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Carrboro, NC vs Fayetteville, NC

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- Fayetteville spends 35.0% less per student than Carrboro.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 8.0% higher in Fayetteville than in Carrboro. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fayetteville had 3.2% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Carrboro

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 Carrboro, NCFayetteville, NCUnited States
 Expend. per Student$15,548$10,111$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,405$9,614$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,885$6,015$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.0914.1416.23
 Students per Librarian5435574573
 Students per Counselor280307530
 Grade School Educ.2.4%2.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.1%5.3%6.3%
 High School Educ.95.5%92.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.5%29.1%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.5.2%10.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.6%27.6%33.7%
 Masters Grad.24.4%6.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree8.1%1.7%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree9.8%1.0%1.5%

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Reviews for Carrboro    4 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

Carrboro is basically a bedroom community, where people who work at or study at UNC over in Chapel Hill lay down for the night. All day they work at UNC only to pay the  More

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Carrboro has a strong civic life with a lot of local participation and visionary politics towards making a more sustainable and just community. The center of town has  More

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Over 14 years ago

climate is good, 4 seasons, winter is short with just a little  More

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Reviews for Fayetteville    46 Reviews

I have lived in Fayetteville for 21 years and I LOVE IT! Fayetteville is a military town and that is what brought my husband and I here originally. Since January 2000  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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