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Folsom, CA vs Lake Forest, CA

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Highlights
- Lake Forest spends 0.2% more per student than Folsom.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 2.0% higher in Lake Forest than in Folsom. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Lake Forest had 0.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Folsom

Education
 Folsom, CALake Forest, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$15,240$15,277$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,484$12,911$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,670$8,037$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio22.7523.2116.23
 Students per Librarian6321163834573
 Students per Counselor641595530
 Grade School Educ.2.3%3.4%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.0%3.6%6.3%
 High School Educ.92.7%93.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.1%20.5%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.9.9%9.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.51.7%48.7%33.7%
 Masters Grad.16.9%12.4%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.9%2.7%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.0%1.9%1.5%

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Reviews for Folsom    15 Reviews

Over 9 years ago

Folsom has the worst air quality of any city in the Sacramento region per Sac Metro Air Quality Management. Do not move there if u have any respiratory issues, or u like  More

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Over 11 years ago

Folsom is a great little town of about 70,000 people. A half hour from Sacramento, an hour and a half from Tahoe, it sits in a good location at about 320 feet altitude.  More

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I think Folsom is ideal in many ways but it shares Sacramento's lousy air quality (1.5 out of 100 per this site). Sometimes it's worse than Sacramento when a smog  More

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Reviews for Lake Forest    15 Reviews

As a retired senior who has lived in Lake Forest (formerly El Toro) since 1977 I think LF is a great place if you can afford it. When we moved here in June '77 homes  More

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I’ve lived here for 2 years. Ok, it’s more like a 4 but there are so many idiots downplaying what it’s like here and giving Lake Forest ones and twos. There are a lot of  More

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Over 5 years ago

I've lived here for 5 and a half years and it's the worst. There's no way to describe the inherent awful nature of Lake Forest without sounding like I'm exaggerating.  More

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ZIPS IN FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA
95630
ZIPS IN LAKE FOREST, CALIFORNIA
92630 92610 92676

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