Goldfish Swim School celebrates growth and plans for the future

Goldfish Swim School, the country’s leading water safety and swim lesson school offering infant and child swim lessons, is pleased to announce expansion plans for Cleveland area as the franchise celebrates a significant milestone -- teaching over 20,000 Cleveland-area kids how to be safer in and around the water since 2012.

Goldfish Swim School has four Cleveland-area locations: Cleveland East Side (open since 2012), Fairview Park (open since 2016), Hudson (open since 2017) and North Canton (open since January 2019). Goldfish Swim School is pleased to announce the opening of a Strongsville, OH location in the spring of 2020 to serve additional families. The Strongsville location with be located in the Staples Plaza on Pearl Road. Owners anticipate welcoming swimmers into the pool in April of 2020.

Goldfish Swim School provides indoor, year-round swim instruction to children ages 4 months to 12 years-old in a family-friendly setting with highly trained instructors, small class sizes (max 4:1 student to teacher ratio), shiver-free 90-degree pools, and a state-of-the-art water purification system. Goldfish offers ongoing, monthly lessons and families can enroll at any time. Goldfish Swim School also offers weekly family swims (for both members and non-members) as well as party packages.

Goldfish Swim School provides members with one-of-a-kind learn-to-swim facilities designed just for families. Facility highlights include an air-conditioned viewing gallery for parents to watch lessons, a spacious family dressing area with private changing rooms, a blow dry station, snack bar, retail shop and warm, tropical décor.

With four locations in the Cleveland area, Goldfish Swim School has made a significant impact in the area as a resource for swim and water safety for families since 2012. Highlights include:

• 20,000+ children enrolled in swim lessons
• Over 785 free community water safety presentations reaching over 20,500 children
• Presence at 200+ community events providing water safety info to local families
• Over 160 current employees

“Drowning remains the number one cause of accidental death for kids under age four. We are committed to changing this statistic. Cleveland-area Goldfish Swim School locations teach thousands of students each week how to be safer in and around the water. We reach even more families through our community outreach and partnerships thanks to our dedicated staff. We are proud of the work we have done but we look forward to reaching more and more families with our water safety message,” says Sonali Morris, owner of Goldfish Swim School Cleveland East Side and Goldfish Swim School Fairview Park.

For more information, please visit goldfishswimschool.com.

Founded by husband and wife team Chris and Jenny McCuiston, Goldfish Swim School provides swim lessons and water safety instruction to infants and children ages four months to 12 years. Classes are offered by specially trained instructors in a safe, child-friendly and fun environment using their research-based philosophy called The Science of SwimPlay®. Goldfish currently teaches more than 130,000 students per week to swim and be safer in and around the water. Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Goldfish Swim School was established in Birmingham, Michigan in 2006, and opened its first franchise location in 2009. They are currently in the process of expanding franchise opportunities throughout North America, with 95 schools open, and an additional 100+ in development in more than 26 states and Canada.