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Big Blue Swim School

90 Pleasant Valley St, Methuen, MA 01844, USA

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Big Blue Swim School in Methuen, MA offers year-round swim lessons for children of all ages, from babies to advanced swimmers. The facility provides a clean, comfortable, and family-friendly environment designed to make learning to swim a fun and effective experience.

Big Blue Swim School maintains its pools at a comfortable 90 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 32 degrees Celsius) to ensure a warm and inviting environment for all swimmers.

What are people saying (AI review summary)? Big Blue Swim School receives overwhelmingly positive feedback for its effective and high-quality swim instruction across all age groups, from infants to older children. Reviewers consistently praise the patient, kind, and encouraging coaches (e.g., Coach JJ, Shayla) who help children overcome fear, gain confidence, learn quickly, and advance their skills significantly. Many note that their children enjoy the classes and look forward to attending. The facility is described as clean, and the overall staff is friendly and helpful. While the app may need minor tweaks, booking sessions and scheduling makeup classes are generally easy, with good customer service (e.g., manager Nick). Parents frequently highlight Big Blue as a superior choice compared to other swim schools in the area.

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Amenities

  • Accepts Credit Cards
  • Accessible Entrance
  • Accessible Restroom

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chastidy Marmol August 20th, 2025
chastidy Marmol

Great swim school! My son started out afraid to even put his face in the water, but with the patient guidance of Coach JJ, he’s now comfortable and confident and has already moved up to the next level. The coaches here are amazing at what they do. I’m so grateful for their dedication and highly recommend this swim school to any parent looking for quality swim instruction.

Nikki March 18th, 2025
Nikki

Both our boys instructors were amazing. Our 3 year old did such a great job at his second class and listened so well to his instructor. They were both so patient and the boys had a great time learning to swim.

Panda Bear December 18th, 2024
Panda Bear

We love bringing our daughters to Big Blue! Shayla is great with our girls and always welcoming when she sees them. The whole crew is very friendly and helpful. Our oldest daughter (2) has learned so much and is already very comfortable swimming on her own (with the backpack although I'm pretty sure she would try to swim without it if we let her) and treads water with ease. She's only been in class since this spring, and we can't believe how far she's come! She JUST turned 2 last month, and I'm pretty sure she is a better swimmer than me.

Evelyn Messiner July 9th, 2025
Evelyn Messiner

This place is great! I took my older kids to various swim schools in the area . When comparing them all, Big Blue has been the best experience for my 5 y.o.. Instructors are kind and encouraging. My son advanced very quickly. The app needs some tweaking but it’s easy to book sessions over the phone.

MacKenzie January 30th, 2024
MacKenzie

My baby has been going here for a few months. He is almost 7 months now. We absolutely love Big Blue Swim School. Every week I see improvement and his comfortability in the water has only increased. The facility is so clean and the teachers are all really sweet. They have been adding more activities to do in the water and the infant class has only been getting better. I find the earlier classes and the ones on the hour (as opposed to the classes on the half hour) are the busiest on the weekends. This could be wrong but was just something I’ve noticed between the two class times I’ve done. I switched to an earlier class because I’d like my baby to socialize and see as many other babies as possible since he’s not in daycare. I also, just referred my babies cousin to Big Blue and his cousin is 6 and he’s absolutely loving the classes. He can’t wait to go to swim every week now! Makeup classes are very easy to schedule on the app and the manager Nick was very quick to respond when I needed my weekly class change. I’ve tried other swim schools and honestly Big Blue stays on top. I can’t say enough good things about this facility!

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Opening Hours

Sunday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Monday 3:30 – 8:00 PM
Tuesday 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Wednesday 3:30 – 8:00 PM
Thursday 3:30 – 8:00 PM
Friday 3:30 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
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