Anna’s growth is making room for another kind of development: a place where the day revolves around small children. The Everbrook Academy Anna project calls for a new 10,190-square-foot learning center at Villages of Waters Creek Retail, near White Street/FM 455 and Persimmon Drive.
Plans include the finished interior, playground equipment and fencing. That gives families something more tangible than a future tenant name on a shopping-center plan: a purpose-built early-education setting with indoor and outdoor space in its construction scope.
The proposal comes as Anna’s population has more than doubled from its 2020 Census count. Alongside the restaurants, stores and fitness projects following that growth, childcare adds another piece of the everyday services that help a larger community function.
Where Everbrook Academy Anna fits
A conceptual site plan dated April 30, 2026, identifies Everbrook within Villages of Waters Creek Retail. It places the school east of Persimmon Drive and south of White Street/FM 455, with parking beside a roughly 10,000-square-foot building and an outdoor area along its eastern side.
The plan labels Everbrook “At Lease.” The later state filing, registered October 5, provides a more precise building size, construction estimate and schedule. Together, the records give the proposal considerably more detail than a brand logo alone.
One address discrepancy deserves care. The filing lists 2014 W. White St., which Texas Bank identifies as its Anna branch address. The project-specific plan is the clearer guide to Everbrook’s intended position within the development. Neither record establishes that the school will replace the bank.
The surrounding plan includes retail and restaurant space, along with Sherwin-Williams and Take 5 Oil Change labels marked “At Lease.” Those labels describe leasing stages, not completed buildings or confirmed opening dates. For Everbrook, the important context is the mix: early education would sit alongside other services along the White Street corridor.
A growing city needs places for daily life
The U.S. Census Bureau’s latest annual estimate puts Anna at 35,245 residents on July 1, 2025. The 2020 Census counted 16,896. That is a substantial change in the number of people making school runs, commuting and using local businesses in just five years.
Population growth does not by itself measure a childcare shortage, and the available project records do not quantify one. It does explain why a new learning center belongs in the city’s development story. Families choosing a place to live also weigh the practical routines around work, care and education.
TCM’s coverage of EōS Fitness at Rosamond Town Center shows another side of Anna’s expanding service mix. Everbrook would serve a different daily need, bringing space for young learners into the commercial growth picture.
Learning through exploration and play
Everbrook Academy is part of Learning Care Group, the early-education organization behind brands including La Petite Academy and Childtime. Its current description of Everbrook emphasizes STEAM: science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics. The approach connects hands-on activities with creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking.
For the Everbrook Academy Anna project, that brand background helps explain the concept behind the building. Everbrook describes learning through play, exploration and discovery, with teachers helping children build skills and prepare for kindergarten. The emphasis is on children engaging with their environment, rather than simply occupying a classroom.
The brand’s broader programs extend from infants to school-age students. Anna’s exact age groups, program lineup, tuition and operating hours have not yet been publicly detailed. Those are important next announcements for parents deciding whether the new school will fit their family’s schedule.
Everbrook already has a Collin County presence, including its McKinney school on Orchid Drive. The Anna proposal would bring the brand farther north within the county. Current research did not identify an Anna-specific school page, so enrollment timing remains unconfirmed.
Classrooms and a playground in the build
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing describes a one-story, wood-framed child learning center. Its scope includes a full interior finish package, playground equipment and fencing, with an estimated construction cost of $1,019,000.
That scope matters because it includes the spaces children would use during the day, inside and outside. The representative photographs illustrate Everbrook environments elsewhere; they do not establish Anna’s final classroom furnishings or playground design.
The owner is Pershing Development, LLC, with Peter Jacobsen listed as its contact. In March 2026 proceedings for another Everbrook proposal in Leawood, Kansas, Jacobsen told planning commissioners that his group develops for Learning Care Group across several states. That provides a documented connection between the Anna owner contact and the education company’s wider development activity.
The next steps for Everbrook Academy Anna
The filed construction window runs from February 1 through November 1, 2027. November 1 is an estimated construction-completion date, not a confirmed opening day. ADA Architects of Lakewood, Ohio, is the listed design firm.
For Anna parents, the next useful details will be the enrollment schedule and the programs the school will offer. For the city, the proposal represents another layer of growth taking shape: a commercial corridor making space for the children whose daily discoveries will happen inside it.