Recurring Multi-Year Revenue | Class 101 Franchise

Business Description

Most test-prep businesses start over with a new set of students every year. This Class 101 franchise in Springboro, Ohio can keep families through all 4 years of high school, which turns college planning into recurring, multi-year revenue.

The model is mentorship, not test-cramming: college planners help each teen set benchmarks and own the process, across ACT and SAT prep, college lists, essays and applications, scholarship strategy, and FAFSA. Families stay through the journey, most starting in 10th or 11th grade and continuing to senior year, and the results back it up, with a reported 92% - 95% college retention rate. Established in 2018, the practice serves families from roughly 25 high schools across the Miami Valley of southwest Ohio, and a diverse team of college planners, plus an office administrator, runs the day-to-day, so the work does not depend on any one person.

Highlights include:

• Families can start as early as 8th grade and stay through senior year, year over year
• Diverse college-planner team plus an office administrator on staff
• A reported 92% - 95% college retention rate among students
• Marketing and referral driven, strong on social and word of mouth
• Proven institutional partnerships, including a multi-day school contract
• Class 101 platforms for student management, CRM, and test prep
  This may fit an education-minded owner-operator who wants to mentor students, a single owner who runs it with the existing planner team, or a local entrepreneur drawn to a mission-driven business with recurring revenue and real community impact.

Details

Business type	Full-Time Owner
Industry	Schools
Employees	7
Established	2018
County	Montgomery
State	Ohio
Home-based	No

Facilities & Equipment

The business runs from a professional office of roughly 2,500 sq ft across 2 suites in Springboro, where students come in for their one-on-one meetings. The seller owns the building, so a buyer can work directly with the seller on lease terms, a flexibility most resales do not offer. Owned office equipment and fixtures transfer with the sale, along with the systems that run the business: the Class 101 college-planning platform for student management and scheduling, the CRM for invoicing and billing, and the ACT and SAT test-prep tools, with QuickBooks used for accounting. The established client base, referral relationships, and the territory transfer with the business.

Growth Opportunities

Two proven levers stand out. First, institutional partnerships: the business already holds a multi-day-per-week contract inside an area high school, plus smaller partnerships for college tours and test prep, and these have grown revenue without reducing regular enrollment, a channel most Class 101 locations never develop. Second, capacity: the current owners describe being limited mainly by space and staffing, so adding the right college planners, and eventually more room, lets a new owner take on more students. Beyond that, deepening the social media and referral marketing that already drives most leads, and taking on students from schools outside the core territory, offer further room to grow.

Reason for Sale

Owner is exploring other opportunities.

Support & Training

A new owner receives Class 101's onboarding and ongoing support through its parent, Unleashed Brands, including weekly calls, marketing and operational training, an annual conference, and the platforms that run the business. The system is designed so an owner without a college-admissions background can succeed, since the curriculum and process are taught.

The sellers are committed to a genuine transition. They want to hand off well for their families, staff, and the new owner, and are selling now specifically to allow enough time to train and support a buyer into the business.