STAGES EARLY LEARNING CENTER, LTD.

What STAGES EARLY LEARNING CENTER, LTD. does

STAGES EARLY LEARNING CENTER, LTD. is a privately held, single-location childcare and early education provider operating from 817 West Union Street, Athens, Ohio. Founded in 2007 and owned/directed by Heather Thompson, the center serves children from 6 weeks through 12 years old across five integrated programs: Infant Care (6 weeks–18 months), Toddler (18–30 months), Early Preschool, Preschool (3.5–5 years), and a Before/After School Program that operates in coordination with Morrison-Gordon Elementary. The business model is a recurring subscription tuition structure paid by parents, with enrollment handled via a downloadable registration form and ongoing parent communication delivered through email, the Remind App, Facebook, and Twitter.

The center's core offering is in-person classroom-based care organized around age-appropriate developmental milestones, including themed weekly lesson plans, sensory and creative activities, pre-writing and literacy work, potty training support, and homework time for school-age children. There is no proprietary technology platform; operations rely on standard website content management, downloadable forms, and consumer messaging apps. Staffing is led by Heather Thompson (Owner/Director), Jenn Beans (Administrator), and Neesa Wilson (Office Manager/School Age Director), with approximately 25 total employees per firmographic data.

There are no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no public listings. The only formal external relationship is an operational partnership with Morrison-Gordon Elementary that enables the before/after school service. Revenue, pricing tiers, enrollment counts, and detailed financial metrics are not publicly disclosed.

Name

STAGES EARLY LEARNING CENTER, LTD.

Legal name

STAGES EARLY LEARNING CENTER, LTD.

Website

https://stagesearlylearningcenter.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

STAGES EARLY LEARNING CENTER, LTD. is a privately held, single-location childcare and early education provider in Athens, Ohio, serving children ages 6 weeks to 12 through five age-tiered programs on a recurring tuition model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Childcare and Early Learning Services

NAICS

Child Care Services (62441), Child Care Services (6244)

SIC

Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Full-Day Childcare Centers (EDACAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Center-Based Infant Care (0–18 months) (EDACAGAA), Center-Based Toddler Care (18–36 months) (EDACAGAB), General Preschools (Play-Based) (EDACABAA), Part-Day Childcare Centers (EDACAAAB)

Keywords

• Early childhood education
• Childcare services
• Preschool programs
• Infant daycare
• Before after school care

Headquarters

HQ city

Athens

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Childcare Tuition/Fees: Recurring fees paid by parents for childcare services covering infant through school-age care. Parents register children via downloadable registration form and pay on an ongoing basis for before/after school programs and full-day classroom care.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

STAGES EARLY LEARNING CENTER operates a single-location childcare and early education facility in Athens, Ohio, providing a full continuum of age-segregated programs from infant care (6 weeks) through school-age care (12 years). The center delivers full-day classroom care as well as before/after school care in coordination with Morrison-Gordon Elementary, with themed weekly lesson plans, daily activity reports for parents, and a focus on balanced mental, physical, and emotional development.

Product overview

STAGES EARLY LEARNING CENTER is a childcare and early education facility offering a full continuum of programs from infant care through school-age care (6 weeks to 12 years). The center provides five interconnected programs: Infant Care, Toddler Program, Early Preschool, Preschool, and Before/After School Program. Each program is designed around age-appropriate developmental milestones, featuring themed lesson plans, structured daily activities including music, art, and sensory play, and daily communication reports for parents. The programs operate as an integrated learning pathway that prepares children for kindergarten and beyond.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Infant Care Program

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Morrison-Gordon ElementarycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStages staff walks students to Morrison-Gordon Elementary in the morning for the Before School Program and meets children in front of the school in the afternoon for the After School Program, walking them back to Stages. This operational partnership enables the before/after school care service for elementary students.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Cadence Education: Private-equity-backed operator of more than 200 early childhood and school-age centers across 30+ states. Directly comparable as a roll-up acquirer and operator of single-location-style centers serving the same age groups as Stages.
• Primrose Schools: Franchise network of accredited private early childhood education centers serving infants through pre-K and after-schoolers. Comparable to Stages through its balanced growth philosophy and continuum of age-specific programs, but operates as a national franchise system.
• Learning Care Group: Operates multiple early childhood brands (Childtime, Tutor Time, La Petite Academy, Montessori Unlimited). Directly comparable to Stages through its full-day, full-continuum infant-to-school-age programming, but at multi-state scale.
• The Goddard School: Franchise system of year-round private early childhood education centers for children six weeks to six years. Compares as a similarly positioned private, play-based, family-communicating center operator, but at national franchise scale.
• KinderCare Learning Centers: National operator of more than 1,500 early childhood education centers serving infants through school-age. Operates the same core programs (infant, toddler, preschool, before/after school) as Stages but as a national brand with significantly greater resources, curriculum, and digital infrastructure.
• Bright Horizons Family Solutions: Largest U.S. provider of employer-sponsored childcare and early learning with hundreds of centers nationwide. Compares as the industry-defining incumbent operating in the same full-day childcare, preschool, and before/after-school categories Stages serves, but at vastly greater scale and with a corporate/employer-payer model.

Regional players

• The Malvern School: Regional operator of private early learning centers across Pennsylvania and New Jersey serving infants through pre-K and after-schoolers. Comparable to Stages through its private, full-continuum, parent-communication-focused model, but as a multi-site regional brand rather than single location.
• Crème de la Crème: Premium private early learning center operator with locations across several U.S. states. Comparable to Stages through its full-day infant, toddler, preschool, and before/after-school programs and emphasis on parent communication, but positioned as a higher-priced regional brand.
• Childcare Network: Regional operator of more than 200 early childhood education centers across the Southeastern U.S. Compares through its full-day infant-through-school-age programming, but at much larger regional scale and with different geographic focus than Athens, OH.
• AppleTree & Gilden Woods: Mid-size private operator of early childhood centers across Michigan. Comparable as a private, multi-program, full-day childcare operator serving the same age range as Stages, but concentrated in a different regional market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stages-early-learning-center-ltd.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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