The absolute worst ever!!! Complete waste of time and money!! Do yourself a favor and go anywhere…read moreelse. Terrible customer service... terrible online support. Honestly I think this place is so kind of scam. Take your money and give you the run around until you're so tired of dealing with it you give up!!!! SCAM

Mr flynn was amazing. He helped me with my maneuver ability and taught me the basis of driving.read more

1st Choice Driving school, should be everyone's 1st choice! Paris is such a great driving…read moreinstructor. He is positive, knowledgeable, encouraging, patient and gives great feedback. They definitely have the best prices and driving instructors! 1st Choice Driving School is THE BEST!!!!

I paid upfront for driving instruction with 1st Choice for my 18 year old son which was to include…read moreusing their car for taking the test. They made us set the appointment a full month and a week in advance, because according to them they were very busy. On the day of the highly anticipated driving and driving test appointment, they did not even show up. Totally unprofessional. My son was very disappointed. I paid for the session upfront and have yet to receive my requested refund which I demanded immediately. I will file a lawsuit in the coming days. I find their customer service and overall business practices abhorrent and I would highly advise against using their services.

4 years ago, this company was highly recommended by a family for my daughter. It was one of the…read morebest decisions we made to have the owner, Ari, teach her to drive! He was incredible, calm, patient, kind and thorough. She enjoyed her time doing the in-cars and learned a lot. She passed the test with flying colors! Fast forward to 20 and my other daughter just completed her in-cars with Kelsey. She LOVED it and learned so much! This is a great company that will respond to questions immediately and patiently. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEM!! My family was so fortunate to work with them! P.S. My 2nd daughter just passed the test with flying colors, too!

I gave Overbeke a one-star rating because I don't think it's possible to give them a zero-star…read morerating through Yelp. This is the worst business I've ever dealt with and I would strongly recommend that anybody who needs driving instruction not deal with this business. First my son took the online instruction. Part way through his online instruction the program simply froze. We contacted Overbeke and we contacted their owner, Ari Klarfeld. We were told that Overbeke doesn't, in fact, administer the online course but instead they delegate that out to a separate company. We would have to deal with that company even though we paid Overbeke and not that separate company. I then spent 2 weeks trying to get through to that separate company. I finally threatened that I was going to contact the State of Ohio and only then did they respond to my emails. They finally solved the technical problem and my son was able to complete his online instruction. Thereafter we endeavored to complete his in-car instruction. Unfortunately the online instruction had been delayed so long that his temp expired and we had to renew it. After we renewed it we found out that Overbeke was booking 3 months in advance. We reluctantly booked his lessons 3 months in advance and then the day before his first lesson the instructor texted me and canceled. I reached out to the owner of Overbeke to reschedule his lesson and was told I would have to wait another 2 months for in-car lessons. This is a horrible company. They have no brick-and-mortar office. They list an address on Mercantile Road in Beachwood but if you go there it's closed, no one is there, and the door has a lockbox on it. I think they may hold classroom instruction there on occasion but nobody staffs this office on a regular basis. I have never been able to reach a person using their phone number. I have never received a return call despite my multiple phone calls to Overbeke with my multiple complaints. I have rarely received a return text and I have occasionally received a return email. There is no customer service and we wasted 1.5 years trying to get my son's license and finally had to get his in-car instruction with a different company. I would strongly recommend that anybody thinking about hiring this company use somebody else. When I went to the Mercantile Road location I actually bumped into another father with his daughter, also trying to figure out what was going on. Apparently their lesson had been canceled as well. This is a horrible company.

This company is horrible, unprofessional. I Paid in full two weeks ago and still waiting for the…read moreschedule for the classes for my daughter. They will make promises but not keep it. My daughter will get a license for the fault of these people late. they don't want to refund the money. I don't know how they have 4 stars on the website is a liar. Now because they know that I am very upset not to answer my calls. The phrase cheaper is expensive in this company is true. I will make a complaint to the consumer, I hope they can help to put an order in this kind abuse companies, Floria A.

Go somewhere else. It will take forever just to get your in-car scheduled. It has been 4 months…read morealready and my daughter stI'll has not been scheduled. I have tried to contact them many times in the last two weeks and have had no luck

I would not recommend Heights Driving School…read more In December 2025, we purchased the school's upgraded package for $625 because it advertised benefits beyond the standard package, including two additional hours of in-car instruction, maneuverability training, and parent tips and tricks. The standard package at the time was $495, so we paid an additional $130 specifically for those extra services. Despite multiple emails and phone calls, we were never able to schedule those additional services. The online system would not allow scheduling, and the only alternative date offered was during the school day. The school issued my daughter's completion certificate without providing any of the additional services we paid for. When she struggled with maneuverability during her driving test, we had to seek instruction elsewhere from another driving school. After two short lessons from that other driving school, she successfully passed and received her license. When I requested a refund of the $130 premium we paid for services that were never delivered, Heights Driving School refused to issue a full refund. After several emails, although they acknowledged the extra services were not provided, they never explained why they believed they were entitled to keep money for services that were never delivered. My concern is less about the money and more about the principle. Consumers should not have to pay for services that are advertised, purchased, and never provided. Based on our experience, I cannot recommend Heights Driving School. It is a pity because I had attend this driving school ages ago when I was a teen myself.

This is my second time using them, I knew better. Its seems like kids are forced to do the online…read moreclasses, which mine did, but now there are no in car lessons available. They are booked out 3 months and everything is during the day, kids are in school. I find it almost fraudulent that you are required to do the training per the state and you pay these driving schools yet the driving schools do not allow you to complete the requirement within a 6 month time frame. Kids should be able to get their license within a reasonable time, a fee is paid therefore the services should be offered and reasonable. Now I need to find another place for in car and pay again, the Heights was paid yet they are unable to fulfill the services paid for.

Let's just address the elephant in the room. Keith (the instructor) is in simple terms a bully. In…read moreclass he would make fun of "window lickers", special Ed kids in general, his own students, etc. The environment was very hostile and he encouraged that. Kids I never even met because they were from a different school were making fun of me and he encouraged it. Now let's talk about driving with him. He would constantly eat candy or cough drops (not sure which) and would litter on the street. Not the worst thing he did just very unprofessional. Another thing is the degrading and the name calling wouldn't stop in the classroom. If you asked him to clarify if you were turning left or right he would call you "slow" or "retarded". There was even one time where I asked "you said make a right, correct?" And he must have not been paying attention because he said yes. However there was no right hand turn that could be made, only straight and left. He continued to scream at me for this when I even asked him a second time which direction to go and he gave me a direction that wasn't even a possibility. He brags about making all of his female students cry during in-cars with him and it seems to be a thing he tries to do. He is the most unprofessional person for the job this includes but is not limited to smoking on the job, making fun of disabled kids constantly, encouraging bullying in his classroom, screaming at teenagers when he is the one who made a mistake, etc. if you are looking for a driving school for your teenager don't go here. I will say some kids do have good experiences but if they don't have a good experience chances are they will have a horrible one filled with being degraded, screaming, in professionalism, and more.

I enrolled my 16 year old son to obtain the Ohio required in school/ in car training for his…read moredriver's license. I enrolled him on 12/30/20, paying $340 cash to Keith. My son completed the in school portion from 1/4/21-1/14/21. Passed the required test@96%. We were told on 1/14/21 that there was 5 people in front of him for the in car portion& that we would be given dates. After 2 weeks, I contacted Keith, only to get text messages back with no dates. After speaking to another parent, having the same issues, Keith was confronted in person by both parents. I learned that my son's in car portion wouldn't be until the end of April. Completely unacceptable. Keith then stated that he has 6 months by law to complete his program which is false.The teenagers have up to 6 months to complete the course due to school, sports, work, etc. I requested a refund of the in car portion of my payment& withdrew my son. I also requested my son's in school hours& test results so that I could get him enrolled in another school. Keith did submit his records but I had to receive them from his outside mailbox. I also had to contact the Ohio Department of Public Safety to get permission to enroll my son in another school just for the in car portion.As of today, I still have not received my refund nor KNOW the exact amount of my refund that I will be receiving. My refund should be $170, which is 1/2 of my $340 cash payment. Only 1/2 of his services was rendered. No where on my written contract does it states that the instructor has legally 6 months to complete his training course. My money was taken, the first half of his course was given immediately, then you are sitting, waiting on the in car portion with no actual phone calls back. Text messages are the ONLY form of communication after you pay your initial $340. I did not do my homework as a parent, I looked for reviews on this business, after the fact. There are multiple complaints on the same issues, dating back to 2018.I have since enrolled my son in another school just for the in car portion, received dates@ the time of enrollment. PLEASE do your research before booking& paying. Get EXACT completion dates.What should have been a exciting time for my son has turned into a waiting game& prolonged him in obtaining his driver's liscence.

i had 3 in car driving lessons with these guys. i payed $280 dollars for the 3. on the 3rd day i…read morewas 5 minutes late coming out of my house and the driver charged me for for the whole lesson. when i called to reschedule and they demanded an additional 80 dollars for me, the driver and his secretary (number listed above) were very rude and insulted my "incompetance" for being late. i would not use this company again. the driver was racist.