I purchased a lesson + road test package from Newton Driving School. I already have extensive driving experience from my home country and clearly explained that I mainly needed guidance on U.S. exam procedures. During the lesson, the instructor only taught parallel parking, three-point turn, reversing, and briefly mentioned speed limits. That’s it. I was never informed that hand signals would be tested — even though, as I later learned from the examiner, this is literally the first thing they ask. On exam day, the staff didn’t even know I was coming. I was given paperwork at the last minute and everything felt disorganized. When I got into the car, the examiner immediately asked me to demonstrate hand signals. Since nobody from the school had ever explained or practiced them with me, I failed instantly. I went inside to ask the manager, Gilya, why this was never mentioned. Instead of trying to understand the situation, she immediately became defensive and claimed they show hand signals to everyone. I asked her to call my instructor directly and confirm whether he personally showed them to me. She called him and framed the question as: “Is it true that we show hand signals to all our students?” — which obviously guaranteed a “yes” answer. She made no attempt to actually investigate. She wasn’t present at my lesson or exam and had no idea what was or wasn’t shown to me. When I suggested checking the dash camera footage from the lesson car, she refused. Then things got much worse. She told me “get out!”, and after I asked in English what she said, she started yelling “Get out of here.” Multiple times. This level of disrespect was shocking. I paid $275 for this service. I simply asked a reasonable question about something that caused me to fail, and I was treated aggressively and humiliatingly. If you choose this school, understand this: the moment there’s any problem, you won’t get help — you’ll get hostility. This was the worst money I’ve ever spent. Completely unprofessional behavior, poor communication, zero accountability, and absolutely unacceptable customer service. I strongly do NOT recommend Newton Driving School. If I could give negative stars, I would. Read Less

I used Newton driving school in order to receive my Drivers license and wanted to say that the process was very smooth and was able to book an appointment every week very easily and completed the exam on the first attempt. Mark C was one of my main instructors for my lessons and wanted to say that he is awesome! Very calm and easy going and definitely the instructor you want to have by your side if you feel nervous or anxious. Read Less

Jonas saved the day when my husband from the U.K. needed to schedule a road test to get his MA license- in order to start his new job, here in Boston. He was accommodating and went above and beyond by driving 2hours to sponsor my husband's driving test in a part of mass, far from where we live. He provided all the necessary guidance that was needed to break bad habits and ensure a passing test. We are both very grateful!Read Less

I'm so sorry to the instructors for giving such a harsh review; I drove with 4 different teachers and all of them did a fine job teaching parallel park, three point turn, and obeying the signs and traffic regulations. The reason why I am giving 1 star is because this school cancelled my test 2 times. I am going to an out of state college this fall and now I cannot walk around with a valid ID. The first time they cancelled my test it was excusable, but two times? My friends from Belmont and Waltam driving school had theirs as planned and never had the tests cancelled. My sister's friend had her test cancelled three times from Newton, and my mom asked other moms about this and many other kids had theirs cancelled at least once. This is inexcusable and I don't know why it's just Newton Driving School. I cannot apply to the DMV in Watertown because I would be in college by the time my test date arrives. I just don't know what to do and I feel disgusted by this kind of service. Had I known this would have happened, I would have just taken lessons here and applied at the DMV directly. Absolutely inexcusable. Read Less

Words can?t even begin to describe the frustration we felt in dealing with the Newton Driving School. We have never complained about something in this manner, but our experience with this business over the last 9 months has been the singularly most frustrating experience we have ever had ? and we are in our early 50?s!! Trying to communicate and schedule driving / observing appointments for our daughter was just unbelievable. As a result, the Russian owners seem to end up in verbal arguments with lots of customers, including us. The real problem is they have no scheduling system ? everything must be done through the owner and when you are lucky enough to catch her, she is rude and will not commit to anything, nor will she return your calls ? no matter how many you make. Everything is ?we?ll see ? let me pencil you in and get back to you? ? yet she will not call you back and when you do catch her she has ?forgotten? she penciled you in. We fell for it early on (first couple months after our daughter finished her class work), but then had to resort to camping out to catch the owner when she was supposed to be at their office and then we had to refuse to leave until she booked us an appointment ? it was unbelievable. If we didn?t have to give them 100% of our money up front, we would have gone someplace else early on. In an effort to try and say something positive, the instructors seemed ok and if you want an easy driving test ? take it through them ? it is a joke how easy them make it ? in many ways, the registry should be ashamed of letting them do license testing. Read Less