Not usually though Bright Horizons might have had one some time back. Private schools may have a yearly registration fee, which is what I'm dealing with now that my kids are school aged.

Ours has registration fees and various "activity" fees. I don't understand why they can't just have the cost of daycare reflected in the prices they charge. It's honestly more annoying having to write separate checks than if they just charged a fee that represented the cost of the service.

OP here - thanks for the responses. Seems like ours may be an outlier.

Not at any of the 2 daycares we’ve been at nor the current one.

Yes, at the more quality and high demand preschools. Daycares probably not, but preschools, yes.

No

$100-$150 annual registration fee per child is pretty typical

Not sure what you think is "large" but ours is $125 and that seemed pretty standard across daycares here in northern va

No

Is it typical to have a large annual registration fee at daycares? Not a one-time fee, but a fee every year you enroll.