Jane Ross Tutoring

Your Opportunity for Ownership

Our work today honors Jane’s legacy.

In 1979, company founder Jane Ross began tutoring students in her living room in Memphis, Tennessee. She left her teaching position at the age of 29 to devote her career to improving post-secondary opportunities for all students, particularly those who were underserved in area schools. She developed a business that provided private tutoring and workshops for students who were preparing for college admissions tests such as the ACT, PSAT, and SAT.

Over time the business grew tremendously. By the time of Jane’s passing in 2003, Jane Ross Tutoring had established relationships with schools throughout West Tennessee, North Mississippi, Eastern Arkansas, and Western Kentucky. She had built a team of capable tutors and developed an effective training system to help students maximize their scores on standardized exams. This proprietary process has now been taught to thousands of students in hundreds of schools over the past 40+ years.

In 2020, Jane Ross Tutoring began its expansion plan after many years of perfecting its model and replicating it successfully in the Mid-South market.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are an emerging franchise, but we are a proven winner.

While 2020 was our first year to begin franchising, our home office in Memphis, Tennessee, has been operating successfully—and profitably—since its founding in 1979. With over 40 years of experience as a tutoring and test prep agency, we are now offering our proven business model to franchisees who want in on the ground floor of our expansion.

The tutoring and test prep business is rewarding in more ways than one.

First, operating a tutoring agency can be very profitable. The Jane Ross Tutoring home office consistently generates revenues in excess of a quarter of a million dollars every year—and that’s with only two part-time employees and a handful of affiliated tutors and instructors. Our business model includes multiple revenue streams with some online options that have been extremely productive during the global pandemic.

Second, training students to improve their scores on college readiness tests is very gratifying. We love working with students to improve their access to college and scholarships. Making a difference in the lives of high school students and their families fuels our passion.

You can be part of this life-changing work!

OUR BUSINESS MODEL

Don’t let the word “tutoring” fool you.

For most people, the word tutoring conjures up an image of a teacher working with a student in a one-on-one setting. That type of training is certainly one service offered by Jane Ross Tutoring; however, private tutoring is only a fraction of our annual revenue. In fact, in 2019, private tutoring made up only 1% of total income for our home office.

The unique factor in our business model is that we sell test prep services not only to parents and students but also to schools and districts. That additional level of services sets Jane Ross Tutoring apart from other test prep and tutoring agencies.

The overwhelming majority of our revenue comes from our valuable partnerships with area school leaders who bring us to their location to teach workshops on site. In any given year, we teach several school-based workshops to groups ranging from 25 students to 400+ students.

Schools pay for these services in a variety of ways: Some pass the costs to parents while others pay for the entire workshop using school funds, community grants, or federal programs.

In addition to student workshops, we provide school-based services such as teacher professional development, educational consulting, and practice testing for students. The unique business model developed by Jane Ross Tutoring works—for our customers and for our franchisees!

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