6 out of 5 stars! AC Swim is BY FAR the best swim lessons in the Bay Area. We've tried a lot of…read moredifferent swim programs. I send all of my friends here and can't recommend it enough. Even though it is a group lesson, our kids learned more and advanced faster here than in their private lessons. After a bad experience before coming here, one of our kids was scared to ever swim again. Now he can freestyle the length of a pool. The club has great extremes: It is extremely friendly and warm to the children and also extremely thorough and well thought out, with specific steps and techniques taught at each level. It's very well staffed. There are teachers with the kids in the water, then coaches helping the teachers, and separately life guards as a second pair of eyes on the kids. As a result, my young kids LOVE swimming and both have better technique than most adults, including me. This is worth the drive. Also if your kids start to slow down in progress, repetition helps a ton. Going more than once a week (either the 4x a week summer sessions or 2x a week spring or fall) sped my kids back up.

We have had such a wonderful experience at AC swim club. I am amazed at how much my daughter has…read morelearned in just one week of lessons. So happy we discovered this swim school. 10/10 would highly recommend if you are looking for a great swim school with amazing teachers and a relaxed environment. We've loved starting our summer mornings here with a swim lesson.

I'm retired. I have progressed from pretty much a non-swimmer to a beginner. Suzie worked with my…read morehusband and me in San Rafael, in the pool. We also attended her swim camp in Paros, Greece for 1 week in 2026. She is able to teach people at all levels. Now I am hooked on open water swimming.

I participated in Suzie's Paros, Greece open water swim adventure in May 2022. Best time ever!…read moreBeautiful swims, amazing dinners and fun times hiking the island. Suzie takes care of all the details and you don't need to be an experienced open water swimmer. Highly recommend this trip.

I would give her 6 stars if I could! Miss Jean taught both of our boys to swim and we went to her…read morefor years, she is amazing. She is no nonsense and doesn't give in to tears which I fully appreciate. Her methods work and the boys are both fish in the pool, they love swimming! Highly highly recommend her!

I hesitated to write this review, because Miss Jean is such a gem that I would rather keep her all…read moreto myself! But the right thing to do is to share the love. I have 3 daughters, and 3 months ago only one of them could swim at all. I was really nervous about taking my kids near water because I was constantly anxious about them drowning. When I met Miss Jean three months ago, I told her my summer goal was to have each of my daughters swimming - even (especially) the 3 year old! Three months and a total of 36 lessons later, all three girls are full swimmers who are completely comfortable and confident in the water by themselves. In fact, it only took Miss Jean two months to get them there! Miss Jean is magic with kids. She has so many years of experience, she really just gets kids and swimming. She knows when to push them and when not to. She knows how to sell swimming to them. She knows all the barriers and how to ease her students through them. She connects crazy well with each child. She has oodles of toys with spiffy names (e.g., the "marshmallow stick," the "treasure chest") that the kids just love. I watched her interact with not just my kids, but many other children in countless lessons throughout the summer. Her superpowers are: (1) Patience - like, a ton ton of patience; and (2) Understanding each child individually, and custom-tailoring her approach to each one. I watched her work with children with developmental disabilities, epilepsy, super young children, and older teenagers with appropriate differentiation and so much love. PLUS PLUS she was super flexible about scheduling all summer. She uses a great system of Google-calendar invites. You can cancel anytime up until right before the lesson with no penalty. Between my 3 daughters' other summer camps, family trips, etc. etc. I needed to constantly revise our schedule, and she was a total trooper about it. You schedule when you want, you change the schedule when you want, and you only pay for lessons you attend. Wow. So: She is the swim-whisperer. All her students + families think so, and they are probably not posting about it on yelp for the same reason I didn't want to. ;)

The number has been disconnected and the "send us an email" link on the website is disabled. I…read morebelieve this swim school has been closed. :(

Maureen Bettis is fabulous. She will take young children (even those under the age of 3) and teach…read morethem to be water safe. She sings songs to the kids to ease apprehension about the water and boy does she get results.

This team has been instrumental in my kid's success in and out of the water. The coaches are…read moreattentive, skill-focused, encouraging, and provide real-time technique and tips to help every level of swimmer. My youngest has gone through their swim school and onto the team and has strong swimming confidence and water safety. My oldest has swam with them for two years and her development in the sport has been astronomical. She has achieved and surpassed her goals for swim and has gained the confidence to try open water swimming, high-level meets, and local meets, too. The year round aspect has been amazing. 10/10!

This pool is outdated. The children's pool isn't even working. The lifeguard staff feels like they…read moreare Baywatch and it's the Pacific Ocean. the lifeguards I definitely will not come back to This is the only pool in Marin county. where I felt bullied by the staff and so did my children who are only three and five: I would not recommend this pool for any parents to come to .

I just spent 20, 20 - 40 minutes on the road and was prepared to swim. I have 2 punches left on a 5…read morepunch card labeled 'Off Season Punch Card ... Valid during open pool hours for 2024 season' I used it twice this week with no problems. The girl at the desk says it's not valid. She gets another teen and he says it's not valid. While I'm waiting through this -- the woman coming in says, she was angry about that - because they did it to her -- and then they wouldn't let her in because she didn't have ID and had to go back to her car ... it was not even busy. I don't begrudge the money -- but I won't go back. I'm only giving a 1 star to save others the time. Most of the time everyone's very nice. I feel there's some adult in back of the kids over managing or something.

This swim school is a joke for a half hour. My son began a swimming class and he's had them…read morebefore... But at this school the teachers are always different. They start late and finish early and they have a beginner class with students that already knows how to swim. Don't waste your 55 dollars for the week. He didn't learn anything in two weeks.

I have to admit that I was reluctant at first to trust a business which did not have any reviews,…read morebut I decided to give it a go (thinking any business has to start somewhere). I do not regret at all having given it a chance. Waldemar proved to be an excellent instructor for my child. He is very patient, very nice and calm, but still he would work my child during the whole 45 minutes lesson. There was the right balance of fun play and work in the water. No idle moments though during the whole class (I know there are some swimming schools or classes in which the instructor just sits on the edge of the pool and literally "talks" the kids through the swimming lesson - none of that here). I personally think that Waldemar's idea of a 45 minutes class is excellent; comparing to the 15 minutes classes that many swimming schools offer, a longer class makes perfect sense, especially for the beginners, but also for the more advanced who wish to improve their technique. And, of course, no matter what some swimming schools would say, the one-on-one approach cannot be beaten. The price is also acceptable for the amount of time, the attention the child gets during the lesson and the results at the end of the 12 classes course. I highly recommend San Ramon Swim School to anybody who really wants their child to learn how to swim correctly, quickly and in a fun, disciplined environment.

Owner teacher superb one on one lessons because their heart and soul each child. My kid at…read moredifferent places, but advanced so rapidly under Nancy really happy.

I brought Nancy a 4 and 6 year old who were excited and ready to learn how to swim. After two…read morelessons, the 6 year was learning quickly and we're still working on getting the 4 year old back into a swim lesson without crying. Her approach, in short, is that you should show your kid how to hold their breath, pour water on their heads, and then take or push them under the water. I don't mind crying if there's a lesson, so I was open to her suggestions when our 4-year-old didn't want to go under the water. Nancy told me to count to 3, give him a chance to hold his breath, and then go under with him. But when he didn't hold his breath, she blamed me for not acting confidently, complained that we had different parental styles, and then asked if his mom might be able to take my place in the next lesson. She proceeded to get in the pool and try herself. And when our son didn't hold his breath again, she told him it was his fault and reminded him that babies could do it. I'm not in the habit of shaming my children to motivate them, nor was I prepared for how she would shame me out of my comfort zone. Unfortunately, while Nancy's approach might work wonders for some kids, it seems just as likely to turn your kids off swimming. Just look at the reviews (I wish I had seen them before going), half the kids learn to swim, and the other half have PTSD (and the parents seem a little traumatized as well). I wish Nancy the best and believe she can help many kids learn to swim. But unfortunately, unless she can figure out how to serve the other half of her students that don't conform to her methods, I feel it necessary to warn other parents.