British Swim School at The Heights

About

British Swim School at The Heights in St. Louis, MO, offers year-round indoor swimming lessons for infants, children, and adults. Their program focuses on water safety and survival skills through structured classes with small student-to-teacher ratios in a comfortable, heated environment.

The indoor pool used for lessons is heated and typically maintained at a comfortable 85-86 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 30 degrees Celsius), which is ideal for all ages, particularly for infant and toddler swimming instruction.

What are people saying (AI review summary)? British Swim School receives overwhelmingly positive feedback for its effective and individualized approach to swim instruction. Reviewers consistently praise the school's unique method of breaking down swim skills into smaller parts, allowing children to progress at their own pace and move up levels upon mastering each skill, rather than repeating entire classes. The year-round indoor pools enable continuous learning, preventing skill loss. Parents highlight the small class sizes, great, encouraging, patient, and responsible instructors who provide individual attention, leading to children becoming confident and comfortable swimmers. The program is also lauded for fostering water safety and making make-up classes easy to reschedule.

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Amenities

• Accepts Credit Cards
• Accessible Entrance

Reviews

Listing Reviews

December 23rd, 2024

Greg Ryba

Our three children are thriving at British Swim School! We have tried multiple summer swim lesson programs in the past but if the kids didn't pass one skill they had to repeat the whole class the following summer. Not with British Swim School. They break each swim skill down into smaller parts until the children master them. Once they master each of the five skills they move up to the next level. There are no set start and stop dates for each class which allows for continuous learning and moving through the skills at their own pace. The indoor pools allow us to do swim lessons year round so the kids don't forget most of what they learned by the summer. We couldn't be happier with British Swim School!

September 13th, 2022

Lisa Ohno Shimotani

Our daughter started taking lessons in June and by the end of the summer was swimming! Classes are small and the instructors are GREAT. We love Mr. Tyler, he’s very encouraging and gives individual instruction and assistance to each student. We love how each level has clear goals for our daughter to attain and once she meets them, moves up. It’s very exciting to see her progress and watch her become such a confident swimmer!!

August 19th, 2025

Morgan AE. Dooley, DDS, FAGD

Fantastic place to get littles exposed to water and water safety. I'm so thankful we found them!

July 16th, 2024

Mara H

Great instructors and a great program. My kids always feel supported during lessons. I can tell they are getting more comfortable in the water.

August 24th, 2023

Ellen Vatterott

Wonderful swim program! Love my son’s teachers-they are all fun, patient and responsible! They also make it easy to reschedule make-up classes. Highly recommend!