Rosa Martinez started GreenLight in 2009 with one dual-control car and a simple belief: nobody learns well while being yelled at. Calm teaching makes calm drivers.
Today fourteen licensed instructors teach teens and adults all over Sacramento — with free pickup, written progress notes and a mock road test before the real one.
Since 2009
Sacramento drives safer
Example figures for a fictional school.
14,200+
Students taught
Teens and adults.
94%
First-try pass rate
On the DMV road test.
22,000+
Lesson hours a year
Behind the wheel.
4.9★
Star rating
From 1,876 verified reviews.
Our story
Seventeen years of first licenses
From one car to a fleet.
2009
One car
Rosa Martinez starts teaching in her own dual-control sedan.
2012
Teen program
Online driver’s ed and behind-the-wheel packages for teens.
2016
Free pickup
Lessons start at your door, school or office.
2021
Nervous drivers
A calm program for adults who are anxious behind the wheel.
2026
Fourteen instructors
Still the same calm, patient approach.
OUR TEAM
The instructors beside you
Background-checked, licensed and proud of their work.
Rosa Martinez
Founder & instructor
Seventeen years and more than 3,000 first licenses.
Tom Nguyen
Senior instructor
Freeway and parallel parking specialist.
Grace Owens
Nervous-driver coach
Calm voice, endless patience.
Luis Romero
Teen program lead
Makes teens and parents equally comfortable.
CREDENTIALS
Licensed, insured, recognized
2026
Licensed driving school
California DMV (example)Certification
License E-4471.
2025
Best driving school in Sacramento
Sacramento Readers’ Choice (fictional)Recognition
Four years running.
2024
Safe fleet certified
Road Safety Council (fictional)Certification
Every car inspected monthly.
2023
13,000th student
GreenLightMilestone
A very proud 16-year-old.
Our promise
We will be patient, we will be clear, and we will not send you to the road test until you are ready. If you do not pass on your first try, your next mock test is on us.