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Street Smart Driving School Defensive Driving in the comfort of your own environment: You choose when and you decide where; a coffee bar, your living room, or out under the shining sun. We are now offering your defensive driving needs on-line. Whether you're needing a ticket dismissal or a discount on your insurance; one thing is for sure, you deserve flexibility. Street Smart has partnered with an on-line defensive driving company to allow you to receive further training in a flexible way while maintaining a standard of excellence in driver education. With the online training tool the student is able to fit the program into any individuals schedule and daily routine; without drive time or the headache of pre-scheduled blocks of class time that may not suit you and your families needs.
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Teen Education
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This course is broken down into two separate phases. During phase one the student will receive 16 days of classroom instruction. Our classroom experience is lead by a highly qualified instructor, certified through the Texas Education Agency. Street Smart has centered our teaching around the guidelines for TEKS, Texas Essentials of Knowledge and Skills, as approved by the state legislation.

During the second phase of training the student will apply the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom through the use of simulators and in-car training. Texas State Law requires that all teenage driving students participate in 7 hours of behind-the-wheel instruction and 7 hours of in-car observation.
Adult Driver Course
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We pride ourselves on training safe drivers in all generations. Our adult program is designed to offer a classroom environment with professional training in order to prepare an older generation to pass the written examination required by DPS and the State of Texas to obtain a driver's license. During the adult driver education course individuals will spend a total of six clock hours in intensive classroom instruction.

The objectives learned mirror those set out in the first six hours of a teen driver education course. The requirements can be found in the Program of Instruction for Driver Education and Traffic Safety approved by TEA. Each student will receive a current edition of the "Texas Driver Handbook" for further study.
Reviews (11)
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Zia Paskey
Jun 14, 2023
Great class, at first was a bit boring but got entertaining.adding more for the minimum word count which is weird
A.- Team
Feb 20, 2022
The classroom portion was quick, but you won't get drive times quickly. It's been 5 months since my kid got his permit AND he has YET to get behind the wheel with street smart. Ridiculous! There is never any open drive time slots available. The whole online sign up system is awful. Don't recommend if you're in a hurry to get your child behind the wheel.
Derry Lin
Nov 14, 2021
No complaints other than scheduling for drive times. If you're trying to schedule one, check on Wednesday at around 4:00pm to 4:30pm as that's when it generally refreshes or directly schedule with your instructor if possible. Instructors at this place will help you pass the general in-classroom test (and there are retest) so other than the drive times, good review overall.
Diane Veraa
Nov 03, 2021
We signed up for lessons for my daughter in June. It is now October and we have only been able to sign up for 2 lessons. When you log into their calendar is it always booked solid. I log in daily and no open lessons. It is extremely frustrating. If you email them, no reply. If you call, no one answers. SO buyer beware.you will have to wait and wait to get your child their driving lessons.
Jonathan Tran
Oct 28, 2021
FELT ENDANGERED I am writing this review somewhat late, since I was enrolled as a student 10 yrs ago. I am writing it now since my friend asked me if this would be a good place for their kid. I only was able to do one driving lesson, then quit for concern for my own safety and car. The teacher refused to offer instructions when asked, which made me (the driver) very uncomfortable and unsafe for all passengers (including another student driver in the back). Halfway through the drive, the instructor also directed me to go onto the highway, which was pretty scary for someone who was doing his first lesson. Overall, I felt very unsafe the entire time and never went back. A huge WASTE OF MONEY. Would NEVER recommend this place
Brent Clevenger
May 31, 2021
Street Smart's classroom instruction is 5-star, and they have a nice facility with plenty of parking. However, their driving sessions are booked solid, as if they have too many students and not enough instructors. It is very difficult to schedule the 7 drive sessions required to complete the course. You log into a website named Schedule2Drive, which sounds convenient, but in reality is maddening to use.

The website displays a calendar for the next 2 weeks, nothing more, and usually every single session is booked. You must log in every day and hope the school has added sessions or that someone has cancelled. You are prohibited from booking sessions on consecutive days. I had to pay $100 for a 6-week extension to complete the course.
Sully
Apr 13, 2019
For the whole class portion there wasn't any problems. In fact it was really nice, the class instructor was nice, even had a good sense of humor and overall, taught the class with professionalism. However the drive time needs to be improved by a large factor. Children go in for the first time driving and have their self esteem eaten away by the driving instructors who, verbally abuse students, and even hint that they honestly don't want to be there.

Its difficult and a pain enough to schedule drive times that work with my schedule. But I nearly lost it during the drive times because of how unprofessional and rude the instructors are. They clearly don't understand how teens are nervous about driving for the first time. I heard one case where an instructor refused to teach a student because he was struggling.

I also read other reviews and see that I'm not the only one who had this issue. You guys need to hire new driving instructors who aren't rude to your students. Its not their fault their new to driving and are sometimes nervous.
Staffon Isaac Sr
Jan 12, 2019
I have personally meet the owners and staff at Street Smart Driving School and I can honestly say that its a first class driving school. The facilities are nice and equipped with the latest technology. Your kids are in very good hands and will learn everything they need to know to be safe and responsible drivers. The instructors are expierenced and well qualified.

They offer certified TDLR teen and adult drivers ed classes and they are an approved dps third party testing site. Its a one stop shop for all your driving needs. Stop by and check then out, you will be glade you did.
Mark Brown
Jun 08, 2018
This business does not have nearly enough driving instructors to meet demand. When you try to schedule a drive time, their schedule is almost always already booked weeks out. They always do their schedule updates at seemingly random times throughout the day, so unless you're constantly logging in to check their scheduling calendar, you'll miss the available drive times. Basically, their business operates by signing up as many people as possible for driving instructions, when they know they don't have enough driving instructors to teach everyone.

Even though I check nearly every day, I've only been able to get one of seven drive times scheduled in nearly 3 weeks of trying. At that rate, it will take most of the Fall to schedule all 7 required drives. If you need to get your kid taught how to drive quickly, don't go here.
Der Nich
Apr 05, 2018
After you pay your $400, the school no longer wants to deal with parents. They do not communicate or tell you at registration that times on Saturday classes are different than rest of week. And scheduling times for your child to drive is very frustrating - rarely are there any open times (even though I check the website daily). I am worried we will not get the 7 hrs of driving + 7 hrs of observation done in time. Unfortunately, this is the mess we are dealing with right now. My other children though will NOT be attending this school when it is time to drive. I wish there were more driving school options in this area.
Lynda Thomas
Jan 31, 2018
My son just finished learning to drive here and had nothing but great experiences with them. The staff are all friendly and knowledgeable and we were easily able to schedule drive times, which I've heard can be difficult at some drive schools. Definitely recommend.