you underwrite around
- Locations included.These figures cover all 22 franchised Engineering For Kids locations at the end of 2025, including the 6 open less than two years.
- What the filing does not include.Item 19 publishes no profit or cost data for franchised locations, no median, no attainment figure. Ask the franchisor or current owners for cost and profit figures.
Discounts available
- Engineering For Kids takes 10% off the standard territory fee for honorably discharged U.S. veterans.
- Engineering For Kids takes 10% off for existing franchisees in good standing with at least one year of operation who sign an additional agreement.
From Item 5 of the Engineering For Kids 2026 FDD. The costs on this page use the full initial franchise fee for one unit, before any discount.
Where the 22 sit
Gross sales by group, 2025
| Annual gross sales | Under 2 years old | Over 2 years old | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0 to $75,000 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| $125,001 to $175,000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| $175,001 to $225,000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| $275,001 to $350,000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| $350,001 to $425,000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| $425,001 to $550,000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| $550,001 to $600,000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 6 | 16 | 22 |
Every count and group is as the brand reported it, with the 22 locations equaling the full franchised count at the end of 2025.
Half the mature locations are in the same group as every new one. 8 of 16 open more than two years, alongside all 6 under two *, so the build-up either happens early or stops.
Eight mature locations range across six groups above $125,000. They run from $125,001 up to $600,000 *, and the distance between the top of the bottom group and the top of the range is roughly eight times.
The highest group closes at $600,000. No open-ended group sits above it, so $600,000 is as much as this picture can show.
Two gaps sit inside the printed groups. The columns skip $75,001 to $125,000 and $225,001 to $275,000. The counted locations still add to the full 22. So every location fell outside those two windows.
Costs, expenses and profit stay outside this picture. These are gross sales before wages, venue fees, materials and Franchise fees, so the bottom group is a revenue figure.
A discount inside a month
Royalty rate steps by monthly revenue
| Annual gross sales | A month * | Royalty a year * | Effective rate * |
|---|---|---|---|
| $75,000 | $6,250 | $5,250 | 7.00% |
| $200,000 | $16,667 | $14,000 | 7.00% |
| $400,000 | $33,333 | $27,000 | 6.75% |
| $575,000 | $47,917 | $37,500 | 6.52% |
The 7%, 6% and 5% groups and their monthly thresholds are as the brand reported it and the effective rates apply them to an even twelfth of each annual figure, marked *.
A location needs $25,000 in one month before it sees 6% on anything. That is $300,000 a year spread evenly *, a level that four or five of the 22 Engineering For Kids locations reach.
The 5% rate needs more than $600,000 a year spread evenly *. That is beyond the top of the disclosed range, so in practice it belongs to camp months.
Seasonality changes the fee here. An Engineering For Kids location billing $50,000 in a July camp month pays 7% on the first $25,000 and 6% on the next $25,000, or $3,250 *. The same $50,000 spread across months under $25,000 pays 7%, or $3,500 *.
The reduced rates require being current on royalty and brand fund payments. So falling behind costs the discount as well as the late fee, the greater of $25 or 1.5% a month.
Besides the royalty, Engineering For Kids charges a 2% brand fund and $200 a month of technology. Local advertising is the greater of 2% of gross sales or $100 a month, with the total advertising obligation capped at 4%.
The school is the unit
Revenue per school in the territory
| Location | Annual gross sales | A school a year * | Extra school payback * |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top of the bottom band | $75,000 | $750 | 3.6 months |
| Middle of the range | $200,000 | $2,000 | 1.4 months |
| Highest band | $575,000 | $5,750 | 0.5 months |
The 100-school territory and the $225 price for each extra school are as the brand reported it and the per-school figures divide sales by schools, marked *.
Adding a school costs 30% of what the lowest-selling location earns from one in a year. That is $225 against $750 *, the cheapest expansion available in this model by a wide margin.
The territory is measured in schools. A standard Engineering For Kids territory holds about 100 schools with grades between kindergarten and eighth, so the addressable market is a countable list, and you can name every one of them.
Exclusivity is absent, and the brand keeps the right to compete. What you get is an assigned area you sell inside, with referrals owed to whoever holds a neighboring one, so the protection is behavioural.
Open areas within 25 miles can be served until they are assigned. A program running in one must be handed over if that area is later assigned, so revenue from outside your schools is borrowed.
The gap between the bottom group and the top is $5,000 a school. That is $750 against $5,750 *.
Opening and the system
Units opened and closed, 2023 to 2025
| Year | Start | Opened | Non-renewed | Ceased, other | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 26 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 23 |
| 2024 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 23 |
| 2025 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 |
| Three years | n/a | 4 | 5 | 3 | n/a |
Every figure is as the brand reported it, with zero terminations, zero reacquisitions and zero company-owned outlets across all three years.
Four locations opened against eight exits *. Every exit came through non-renewal or an owner closing.
No Engineering For Kids location opened in 2025. The system started 2025 with 23 franchised locations and no company-owned ones, so every figure above is from franchisees.
Opening costs $71,200 to $139,750, of which $30,000 is the fee. Rent of $7,500 to $15,000 covers five months on about 1,200 square feet, and building work costs $10,000 to $50,000 for those taking a center.
The required opening marketing spend appears as both $2,500 and $1,000. The investment table and the advertising section say $2,500 while the note beneath the table says $1,000, budget at $2,500.
Veterans and existing owners each get 10% off the fee. That is $3,000 off on a standard territory, and a second location at $27,000 is worth weighing against $225-a-school expansion of the first.
Questions we get asked
Questions an owner asks
How much does an Engineering For Kids franchise make?
Item 19 of Engineering For Kids’ 2026 FDD, issued 22 May 2026, reports that 14 of the 22 Engineering For Kids locations trading at the end of 2025 billed $75,000 or less, including 8 of the 16 open more than two years. An Engineering For Kids franchise costs $71,200 to $139,750 to open, including a $30,000 initial franchise fee.
What do these locations bill at Engineering For Kids?
In 2025, 14 of the 22 franchised locations billed $75,000 or less. One sat between $125,001 and $175,000, two between $175,001 and $225,000, one between $275,001 and $350,000, two between $350,001 and $425,000, one between $425,001 and $550,000 and one between $550,001 and $600,000.
Does time in business fix that at Engineering For Kids?
Time in business explains only part of it at Engineering For Kids. All six locations open less than two years sat in the bottom group, but so did 8 of the 16 open longer. Half the mature system is in the same group as every new arrival.
How does the royalty actually work at Engineering For Kids?
The royalty is 7% on the first $25,000 of gross sales in a month, 6% on the next $25,000 and 5% above $50,000, with the groups resetting each month. On our reading a location billing $200,000 a year evenly pays a flat 7%, and even $575,000 comes to 6.52%.
What is the minimum royalty at Engineering For Kids?
The minimum is $300 a month from the seventh month after signing. On our reading that governs below about $51,429 of annual sales, which covers a good part of the bottom group.
What else does Engineering For Kids take?
Engineering for Kids also charges a 2% brand fund contribution and a local advertising requirement of the greater of 2% of gross sales or $100 a month. The total advertising obligation is capped at 4%, plus $200 a month of technology, rising by at most $25 a month in any twelve-month period.
How is the Engineering For Kids territory defined?
It is defined by the number of schools. A standard territory covers roughly 100 schools with grades somewhere between kindergarten and eighth, and extra schools cost $225 each. It is expressly non-exclusive, and you may work unassigned open areas within 25 miles until they are assigned to someone else.
How much does an Engineering For Kids franchise cost to open?
An Engineering For Kids franchise costs $71,200 to $139,750 to open, excluding real estate purchase, of which $30,000 is the franchise fee. Veterans and existing franchisees in good standing each get 10% off that fee.
Which two numbers should run monthly at Engineering For Kids?
Track revenue a school against $750, because that is what the bottom of the system earns and the gap to the top is $5,000 a school. Then track single-month gross sales against $25,000, because that is where the royalty rate actually changes.
- The filing gives no revenue figures. The filing makes no financial performance representation, so there is no disclosed sales number for any location.
- The filing gives no profit figure. The filing reports sales and not earnings, so what an owner keeps is not disclosed.
- The filing breaks out no cost lines. Wages, rent and cost of goods are not broken out, so margin cannot be rebuilt from the document.
- The filing gives no attainment figure. The filing does not say how many locations reached the average it publishes.
Questions worth putting to Engineering For Kids
The filing answers what it answers. These are the gaps an owner or a buyer should close directly.
- What do locations at the median spend on wages and rent as a share of sales? The filing reports sales only.
- Which factors does Engineering For Kids see in its highest-selling locations, such as trade area, years open and size?
- How long does a new location take to reach the average you publish, and what does the build-up look like month by month?
- At what level of sales do the minimum charges stop applying and the percentage take over?
- How many Engineering For Kids locations closed, were sold, or changed hands last year, and why?
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Questions owners ask next
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- At what point do spreadsheets stop coping?It explains what changes at around ten units and why lenders care.
Where these figures come from.
Every figure here comes from Engineering for Kids International, LLC’s 2026 FDD and is unaudited by us. We are unaffiliated with the brand. Calculations of our own are marked with an asterisk where they appear. The figures describe past performance at other businesses and are not a projection of yours. This page is an educational summary. It is not an offer to sell a franchise, and it is not financial, legal or tax advice. Engineering For Kids® is a registered trademark of its owner. How Averan reads a Franchise Disclosure Document.
These figures come from the brand's disclosure. They are not a forecast, an offer to sell a franchise or advice. Source: Engineering for Kids International, LLC, 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, issued 22 May 2026.