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Goldfish Swim School - Glendale, located at 71-03 80th St Spc 7-110, Glendale, NY 11385, USA, is a dedicated swim school offering year-round swimming lessons for children aged 4 months to 12 years. It provides a safe and fun learning environment with a focus on water safety and essential swimming skills through a unique, proprietary curriculum.
The facility maintains its pools at a comfortable 90 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 32 degrees Celsius), ensuring a shiver-free swimming experience for all students.
What are people saying (AI review summary)? Goldfish Swimming School receives overwhelmingly positive reviews, with many praising the highly skilled, patient, and enthusiastic instructors who create a fun, encouraging, and safe learning environment, significantly boosting children's swimming skills and confidence. Specific instructors like Ismaael Yar are lauded for their charisma and effectiveness. The facilities are generally considered top-notch, clean, and well-organized with amenities like changing rooms, showers, and hairdryers, and a pleasant Hawaiian decor. Front desk staff are consistently described as sweet, friendly, and accommodating, offering great support with scheduling and inquiries. However, some minor drawbacks include the discontinuation of family swim (a highly missed feature), occasional observations of instructors chit-chatting during class time, a noticeable chlorine smell, and the need to pay for parking (though street parking is often available). Despite these minor issues, many families express great satisfaction and recommend the school, with some even driving long distances to attend.
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April 3rd, 2025Carolina Díaz
I’ve had the pleasure of enrolling my child in Goldfish Swimming School, and I can confidently say it’s been an excellent experience from start to finish. The instructors are highly skilled, patient, and truly passionate about teaching. They make sure to create a positive, encouraging environment, which helps students gain confidence in the water. The facilities are top-notch, with a clean, well-maintained pool that’s perfect for lessons. They also have flexible scheduling options, which makes it easy to fit swim classes into our busy routine. The only sad part is that they no longer have family swim. It was a great opportunity to share as a family. We really hope they have family swim again since we noticed that other facilities are still offering family swim.
August 7th, 2025Elvia S
We love Goldfish Glendale! My daughter’s skills and confidence in the water has grown exponentially! It’s all thanks to her amazing instructor, Ismaael Yar! Ismaael has helped her level up since starting in Glider 1 through Pro 1, which she is currently in. He is truly the best instructor, so patient and charismatic, making the lessons fun for my daughter. Thank you Mr. Ismaael and thank you Goldfish Glendale!
August 31st, 2025Ann Teng
Wonderful swim school. Fun and inviting environment. Staff at the front desk are always sweet, friendly and accommodating. The instructors are generally pretty decent. Some do a bit of standing around and chit chatting, which cuts into the kids swim time. It’s 25-27 min swim times and max 4 kids a class. It’s newer than others in the area. Reasonably clean but really depends on how other swimmers/families are leaving the place that day. They quickly shut down the pool and cancel a class if there was an dirty accident. They do use lot of chlorine as when I’ve sat poolside, my nostrils were burning. Ha! There’s pay for parking in the lot. $2 for first hour, $4 for 2 hours. There generally is always street parking along the cemetery though.
June 11th, 2024YaN V
I love coming to goldfish swimming school every week, even more than my daughters. Is a great experience seeing my kids learning and having fun at the same time. This place has a Hawaiian decor inside that will make you feel like in a tropical island. I love it! The instructors here are all very well trained, very enthusiastic, and take security matters very seriously. They have everything set up and well organized for you. Bathrooms, showers, hairdryers, changing rooms and a great team to teach your kids and provide a great experience for all. P.S. the school doesn't have a big sign but just in case you need to find it... is located next to Ultra beauty store. 😉
August 1st, 2025Milena Maziarz
We have started with Goldfish since last summer and couldn’t be happier. Our daughter is where she should be with swimming! The team is always great at responding to any questions, concerns or cancellations that are needed. I wouldn’t have send her anywhere else! We do drive all the way from Brooklyn and we love it here!
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Opening Hours
| Sunday | 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM |
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| Monday | 8:30 AM – 8:00 PM |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM – 8:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM |
| Thursday | 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM |
| Friday | 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM |
| Saturday | 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM |
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