The shemesh phone has an online version -you can find it easily by googling, hint, the website starts with the word shemesh.
There under the community listing you can find all the local rabbanim and the schools as well.
I think amYisraelYid’s take on Magen Avot is more close to reality than Shoppings. It is the boy’s version of the Magen Avot girls school, which is definitely a BY. Magen Avot considers themselves a cheder but they give more limudei chol than a typical cheder. Shopping may have been confusing it with Rappaport, which has a HS as well.
In terms of the Rabbanim, R Meyers and R Soloveitzchik have kehillos that tend to be more on the Dati Leumi side, so I am not sure they will be able to help you find BY and chadarim for your kids. R Meyer is behind Darchei Noam I believe (which is most like an elementary yeshiva in America would be, with limudeu chol on a high academic level), and sends his kids to chareidi schools, so he might know both aspects of the schools in RBS.
AmYisraelYid- the OP mentioned his kids are in a standard BY and a Zichru cheder, which is why I directed him to the schools I mentioned, and Rav Elimelech Kornfeld, who has first hand knowledge of many of the chadarim and lives locally. There are many other English speaking Rabbanim around, who may also be able to help (e.g. Rav Yaacov Haber of Shivtei Yeshurun, R Chaim Malinowitz of Beis Tefilla, Rav Goldstein of Mishkenos Yaakov area) but I don’t know how involved they are in the schools. Plenty of Americans go to the standard BYs here in RBS- if anything, they are more flexible than a typical BY in Yerushalayim. For more American flavors, there are Magen Avot (girls) and Bnos Malka, as I mentioned. Many chadarim are also around 50% chutznik, some with more Americans, some with less. I agree that an online forum is not the place to discuss the faults and strengths of specific mosdos.
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