Old School of Driving in Rio Rancho

Fantastic experience: The owner was very accommodating to me and my son. My son could not find his paperwork. The owner was able to locate the paperwork, not once but twice, for us. As, I could see someone else could be frustrated, referring to any business owner. The owner at Old School, worked with me and my son, until the final driving test. If you’re looking for a great driving school. This is the place. Whether you’re in Rio Rancho or Albuquerque. The owner was extremely kind and understanding, most importantly, a tremendous instructor.

Negative experience: This review comes long after my daughter “completed” her course here, at the Sara location, but now I have my second child in a driver’s ed class at another place and the differences are so startling that I had to write a review. At 15, I put my 15 yr old in classes here and it was awful. The class was far too fast paced, often ending early, she got maybe 2-3 hours of behind the wheel time with them and one of the instructors who took her out the second and last time, was absolutely horrific. He scolded her about needing to keep her elbows on the door armrest, took away her rear view mirror and kept nitpicking her about things that are really personal preference, not actual driving necessities. She was physically uncomfortable trying to keep the positions he said she needed to keep, was mentally stressed because she was supposed to pretend that the rear view mirror didn’t exist for her and just overall not getting what she should have out of the class. After that, they never seemed to have available time for her to schedule her remaining driving time and just pushed her through the final exam portion to get her certificate of completion. I found out later that shortly after my daughter “finished” (I use the term loosely), the school had their license or what it suspended for a period of time due to many other complaints and issues. Hopefully they’ve corrected everything now, but for us, It was a huge waste of money. I now have my second child in New Mexico Academy of Driving and it’s day one and night and day differences. My daughter came home telling me all the things they covered, the structure of the course and it seems clear they’re actually interested in preparing my kid for driving and learning what she needs to learn PRIOR to putting her on the road. If I could recoup what I paid Old School, I would because what they provided my daughter was NOT any kind of education or preparation for driving.

Fantastic experience: Very helpful site, answered my questions professionally and promptly. Thank you for your time and assistance.

Negative experience: Took my child there was very disappointed poor instructor for price. I do not recommend.

Fantastic experience: It really helped my son at the driving school when he was really inexperienced and just wanted to get his provisional, he’s not more confident and comfortable in driving and is taking me places now too. It’s wonderful and I’m very proud of him and glad they could support my son and make him more confident