CS Driving School

Fantastic experience: CS Driving School provided a truly wonderful experience for our family. We especially appreciated their user-friendly online platform, which made scheduling and communicating with their office a breeze. Lisa and Laura were outstanding; their support was instrumental in helping our daughter get her license. We can't recommend them enough, and we found the cost to be well worth the investment

Fantastic experience: I tried two other driving schools before CS Driving and found the instructors to be inattentive and uncommunicative. With CS Driving, I was assigned Bill Golden as my instructor and he is the absolute best. He was always very encouraging and attentive, and gave feedback that was on point. He worked with me to master the skills I wanted to work on at my own pace. He took the time to explain why a particular driving task seemed confusing or counterintuitive. I could see my driving ability improve after each lesson with him. I highly recommend CS Driving and Bill Golden!

Negative experience: In our experience, the driving instruction at CS Driving school was alternately reckless, abusive, and neglectful. One instructor took my teen daughter onto the highway on her second lesson when she was nowhere near ready, terrifying her while laughing at her fear. The school's owner Anna Sabatino spent one lesson yelling at my daughter, belittling her, and tearing her down. At the end of the 12-lesson package, when my daughter needed to work on parallel parking for the upcoming road test, a CS instructor had her just drive around without practicing parking, while he ignored her and watched sports on his cellphone. Shortly afterwards, my daughter failed her first road test due to parallel parking. The CS staff present at the CS-sponsored road test said that CS would call us to schedule a second road test, but no one ever called. We left CS and went to a different driving school (Middlesex Driving Academy in Winchester), where my daughter had two brush-up lessons with an excellent instructor who built up her confidence, practiced parking repeatedly, and helped her pass her second road test easily. I wish we had gone to Middlesex in the first place! On top of all of the problems with driving instruction, CS Driving has terrible scheduling issues which they rudely refuse to acknowledge or fix, claiming that all schools have the same issue. However, my younger child is now at Middlesex Driving Academy which has a much more logical and fair sign-up system that actually allows for one lesson per week without a problem. Avoid CS Driving Academy! There are sound reasons for the many bad reviews.

Negative experience: My son signed up for classes when he was 16. He got a driver’s education class as part of a bundle, which helped him get his permit. However, he was unable to sign up for any driving classes, despite us paying around $899 for the whole thing. We attempted to contact the school multiple times, but we were met with no response every time we reached out. I would not recommend this school to anyone who has a busy schedule or a fast-paced lifestyle.

Positive experience: My daughter passed her test in 1st attempt. However, it takes so long to schedule classes. It took us more than 9 months to con the test class package simply because they cannot schedule any instructors. You have to call them multiple times in order to get a class slot.