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Dover, DE vs Bridgeport, CT

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Highlights
- Bridgeport spends 38.7% more per student than Dover.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 11.2% lower in Bridgeport than in Dover. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Bridgeport had 12.6% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Dover

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 Dover, DEBridgeport, CTUnited States
 Expend. per Student$16,576$22,984$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$14,812$20,833$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$8,755$12,792$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.3812.7716.23
 Students per Librarian12065064573
 Students per Counselor357356530
 Grade School Educ.2.2%13.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.1%9.4%6.3%
 High School Educ.88.8%77.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.6%18.6%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.10.1%6.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.25.9%20.1%33.7%
 Masters Grad.9.1%5.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.2%1.0%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.3%0.9%1.5%

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Reviews for Dover    9 Reviews

Key points are "an excellent quality of life and a low crime rate" as well as low taxes. Delaware attracts the highest percentage of retirees, plus people of all other  More

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Dover, DE is a great placed to live. I work at OCEAN, which is a non profit organization that sponsors high school exchange students. We had foreign students reside in  More

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Over 6 years ago

Dover, like any town other than Newark, is very unsophisticated, boring, unfriendly, and uneducated. I've resided in many states and Delaware will be the state that I  More

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Reviews for Bridgeport    17 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

Bridgeport Connecticut is a beautiful city and a wonderful place to live. I currently attend Central Magnet high school as well as the Bridgeport Aquaculture school and  More

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Over 12 years ago

I left Bridgeport in 1996, after bankruptcy changed it. I left looking for a better place to live. Funny thing is I haven't found it. I grew up in Bridgeport. What I  More

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Over 14 years ago

Bridgeport is the best place ever ive been livin here all my life i love it it aint as bad as people say it it they dont know wat they talkin  More

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