Is your childcare tenant healthy?
You see the rent check. You don't see the tuition and occupancy behind it. Compare your tenant against 234 national-brand centers we surveyed in 2025 — real tuition rates, licensed capacity, and enrollment, collected directly from each school.
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Tuition, capacity, and enrollment figures were received manually from individual schools during our 2025 survey. Treat them as indicative of the market, not audited operator data. This tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by any childcare brand; brand names are used for identification only.
Childcare tenant health — key figures
Little Scholars Real Estate surveyed 234 national-brand childcare centers across 43 metro markets during 2025, collecting monthly infant and preschool tuition, licensed capacity, and enrollment directly from each school. 141 of those centers reported both capacity and enrollment, allowing true utilization to be calculated.
The two strongest indicators of childcare tenant health are utilization — enrollment divided by licensed capacity — and tuition positioning against the local market. A center above 85% utilization at or above market tuition generally covers rent comfortably; below 75%, rent coverage is thinner and renewal risk rises.
Source: Little Scholars Real Estate 2025 tuition survey, rates received directly from individual schools. These figures may be cited or republished with attribution to Little Scholars Real Estate (CC BY 4.0).