Wow..thank you all for the information/suggestions. The reason for considering carmel valley or 4s Ranch is the proximity to one of our work places. I also looked at sorrento valley (not many houses) and university city (lots of condos and not many houses).

Carli – will definitely try to meet with Holly McClurg to discuss curriculum.

bearishgurl – Thank you for letting me know about the mello roos. I didnt realize that 4s ranch has such high mello roos. I looked at sdlookup website and could find only very few houses with mello roos less than $100. I am not looking to pay high mello roos. so thanks again for pointing that out.

There is a lot of information/ links in this thread. I will look at the various options and talk to different schools.

I was reading through past topics in the forum and someone had mentioned that part of carmel valley was built on sdge land and there are a lot of power lines and also a cell tower. Is this just in the southern part of carmel valley? Has there been any health issues? Just wondering why there are million dollar houses near a cell tower/power lines or maybe I am looking at a wrong area.