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Champaign, IL vs Mesa, AZ

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Highlights
- Mesa spends 48.4% less per student than Champaign.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 35.9% higher in Mesa than in Champaign. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Mesa had 3.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Champaign

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 Champaign, ILMesa, AZUnited States
 Expend. per Student$20,461$10,564$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$15,342$8,653$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$9,155$4,810$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.4218.2416.23
 Students per Librarian66223484573
 Students per Counselor486718530
 Grade School Educ.1.6%3.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.4.3%5.6%6.3%
 High School Educ.94.1%90.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.0%27.5%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.7.2%9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.51.9%29.5%33.7%
 Masters Grad.19.1%7.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.2%1.5%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree8.1%0.9%1.5%

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Reviews for Champaign    13 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

Pros - close to Chicago, has Parkland community college and lots of places to eat. There is a train station downtown that is really good. Beautiful deciduous trees and  More

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Over 7 years ago

I wonderful city with great  More

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Actually it's barely a nice place to live. The pros: Not terribly expensive - at one point the least expensive place to live in the country among modest sized  More

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Reviews for Mesa    61 Reviews

Mesa is a really good city despite some trouble with Superstition Springs and the failure that is Fiesta Mall, there is nice areas throughout and some areas that need to  More

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Over 1 years ago

As someone who was born in Mesa and has lived here in the 85210 in Dobson Ranch for the last 13 years after moving out from Chandler. I can tell you that most of the  More

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I’m a native to Arizona and growing up here has taught me that people just don’t care, and the Mormon community is huge! It’s normal in the state of AZ for kids to start  More

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ZIPS IN CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS
61820 61821 61822
ZIPS IN MESA, ARIZONA
85204, 85201, 85207, 85205, 85209, 85210, 85202, 85203, 85208, 85206, 14 total

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