Creative Learning Center, Inc. was established in October 1989 as a privately owned Maryland corporation to provide a conveniently located high-quality part-time child development program for Olney area families.

For its first eight years, CLC operated at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Olney. Beginning in October 1989 with 31 children in two classes, the program expanded over the years to 139 children in ten classes. For the next two years, CLC operated at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Derwood, serving 106 children in nine classes.

Beginning in July 1999, CLC entered into a five-year lease agreement with another Olney church community, New Hope Presbyterian Church, in its new church building on Bowie Mill Road. Here, CLC offers nine classes for 120 children.