Val - you're right, it does sound much better than the school he's attending now. And as of now, that's the big selling point. Even if I'm not absolutely thrilled with it, it'll be better than the current situaion (I think).
Aculady - that's hilarious! My senior class was the one who caused the tradition of picking a "senior song" to disappear. We chose, "It's the End of the World as we Know It."
Austin - we're not really IN a metro area. Smallish military town on the coast of North Carolina. About an hour north of Wilmington.