Nicastro's Driving School 79 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

"A couple years ago I had a great experience with Nicastro's Driving school. Teachers were kind and the classes were always fun and interesting. I understand it's harder now doing it through zoom but after sitting and listening to my younger sibling doing classes I'm both disappointed and appalled at what I was hearing. A teacher, Ruthy Hope, Ruthless and hopeless apparently. Student was asked a question and after answering correctly was rudely and aggressively interrupted with " STOP. TALKING STOP TALKING". Now thats just one example of her disgraceful behavior. Overall, she was condescending, disrespectful and demanded full and complete submission from her students. I can't imagine a good explanation for an insecure middle aged woman has to bully teens but I hope it's a good one...."

"First I want to talk about my experience I had appointments scheduled in advance, and when they had openings they moved my wife’s appointments into those spots without any confirmation, that resulted in two missed appointments, then on the next appointment, the driver was supposed to pick my wife up at our house and instead he was waiting at the driving school and we weren’t notified about this. On the fourth scheduled appointment when my wife finally got with a driver they did not accept her permit, she had the permit online digitally and wouldn’t explain to her why, left her with no answers and crying. So then when i called to talk to them about what happened the lady taking the phones was very rude insisted that it was not their fault. I asked multiple times if she would give my number to the owner so i could explain my experience but that never happened, i hope anyone seeing this review, don’t waste your time and money with this company they do not care about anything"

"At Nicastro's Driving School you get instruction from teachers who care about putting safe drivers on the road. The staff adhere to strict RMV guidelines in the classroom and on the road instruction. This school holds the highest standard in safety and I would recommend them to anyone not just new drivers!"

"At Nicastro's Driving School, dba Beverly Driving School we pride ourselves in customer service, thorough lessons, attention to detail and attempting to satisfy All of our customers. In the past 30 years we have licensed over 15,000 driver's. Pretty impressive."

"To start, the instructor was texting while driving, nearly swerved into a telephone pole, and did back the car into the fence all in one drive. If you value safety of yourself and others, you should avoid them at all cost. Not to mention that they're completely unprofessional in plenty of other ways, such as rude drivers, hard selling lessons, foul language, reckless driving, consistent tardiness, losing appointments, and lying about scheduling tests. To top it all off, they're just about the most expensive place on the northshore. And just an fyi, they're also Beverly Driving School now, so you'll receive all the same terrors there too. Again, this isn't just administrative issues, they hire reckless sponsors/ instructors who are supposed to be teaching new drivers. I was genuinely afraid while their driver was behind the wheel, and rightfully so as after many hard turns, speeding, and looking through their purse and phone, they did hit something! I had used them before this nightmare, and while the other driver was not as bad as this, they were still less than professional. Do not support this company, they are not professional or safe. Trust me, it's not worth it to stay local."