Carson Swim School

★★★★Akasha Earth Guard

In this area it is the best swimming school for babies, littler and medium kids, they learn‼️ They train their trainers which is good, they have supervisors all the time class. I don't give them 5 stars because of the time, It is a 30" min class but they take time to set the next turn I think they should give us a 5-7 min extra because sometimes they take more We waste time trying other swimming schools in Brentwood area, this is the best

★★★Molly Esqueda

I have mixed feelings about this place. It’s a nice location but it’s lacking a lot. There is only one bathroom to change and if you’re standing near the bathroom waiting during lessons staff ask you to move. I was told the wrong start time for my class for my baby and they still want to charge me $10 for a make up. Good luck trying to make up a class if it’s for baby, it wont happen. I don’t like that you have to pay a registration every season for every kid, I have 3 and that’s a lot…there are no sibling discounts. My other issue is it’s outside, so it can be very cold and it even rained our first class and it wasn’t cancelled. I haven’t had the best of luck with staff there either. It’s chaotic there between classes just like the other reviewer said and it feels rushed and stressful. On the plus side, the teachers have been good so far, but I don’t think we will be back next season.

★★★★★Real “Always active” Richmond

I went here 25 years ago, and still use everything they taught me. The survival training actually became useful in the unfortunate time I had to use it, u reverted back to everything they taught me, made life vest out of my pants, and shirt, and it kept me afloat with minor rei-inflation of self made life vests every 20 minutes or so, but, it stopped me from panicking and also kept me from focusing on time. All in all it took 2 hours to be brought back on board a new vessel and brought to shore. I will be taking my son her soon and I always loved how awesome they were with how they teach. Family owned and operated and they know what they are talking about! Hopefully you are still open?.... I don't know if you are but if you are a response would be great and I will set up a time to get my son in for his beginning lessons 🙏🏼 ❤️

★★★Karissa Roark

The staff here is lovely and friendly, so my review has nothing to do with them, I just personally didn’t love this place as a “swim school” for my family. I found the set up to be a bit chaotic. The don’t even have 5 minutes in between classes, so the start and end of every class is utter chaos as people are leaving and entering. There is one pool sectioned off for about 4-5 different classes. I did a parent and me class, which had 9 people and 1 instructor. That seemed a bit full. You could barely hear your instructor over the other classes going on. The older kids were only 2-3 people per class which seamed much more reasonable. When you only have a 30 minute class, loosing 5 minutes at the start and stop due to chaos and confusion is a bit frustrating. It was our first time coming here, and we just felt a huge lack of organization. There’s about 50-60 people showing up at once, so there’s no one available to tell new people where to go, the rules, etc. it just feels like a free for all. Our swim lesson started and no one came to get us to tell us or anything. Like I said, nothing against the staff, they just don’t have a good system in place to work. I think for older kids this might be a decent place to swim, but it’ll probably be another 5-6 years before I’d consider coming back.

★★★★Laura “BehaviorMomma” Matlock

3rd session at Carson this summer and my kiddos have learned a lot. From Tigger jumps to now learning diving. Price value seems a little low when considering $30/kid for a 30 min group lesson, so we only do one session of 6 lessons each year, but then can go to our gym and practice using those skills they learn. Next year at 9 & 10, I'm not sure yet if we'll return to Carson or pursue something different...open to options! The teachers are mostly young college kids/teens, but they're very nice and friendly...my kids seem to love them each year, although some seem quite apathetic, there's enough rapport and instructional momentum that the kids seem to learn easily and have fun! Customer service can be short sometimes, but perhaps that's expected for how many lessons are being taught...Carson sure has their hands full! But would be nice to not have to soften people up soo much each time to ask a question...but a good opportunity to practice showing kindness with the same response.