Trends · data through July 2026

Specialty Schools in the United States

Iceflower tracks 520 stores from 423 specialty schools chains in the United States. Ogle School grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Empire Beauty School and FlightSafety International.

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
423
Tracked stores
520
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked specialty schools 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. Ogle School and Empire Beauty School sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Ogle School ▲2 +19.6%
2 E Empire Beauty School ▲1 +19.5%
3 F FlightSafety International ▲1 +11.5%
4 F Fred Astaire Dance Studios logo Fred Astaire Dance Studios ▲1 +10.3%
5 C Color Me Mine logo Color Me Mine ▲1 +5.1%
6 N North Star ▼1 +1.7%
7 P Pinot's Palette ▲1 -4.7%
8 S Summit Salon Academy ▼2 -20.2%
9 A Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute - -22.5%
10 P Paul Mitchell The School logo Paul Mitchell The School ▼1 -23.5%
11 C Canlan Sports logo Canlan Sports - -27.7%
12 E Evans Hairstyling College ▼1 -29.6%
13 T The Salon Professional Academy ▼2 -39.9%
14 I Independence - -58.8%
  • Lowest Price Traffic School
  • Tops Cooking School
  • Triple Step Dance
  • Independence
  • Tricoci University of Beauty Culture
  • Maryland Hall
  • Color Me Mine
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

520 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Lowest Price Traffic School (1)
  • Tops Cooking School (1)
  • Triple Step Dance (1)
  • Independence (3)
  • Tricoci University of Beauty Culture (5)
  • Maryland Hall (1)
  • Color Me Mine (19)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Color Me Mine logo Color Me Mine 19
  • 2 P Paul Mitchell The School logo Paul Mitchell The School 16
  • 3 E Empire Beauty School 12
  • 4 P Pinot's Palette 8
  • 5 T The Salon Professional Academy 7
  • 6 S Summit Salon Academy 5
  • 7 T Tricoci University of Beauty Culture 5
  • 8 F Fred Astaire Dance Studios logo Fred Astaire Dance Studios 5
  • 9 O Ogle School 4
  • 10 N North Star 4
  • 11 F FlightSafety International 4
  • 12 C Canlan Sports logo Canlan Sports 3
  • 13 E Evans Hairstyling College 3
  • 14 A Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute 3
  • 15 I Independence 3
  • 16 B Bridgerland Technical College logo Bridgerland Technical College 2
  • 17 U UTMB Health logo UTMB Health 2
  • 18 T The Dance Company 2
  • 19 S Salon Institute 2
  • 20 P Painting with a Twist logo Painting with a Twist 2
  • 21 C Cincinnati School of Music 2
  • 22 T Taylor Andrews Academy 2
  • 23 I ITT Technical Institute 2
  • 24 C Creighton University 1
  • 25 L Lejeune Dance Company 1
  • 26 M Milwaukee Aero 1
  • 27 C Capital Cooks 1
  • 28 P Pataskala Driver Training 1
  • 29 T Thrive Dance Cheer Tumble 1
  • 30 S Star Performance Centre 1
  • 31 P Patty's Dance Center 1
  • 32 V Visions Dance Company 1
  • 33 F Fancy Feet Dance Studio logo Fancy Feet Dance Studio 1
  • 34 E Expressions Dance Theatre 1
  • 35 A Anderson Music Academy 1
  • 36 L Little Dance Studio 1
  • 37 B Brevard Music Center 1
  • 38 U Universal Technical Institute 1
  • 39 A Austin Kade Academy 1
  • 40 P PCI Academy 1
  • 41 A American Driving Academy 1
  • 42 B Ballet Arizona logo Ballet Arizona 1
  • 43 T Tennessee School of Beauty 1
  • 44 W Wings Flying Club 1
  • 45 S Silverhawk Aviation Academy 1
  • 46 A Accent School of Dance 1
  • 47 D Destination Dance SC 1
  • 48 T Troy Music Academy 1
  • 49 M Music In Motion Dance Studio 1
  • 50 F Forte Music School 1

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