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Alamosa, CO vs Rifle, CO

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Highlights
- Rifle spends 23.7% more per student than Alamosa.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 0.5% lower in Rifle than in Alamosa. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rifle had 1.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Alamosa

Education
 Alamosa, CORifle, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student$11,124$13,757$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,048$11,834$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$5,660$6,791$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.6615.5816.23
 Students per Librarian4876014573
 Students per Counselor182214530
 Grade School Educ.7.5%5.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.8%6.8%6.3%
 High School Educ.88.7%87.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.0%25.8%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.10.4%12.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.23.9%16.1%33.7%
 Masters Grad.6.3%3.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.4%0.3%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.8%1.2%1.5%

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Reviews for Alamosa    5 Reviews

Rating 1 out of 5 This place is absolutely Crawling with meth and heroin addicts. They roam the streets, they constantly knock on your door asking for rides and money.  More

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If want to retire in a nice, quiet place where you can live in isolation, you have a steady stream of income from an outside source, you don't have anything valuable  More

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Over 11 years ago

Honestly Alamosa is probably the worst place ever..It sucks..Especially being African-American here..The people show signs of racism which is confusing to me seeing that  More

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Reviews for Rifle    6 Reviews

I love the Western Slope!! While there are a lot of good things to be said about the Western Slope of Colorado, which Rifle is, there are some concerning things as  More

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Been living in the area for 3 years, Rifle for half of that. The city recently upgraded the water facilities, and the north half of I-70 no longer has the nasty hard  More

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Over 7 years ago

This area has a heroin/meth problem. It doesn't really impact you if you avoid it, but you tend to see a lot of tweakers/beggars/homeless around town. Water is not that  More

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