10 Boston Swim Lesson Picks From Parents

Goldfish Swim Levels are specially designed to make learning fun through guided play for beginners to advanced swimmers from 4 months to 12 years old, including infant swim lessons, toddler swimming lessons, and more.

Little Flippers Swim School is a premier state-of-the-art year round Learn to Swim Center specifically designed for infants, toddlers, preschool and school-age children. Their facility is the first of its kind in Massachusetts offering Metro West Boston and Winchester area families the ultimate program for swim instruction and life-saving -water-safety education. Their 9,000 sq. ft facility includes a 45,000-gallon, warm-water pool, a large comfortable glass viewing area, and huge immaculately maintained family friendly changing areas.

The mission of Charles River Aquatics is to increase water safety while nurturing a path toward higher levels of performance. Learning to swim with proper stroke technique lays a solid foundation—creating confident, safe swimmers.

The YMCA is a great place for swim lessons because they focus on technique, water familiarity and safety. Plus, the Y caters to all levels from infants to teens. They also offer a competitive swim team program and birthday parties. 

Pool School Plus is a woman-owned business that has been teaching swim lessons in the Merrimack Valley and surrounding area for decades. Pool School teaches without bubbles in small ratio classes with carefully trained instructors who love working with children. Their priority is to teach kids to love to swim with smiles and confidence.

Boston College Campus Recreation encourages all swimmers to develop their skills at a pace and comfort that they find best. Some people will require more training in basic swimming techniques while others may be ready for some of the more advanced strokes. Boston College offers youth swim lessons at a variety of levels to meet the needs of your little swimmers!

Give your infant or toddler a head start in the lifelong benefits and pleasures of swimming. Preschoolers 3 years and up learn the basics in small classes with personal attention. Older children and teens can build swimming skills, strength, and confidence.

The Ginny Smithers Swimming Pool offers swimming lessons for all levels and abilities.

InstaSwim:  InstaSwim offers high quality private at home swim lessons and lifeguard services across all major cities in the US, including Boston. Our certified swim instructors and lifeguards travel to your home pool or community pool. With years of experience in offering swim instruction, our instructors offer students fast results in a positive and comfortable learning environment. All instructors and lifeguards are fully background checked, certified, and screened. Our program is focused around water safety and life saving skills. We offer private or semi private group classes up to 4 students.

Powers Aquatics is a learn-to-swim, safety focused swim program. They offer Parent/Child Classes, Swim Team Prep - Little Crushers, Swim Team, Adaptive Swim Classes, Adult Lessons & Masters Practice, and Water Polo.