Joyce’s Driving School, Barrington | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

This entire company ran by a bunch of unprofessional people and their affiliation with Barrington High school is what keeps them in business which lowers new people into the nonsense I am about to explain.

First my kid failed written test after taking the classes so I had to coach him and the kid passed the test the 2nd time.

If you prepaid for behind the wheel session, good luck getting a freaking instructor available for months. They do not have enough instructors so the kids can take weekly driving lessons and off course weekends are the best time as kids have classes till 4:00 PM and then after school activities.

In the fine print of their contract when you are paying for the services, they put a time restriction in their contract, so if you don’t schedule behind the wheel classes within X number of months after the class room training, they will eat up your 100’s of your dollars even you never used the service!!! What the hell.

Then they force you to pay more money to activate or extend behind the wheel sessions if it expired (A service you prepaid but not even once used it)…what an unethical bunch of of people. There is $50 dollar fee if you cancel session less than 48 hours of schedule date, another gotcha. My Doctors even don’t charge such fees.

To avoid the BS, I paid some extra dollars, then again after two sessions which were two weeks apart, they had no slots available for the entire month. Not a single slot. In their online system they will provide available slots like in the middle of the school day while the kid is in school. What a nonsense. You can try calling them and no one returns phone calls, no one responds to emails. I think its time I throw few lawyers at their faces and get all my money back and all the time they have wasted so far.

I’ve had three students attend this school. With COVID, the on-line classes and “Behind-the-wheel” were still excellent. In actuality, I think if these options were available before (instead of in-class session) it would have made things simpler for our schedules. The “single person per Behind-the-wheel” was actually better than having several students in a single vehicle at one time. So, not all things with COVID were bad. The staff is very helpful and answers all the questions. We used the driving instruction out of Lake Zurich, and Don L and Bill Y were wonderful in the 6 “behind-the-Wheel” sessions my son had. There is handicapped parking and handicapped access to this facility, as well as the one in Lake Zurich. I’d recommend this school to others.