Petaluma is a great place to raise your boys! Another important website to research is petalumacityschools.org
You can learn about what the schools offer and how the community supports youth and schools. Petaluma is still a small enough town to have a high school on the eastside and one on the west side. They're both great.
If you do decide to move here I'll be glad to help you get information and housing.

Here are several links to school rating websites that should help you out. The first is Great Schools and the link will take you right to the Petaluma Schools section.

http://www.greatschools.net/schools.page?district=827&state=CA

Here are some additional ones as well, unfortunately the Sonoma County Office Of Education Link is down this morning but it is correct so hopefully it will be up and running soon.

California Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/index.asp

School Wise Press http://www.schoolwisepress.com/index.html

Great Schools
http://www.greatschools.net/

Sonoma County Office of Education http://www.scoe.org/

I hope these links help you out. If you have trouble with any of them they are hyperlinked@n my Website http://www.LynnBowenRealEstate.com on the Links page under Education.

Lynn Bowen
Domaine Real Estate
Sebastopol CA
707-695-3814 Lynn@DomaineRE.com