I would suggest arranging a time to meet the staff and instructors at the potential schools you are looking at and base your opinion on how well you get along with the instructor(s) and how the school is ran from your point of view.

I think there is some misconception about training on the R22. Reality is, it is a cost effective machine to train on and commonly 100 hour pilots start out on its sister machine the R44. The R22 is loaded with power so it even makes transitioning into a B206 easy seeing as how it is closer matched ...