Questions families ask

Choose the pool and the day that fit your week. Each level meets at certain pools, and the placement visit tells us the level. If your first choice is full, we offer another day or a place on the waitlist.

At a placement visit, a short time in the water with an instructor, at the pool you plan to use. The instructor suggests a level and a cap color, and you pick a class from the schedule.

A level is a group of skills, from blowing bubbles to the four strokes, with a cap color so everyone at the pool can see where a class is. Ages are a guide, and the instructor decides when a swimmer moves up.

Water comfort and Floating and kicking last half an hour. Strokes and Stroke combinations last forty-five minutes, and the lunch-hour class for adults lasts forty minutes. A session runs eight weeks.

A towel, goggles if your swimmer likes them, and a swimsuit or a swim shirt over one. Swim shirts are welcome in every class. Please tie long hair back, and we ask every swimmer to wear a cap in their level's color.

From the bench, the window or the lobby, whichever the pool has. A parent or guardian stays in the building during children's classes.

An instructor, in the water or on the step beside every swimmer. The pool's own lifeguard is on duty during our classes. Lessons are no substitute for adult supervision.

A missed class can be made up in another class of the same level, at any of our pools, within the session and space allowing. A class missed because a pool or the roads were closed is made up too.

Yes. The adult beginners class meets at the college pool at lunch hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and on Saturday mornings at the retirement community pool. It starts with a placement visit, like every other class.

Tuition is set by the level, the class length and the classes a week. Our figures are on the enrollment page, and the page on how tuition works explains each part.