MommingInMoCo
Swim Lessons
1
Kids First Swim School
Location(s): Rockville
Kids First is an East Coast chain of swim schools with several outposts in Maryland. They own their own facilities featuring warm-water pools. Kids First offers 6-week long swimming classes beginning with Parent & Me instruction for infants and toddlers. Private instruction begins at age 2, and small group lessons and semi-private lessons are offered beginning at age 3. The pool can also be rented on weekends for parties.
2
Swim Labs
Location(s): Gaithersburg
Swim Labs is a national chain of swim schools offering high-tech training and a wide variety of small-group swim lessons in their own facilities. Infant swim classes begin as young as 6 months with ParentTot classes with their caregiver. Toddler transition classes begin at age 2 and parents remain on the pool deck. Private and semi-private lessons are also offered.
3
British Swim School of Central Maryland
Location(s): Gaithersburg, Germantown, Rockville
British Swim Schools are a nationwide operator of swim lessons at local pools. The central Maryland branch offers classes in three MoCo locations. Courses begin at 3 months old with parent and child water acclimation classes and then beginning water safety. Advanced water safety classes with parents on deck begin at 18 months old and continue to age 3 and beyond. British Swim also offers classes for children with special needs.
4
SafeSplash Swim School
Location(s): Germantown, Rockville, Silver Spring, Wheaton
SafeSplash Swim Schools are a nationwide operator of swim lessons at local pools with several locations in MoCo. Infant swim classes begin at 6 months with parent and tot classes. ToddlerTransition classes begin at 24-36 months with parents poolside. A variety of group, private, and semi-private lessons are offered for children. SafeSplash also offers adaptive aquatics lessons for children with special needs, as well as camps, clinics, and birthday parties.
5
Goldfish Swim School
Location(s): Gaithersburg, Rockville, Silver Spring
Goldfish Swim School is a national chain of swim schools with several franchises in MoCo. They own their own facilities with warm-water pools. Goldfish offers parent and child swim classes beginning at 4 months and child-only swim classes beginning at age 2. They also host family swim events, clinics, and indoor pool parties for birthdays or events.
6
WeAquatics
Location(s): Bethesda, Silver Spring
WeAquatics instructs at 11 local pools in the DMV, with 2 locations in MoCo. WeAquatics offers one-on-one Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) classes, where babies as young as 6 months old are taught to roll back to float. They also offer one-on-one learn to swim lessons for ages 4 and up or ISR graduates. There is also a swim team to gently introduce competitive swimming to kids ages 4-14 who already know the four strokes.
7
Montgomery County Recreation
Location(s): County-Wide
Montgomery County offers swim lessons year-round at their five indoor aquatics centers and seasonally at their seven outdoor pools. Parent and child swim lessons begin at 6 months of age and child-only swim lessons are offered for children ages 4 and up. Private lessons are also offered.
13
FINS Swimming
Location(s): Bethesda, Potomac, Rockville
FINS Swimming is a year-round youth swim program that fits somewhere between traditional swim lessons and a swim team with a focus on developing swimmers, not teaching swimming. FINS classes are offered 7 days a week at several indoor and outdoor pools in MoCo. Classes begin at age 3 with a focus on developing a successful freestyle stroke for kids already comfortable in the water, and continue by age group into training for race-pace swimming.
14
Young & Well
Location(s): Rockville
Young & Well is a full-service pediatric therapy practice that offers aquatic therapy for water-averse children. Their classes run for 8 weeks during the summer and are designed to support kids who fear or avoid the water or who have safety or sensory processing concerns. Licensed pediatric therapists teach water safety, guide kids to overcome sensory aversions to the water, and develop the strength needed to swim.
15
A1 Swimming
Location(s): Rockville and Takoma Park
A1 Swimming is a family-owned business offering private swimming lessons for children and adults. A1 offers one-on-one, one-on-two, and one-on-three private instruction in 4-week-long sessions. Instruction is available for kids beginning at age 2 and for special needs and aquaphobic individuals. A1 is home to A1 Stroke School which is a training program developed for intermediate to advanced swimmers to practice drills to improve speed and efficiency.
16
Morrisey Swim Academy
Location(s): Damascus and Potomac
Morrisey Swim Academy provides private water safety instruction and swim lessons for children and adults. Instruction is offered one-on-one and two-on-one for sibling pairs. Instruction begins for kids at 6 months of age. MSA also specializes in offering swimming instruction to neurodivergent, special needs, and aquaphobic swimmers, with about 80% of their lessons serving these students. Lessons are offered seasonally (May-Sept) at two different private pool locations.