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With over 150+ SafeSplash locations nationwide and even more sister brands, you’re never far from quality swim lessons. All of our swim schools share the same proven curriculum and commitment to safety, helping swimmers of all ages and abilities build confidence in the water.

Your local Washington swim experts

Conveniently located in Washington, SafeSplash Columbia Heights offers world-class swim instruction with the personal touch of a local business. Our experienced instructors, heated indoor pools, and proven curriculum ensure that every swimmer builds safety, confidence, and lifelong skills in the water.

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The SafeSplash difference in Washington

Safety
First

From swim basics to advanced techniques, every lesson prioritizes lifesaving skills that give Washington-area parents peace of mind.

MILESTONES
THAT MATTER

Every swimmer’s journey is unique, with lessons tailored to their level and achievements celebrated at every step.

All Ages &
All Abilities

From baby's first splash to competitive swimmers perfecting their skills, SafeSplash Columbia Heights supports every swimmer at every stage.

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Washington Sports Club, Columbia Heights - 3100 14th ST NW
Washington, DC 20010
moreinfo@safesplash.com
202-888-9954

Sunday

9:00-2:30 PM ET

Monday

3:30-7:00 PM ET

Tuesday

3:30 PM - 7:00 PM ET

Wednesday

3:30 PM - 7:00 PM ET

Thursday

CLOSED

Friday

CLOSED

Saturday

9:00 AM - 2:30 PM ET

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WHERE LIFESAVING SKILLS MEET LIFELONG CONFIDENCE

Did you know that drowning is the number one cause of death for children ages 1–4 in the U.S. and remains a leading cause of death for older children and adults? Or that over half (55%) of U.S. adults have never taken a swim lesson? Swim lessons have been shown to reduce the risk of drowning by 88%, giving parents a greater peace of mind and helping children become safer in and around all kinds of water. That’s why we’ve partnered with the National Drowning Prevention Alliance (NDPA), a leading organization dedicated to preventing drowning through education, advocacy, and innovation. Together, we’re working to expand water safety awareness and reduce drowning, one swim lesson at a time.

We love the instructors at Safe Splash! Both of my kids are always counting down to their next swim lesson because they’re so excited to get back in the pool. They’ve both come so far as swimmers in the last couple of months, and I feel like the school does a great job showing them proper swimming and water safety techniques while still making the lessons exciting and fun.

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Got questions about swim lessons in Washington, scheduling, or finding the right fit? We’re here to help!

Swim Lessons for All Ages, Abilities, and Goals in Washington

At SafeSplash Columbia Heights, we offer a variety of swim lessons tailored to meet the needs of every swimmer—whether it’s their first splash or they’re refining advanced techniques. With programs for toddlers, children, adults, and adaptive swimmers, our progressive curriculum ensures every lesson builds confidence, safety, and skill. Choose from group, private, or semi-private lessons to find the perfect fit for your goals.

Swim Class Types

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Group Lessons

Small classes at SafeSplash Columbia Heights in Washington allow us to personalize water safety and address individual needs, while the social interaction and opportunity to observe peers create a dynamic and effective learning environment.

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Private Lessons

Focused, 1-on-1 instruction designed for quick progress. Perfect for beginners needing extra attention, competitive swimmers honing skills, or anyone seeking individualized coaching.

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Semi-Private Lessons

Enjoy personalized instruction with a buddy. Semi-private lessons pair two swimmers with one instructor, ideal for siblings or friends in Washington who want to learn together.

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Toddler and
Infant Lessons

Introduce your little one to the water with a foundation of safety and comfort.

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Children’s
Lessons

Build essential swim skills with a curriculum designed for growing swimmers.

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Adult
Lessons

It’s never too late to learn! Gain confidence and skills with tailored adult lessons.

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Adaptive
Aquatics

Inclusive swim lessons for swimmers of all abilities, designed to meet unique needs.

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The 4 C's of Progress

Columbia Heights lessons in swimming for infants, toddlers, and children follow the 4 C's of Progress—a framework that supports each swimmer’s unique growth. From building trust in the water to refining advanced techniques, the 4 C's guide swimmers in Washington through every stage of their journey with safety, skill, and confidence.

Comfortable

Where Trust Begins

Infant & ParentTot Lessons

Helping swimmers feel safe and supported as they build familiarity and trust in the water—an essential first step toward lifelong water safety.

Capable

Building Independence

Children’s Beginner Lessons

Guiding swimmers as they gain self-rescue skills and navigate water independently, empowering families to feel secure during water activities.

Confident

Mastering the Basics

Children’s Intermediate Lessons

Supporting swimmers as they refine their strokes and swim longer distances, fostering a sense of pride and readiness for advanced challenges.

Competitive

Taking It to the Next Level

Children’s Advanced Lessons

Preparing swimmers to refine technique, build stamina, and achieve personal bests for a lifetime of safe, strong swimming.

The SafeSplash Advantage

Proven Water Safety Curriculum: Our progressive lessons in swimming teach safety, skill development, and proper techniques for all four strokes.

Passionate, Certified Instructors: Each instructor is SafeSplash Certified™ and matched to your swimmer’s needs through our SafeSplash Match™ program.

Warm, Welcoming Environment: Our heated pools and supportive community make learning comfortable and fun year-round.

Convenience at Your Fingertips: Manage your experience faster and easier with the SafeSplash mobile app. Enroll in lessons, schedule makeups, receive notifications, manage payments, and more—all from your phone.

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Building Comfort and Joy in the Water

Our infant and toddler swim lessons focus on creating a safe, welcoming environment at SafeSplash Columbia Heights in Washington, where young swimmers can begin their journey. This stage is all about comfort—helping little ones feel secure and happy in the water while building the trust and familiarity that set the foundation for a lifetime of confidence.

Through playful activities, infants and toddlers explore the basics of floating, breath control, and simple movements—all taught with patience and care by our certified instructors. These lessons also strengthen the bond between parents and children, providing families in Washington with the tools to enjoy the water together and create lasting memories.

Infant & Toddler Swim Lessons

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Goal: Swimmers can comfortably go under the water and perform front and back skills with the support of a guardian.

Skills learned:
- Breath Control: Breath Hold and Blowing Bubbles
- Supported Front and Back Floats and Kicks
- Water Safety Focus: Safe Pool Entry and Exit
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Toddler Transition
Goal: Swimmers can participate in class safely and comfortably. Swimmers blow bubbles with their face in the water in the horizontal “swimming” position while kicking, and with the support of an instructor or guardian.

Skills learned:
- Breath Control: Breath Hold and Blowing Bubbles
- Supported Front and Back Floats and Kicks
- Water Safety Focus: Intro to Permission to Enter
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Building Capable, Confident, and Competitive Swimmers

Our children’s lessons pick up where early water comfort leaves off. Starting at the Capable stage, swimmers begin mastering essential safety and stroke skills, gaining the confidence to explore new challenges in the water. As they progress, swimmers in Washington can advance to the Competitive stage, where technique, endurance, and lifelong confidence come together.

Beginner Swim Lessons

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Goal: Swimmers can comfortably blow bubbles with their face in the water in the horizontal “swimming” position with productive kicks with light support from the instructor.

Skills learned:
- Breath Control: Mouth Bubbles Fully Submerged
- Supported Front and Back Floats and Kicks
- Water Safety Focus: Breath Hold, Wall Walks
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Beginner 2
Goal: Swimmers can jump in the pool, blow nose bubbles, turn around, and kick to the wall independently.

Skills learned:
- Breath Control: Nose Bubbles Nose Bubbles
- Independent Front and Back Float
- Water Safety Focus: Rollover Glide, Safety Bobs
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Beginner 3
Goal: Swimmers can jump in, back float, spot the wall, rollover and swim to the wall independently.

Skills learned:
- Independent Front and Back Kicks
- Independent Freestyle and Backstroke
- Water Safety Focus: Safety Backstroke, Rollover Kicks
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Beginner 4
Goal: Swimmers can self-rescue using freestyle and backstroke up to 20ft.

Skills learned:
- Freestyle with Side Breathing
- Backstroke with Proper Timing
- Water Safety Focus: Treading Water
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Intermediate & Advanced Swim Lessons

Intermediate 1
Goal: Swimmers can swim 25 yards of Freestyle and Backstroke and can-do Breaststroke kick.

Skills learned:
- Underwater Streamline
- Refine Technique and Improve Endurance in Freestyle and Backstroke
- Water Safety Focus: Endurance, Freestyle without Goggles
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Intermediate 2
Goal: Swimmers can swim 50 yards of Freestyle and Backstroke, full Breaststroke and dolphin kick.

Skills learned:
- Refine Technique and Improve Endurance in Freestyle and Backstroke
- Independent Breaststroke
- Introduction to Butterfly, Open Turns and Flip Turns
- Water Safety Focus: Endurance, Advanced Treading Water
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Intermediate 3
Goal: Swimmers can legally swim all four competitive strokes and perform open and closed turns.

Skills learned:
- Advanced Technique for Freestyle Backstroke & Breaststroke
- Independent Butterfly
- Open and Flip Turns
- Water Safety Focus: Endurance
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Advanced 1 & 2
Goal: Swimmers will enhance their stroke technique to improve efficiency and become stronger, safer swimmers.

Skills learned:
- Advanced Technique/Drills for all four Strokes
- Individual Medley Transitions
- Water Safety: Endurance in all four Strokes
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It’s Never Too Late to Learn—Swim Confidently at Any Age

Whether you’re taking your first steps into the water or looking to refine your strokes, our adult swim lessons at SafeSplash Columbia Heights are designed to meet you where you are. At SafeSplash, we tailor every lesson to your unique needs, helping you build safety, confidence, and the skills to enjoy a lifetime of water activities. From backyard pool parties to triathlon training, we’ll empower you to feel confident in the water.

The SafeSplash Advantage for Adults

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Progressive Curriculum

Our lessons build skills step-by-step, focusing on safety, technique, and skill development.

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Certified Instructors

Our SafeSplash Certified™ instructors tailor lessons to your specific goals, ensuring an encouraging and effective experience.

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Flexible Options

Choose from small group classes, private or semi-private lessons to match your comfort level and schedule.

Skill Building for Every Swimmer—Camps, Clinics & Team Prep

Whether your swimmer is looking to refine their strokes, prepare for competition, or simply spend more time in the water, our swim camps, clinics and team prep programs are designed to help them reach their goals faster. With frequent lessons, expert coaching, and small class sizes, programs at SafeSplash Columbia Heights provide the focus and consistency swimmers need to make meaningful progress.

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Accelerated Learning for All Levels

SwimJams swim camps are perfect for swimmers who want to jump-start skill development. These intensive programs meet more frequently than regular lessons, helping swimmers build water safety and foundational skills faster. With small group sizes (4:1 student-to-teacher ratio) and expert instruction, SwimJams are tailored to meet the needs of beginners, intermediate swimmers, and those refining advanced techniques.

Why SwimJams?

SwimJams focus on building water safety skills, refining stroke techniques—including freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly—and boosting confidence through consistent, focused practice in a supportive environment.

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Swim Clinics

Focused Training for Advanced Swimmers

Our stroke clinics are ideal for swimmers looking to refine specific techniques or prepare for competitive events. With targeted instruction from experienced coaches, swimmers improve efficiency, strength, and speed in the water.

Clinic Options

Stroke Clinics: Focus on perfecting stroke mechanics.

Starts & Turns Clinics: Learn the fundamentals of competitive starts and turns to gain an edge in races.

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WAVE Swim Team Prep

Bridge the Gap to Competitive Swimming

Our WAVE program is a recreational swim team prep for swimmers ready to advance beyond lessons. Designed for Intermediate 2 swimmers and above, WAVE introduces the concepts of competitive swim training, builds endurance, and refines stroke techniques to ensure efficiency and legality. With coached practices and intrasquad meets, swimmers build confidence and a love for the sport.

Benefits of WAVE

WAVE participants prepare for summer swim teams or club competitions while building endurance and refining technique across all four strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. In a supportive and fun team environment, swimmers gain confidence, improve skills, and develop a lasting love for the sport.

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Swim Team Prep Swim Lessons

WAVE Swim Team Prep

Our WAVE program is a recreational swim team prep that welcomes swimmers with some knowledge of the competitive strokes to coached swim practices. WAVE builds swimmer endurance and strength as well as stroke technique, and it introduces concepts used in competitive swim training and swim meets. WAVE is for swimmers in Intermediate 2 or higher.

*Scheduling and pricing are determined by location based on the number of swimmers enrolled. Swimmers will be grouped by ability level within practices.

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Swimming for Every Ability—A Program Tailored to Your Child

At SafeSplash Columbia Heights, we believe every child deserves the chance to experience the joy and safety of swimming. Our Adaptive Aquatics program in Washington is designed to meet the unique needs of swimmers with physical, sensory, or developmental challenges. Through individualized lesson plans and compassionate instruction, we help children build water safety skills, confidence, and strength—all in a safe and supportive environment.

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Why Adaptive Aquatics at SafeSplash Columbia Heights?

More Than Lessons—Therapeutic Benefits

Swimming can be calming and therapeutic for many children with special abilities. The water soothes sensory overload, provides a sense of weightlessness, and promotes strength, balance, and coordination. Lessons also help boost confidence and self-esteem, empowering swimmers to enjoy water activities and reach personal milestones.

Individualized and Inclusive

Our Adaptive Aquatics program tailors every lesson to the swimmer’s unique abilities and goals. Whether focusing on basic water safety or developing advanced skills, we prioritize comfort, flexibility, and progress at each swimmer’s pace.

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Certified Instructors with Expertise

Our SafeSplash Certified™ Adaptive Aquatics instructors in Washington are experienced in teaching children with diverse needs, including ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and more. They use patient, empathetic methods to ensure each swimmer feels supported and encouraged.

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Flexible, Goal-Oriented Lessons

We collaborate with families to create individualized lesson plans that align with each swimmer’s abilities and objectives. Lessons incorporate foundational safety and swimming skills while adapting to each child’s needs and pace.

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Programs Designed for Every Need

Therapeutic Aquatic Program (T.A.P.): This program focuses on swimmers with muscular challenges or limited head control. By leveraging water’s buoyancy and hydrostatic pressure, we help children improve strength and mobility with the support of a caregiver or therapist.

Adaptive Swim Levels: Our structured framework includes three levels that guide swimmers with special abilities through water safety and foundational swimming skills. The levels are flexible, ensuring personalized plans that meet individual goals.

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Getting Started

Our Adaptive Aquatics program begins with an online questionnaire to understand your swimmer’s needs and goals. Afterward, we schedule an on-site orientation at Columbia Heights to develop a personalized lesson plan. Private lessons are recommended for safety and tailored instruction. Together, we’ll help your swimmer progress at their pace while achieving meaningful milestones.

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Start their journey today.

Tuition Support: While SafeSplash does not directly provide tuition support for the Adaptive Aquatics program, we partner with organizations that may be able to assist. Contact your local SafeSplash for more information about potential options.

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Swim Parties

Make your next celebration one to remember with a SafeSplash swim party! Perfect for birthdays, team celebrations, fundraisers, or any occasion, our swim parties combine fun and safety for an unforgettable experience. With certified lifeguards and a dedicated host, we take the stress out of party planning so you can focus on making memories.

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What’s Included in a SafeSplash Swim Party?

Access to our heated indoor pools for up to an hour of swim time.

A dedicated party host (and certified lifeguard) to ensure fun and safety.

A party area for food, cake, and gifts.

Customizable options to fit your celebration needs.

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Occasions We Celebrate:

Birthdays

End-of-season team parties

Playgroup gatherings

Fundraisers

And more!

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Family Open Swim

Jump in and enjoy time together! Family Open Swim offers the perfect opportunity to practice swim skills, stay active, and create special memories in a fun, relaxed environment. With a focus on water safety and family connection, this is the ideal setting for swimmers of all ages—from infants to grandparents—to enjoy the water. And with our warm water pools, everyone can stay comfortable while making a splash year-round.

Why Choose Family Open Swim?

Family Open Swim lets you practice water safety and swim skills in a relaxed setting while staying active and creating lasting memories. Designed with your family in mind, our kid-friendly atmosphere makes every visit enjoyable for all ages.