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Big Blue Swim School in Niles, IL offers year-round swim lessons for children of all ages, focusing on individualized attention and small class sizes. The facility provides a clean, comfortable, and family-friendly environment designed to make learning to swim a fun and effective experience.
The pools at Big Blue Swim School are consistently maintained at a warm 90 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 32 degrees Celsius) to ensure a comfortable learning environment for all swimmers.
What are people saying (AI review summary)? Overall, Big Blue Swim School receives overwhelmingly positive feedback. Many parents praise the friendly, patient, professional, and communicative instructors, noting their ability to make classes fun and help children feel comfortable in the water. Numerous reviews highlight the significant and rapid progress children make, with some parents expressing amazement at their kids' achievements like jumping and floating at a young age. The school's dedicated app is consistently lauded for its convenience, allowing easy tracking of progress, scheduling make-up lessons, and cancelling classes without penalty. Other positive aspects include a strong focus on safety, small class sizes ensuring individual attention, clean and well-maintained facilities (including non-slip flooring), and a generally welcoming staff. While one review mentioned a negative experience with a child making little progress and a lack of follow-up from staff despite initial concerns, the vast majority of experiences suggest a high-quality program and good value for the service provided.
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Accepts Credit Cards
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Accessible Entrance
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Accessible Restroom
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Listing Reviews
July 13th, 2025Nick Tran
My kids have been there for over 2 years. They have a good staff with an amazing app to keep tracks all the process. Especially Livian, she’s very kind, friendly and responsible.
August 21st, 2025hmesolor
My daughter started with swim lessons here for a few months and made very little progress. When I expressed some concern, the staff was responsive and told me there was a note in the file and the teacher would reach out. Never heard from anyone. While everyone was nice and other families seemed happy, I didn’t feel this was a good fit. I ended up going to Blue Gems instead and what a difference. In a few weeks, my daughter was putting her head under the water and it feels like she’s really learning now.
September 2nd, 2025Sarah Carrigan
We’ve had a great experience here! The instructors are friendly and laid back, which makes class feel fun and not stressful at all. We've definitely arrived a few minutes late a couple times and it's easy to just jump in. The last time we went, our daughter was having a bad day and they offered to give us a class back for a make-up time (completely unprompted!). Outside of that, my daughter looks forward to the welcome song every week—in general she loves the songs. And her progress has blown us away. She’s not even 2 and she’s jumping off the side of the pool by herself and doing beautiful back floats (we still keep a hand under her neck, but she does the rest on her own!). The focus on safety is obvious—they’re always careful and even update their approach when new best practices come out. Since starting, they've adjusted a few activities based on new safety practices. I also really appreciate how small the classes are. It's rare that there are more than 5 kids per instructor. When classes are bigger, they add an instructor. So the instructors always make a point to check in with each child/parent pair during every class. The new non-slip flooring in the changing rooms is great—and the staff are consistently warm and welcoming. The app makes everything so easy. I can see which skills my daughter’s working on, what she needs to move up, and even schedule make-up lessons without any hassle. If she's sick morning of, I can easily go into the app to let them know she'll miss that day, no penalty.
August 12th, 2025Gulnaar Shafaq
We recently enrolled our little boy for swim lessons he loves this place,the teachers are friendly, patient and professional. They help kids feel comfortable with entering and staying in the water. The space is clean and well maintained. The prices are competitive compared with other swim schools like goldfish swim schools but definitely more than the park district program but it's worth the service received.
August 12th, 2025Estera Dan
Big Blue Swim School in Niles is fantastic! All the teachers are extremely communicative and work wonderfully with children. My kids have made incredible progress since starting here, and I couldn’t be happier with their experience. Highly recommend!
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Opening Hours
| Sunday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
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| Monday | 3:30 – 7:00 PM |
| Tuesday | 3:30 – 7:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 3:30 – 7:00 PM |
| Thursday | 3:30 – 7:00 PM |
| Friday | 3:30 – 7:00 PM |
| Saturday | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
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