Confused tatty – it has been 10 years since I was in sem, and I can’t tell you specifically more than a “feel” I got of schools, but I can tell you that I had Rebbetzin Tarshish in Maalot, and she is unbelievable, in a good way. I don’t know how close you can or can’t get to her, cuz I don’t know how busy she is these days, but she is very caring. But academically, or learning torah, nothing compares – she is brilliant ka”h and brings machshava to life – whether in teaching mitzvos, or tanach, or machshava – anything….she brings all kinds of torah sources before you finish processing the first point and then she ties it all together, and each shiur ends with a huge “WOW!” and tons if inspiration. I personally learned “Shoftim” from her, and it seems at face value like one of the most boring and least thought provoking (if I can say that c”v) of the neviim, and she would bring aggadata and maharal and tons of sources, and break apart each pasuk, and explain from these mekoros what people’s names represented, what “ben so and so” represented, what the name of the place they were from or conquered represented, and what the number of years each one ruled represented – and it was so meaningful and powerful, it both gave me a lot of machshava and yesodos to think about, and it gave me a deeper emunah and appreciation for what tanach is all about, or how much depth there is behind it that we don’t understand – when such seemingly basic “non-inspiring” pesukim could “pack such a punch” of meaning and inspiration…!
As far as warmth, I think that is the most important thing to look into with any school (and/or families you can hook up your daughter with here in israel that will look after her and give her familial warmth when she goes for shabbos, y”t etc) as that is both the biggest factor in “losing” kids c”v, and the greatest factor in inspiring them and keeping them infused with wanting this derech for life…
hatzlocha rabbah! and if I can be of more help you can ask YWN for my email…