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Columbus, OH vs Sarasota, FL

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Highlights
- Sarasota spends 20.2% less per student than Columbus.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 13.1% lower in Sarasota than in Columbus. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Sarasota had 0.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Columbus

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 Columbus, OHSarasota, FLUnited States
 Expend. per Student$16,851$13,454$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,310$11,778$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,973$7,593$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.715.3816.23
 Students per Librarian6948684573
 Students per Counselor388406530
 Grade School Educ.3.6%3.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.2%5.9%6.3%
 High School Educ.90.3%90.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.20.3%18.2%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.7.4%8.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.37.9%38.3%33.7%
 Masters Grad.10.0%10.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.1%4.0%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.6%2.4%1.5%

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Reviews for Columbus    156 Reviews

Ellenore · 
Over 1 years ago

I've lived here for my whole life! Awesome place to  More

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We lived in Columbus from 2014-2022, originally from Denver work has taken us to Charlotte, NC, Austin and Atlanta for perspective. One of our biggest reasons for  More

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Over 2 years ago

The city has nice areas and old/ugly areas that look like the remains of a civil war. The nice areas are pretty. Traffic isn't bad compared to Cali but the summer  More

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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43228, 43229, 43207, 43232, 43224, 43204, 43235, 43110, 43201, 43219, 31 total
ZIPS IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA
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