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Fort Collins, CO vs Evanston, IL

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Highlights
- Evanston spends 52.8% more per student than Fort Collins.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 15.1% lower in Evanston than in Fort Collins. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Evanston had 1.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Fort Collins

Education
 Fort Collins, COEvanston, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student$14,339$21,907$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,528$18,508$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$6,338$11,567$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio16.4613.9716.23
 Students per Librarian48414804573
 Students per Counselor173481530
 Grade School Educ.1.0%2.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.0%2.5%6.3%
 High School Educ.97.0%95.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.17.3%11.5%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.8.6%4.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.56.6%68.3%33.7%
 Masters Grad.17.5%23.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.5%6.9%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree3.8%7.7%1.5%

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Reviews for Fort Collins    71 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Moved my family here a few months ago and have been so disappointed. Housing is dismal - you get low quality and almost nothing for what you’re paying. The house we’re  More

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Over 3 years ago

There is a high cost of living in all of Colorado, and there is a train that runs through the town a honks its horn for about 5 min straight which is very annoying  More

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My family established our home in Larimer County in 1973; this area, Fort Collins, was a quaint, western-ish town we loved to visit. So I’ve visited FoCo multiple times  More

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Reviews for Evanston    20 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

be sure to take pictures of where you park... Full-scale parking scam going on in this town. They purposely obscure self-pay parking signs. Nine out of 10 visitors  More

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I've lived here for two years for school. Terrible place for students. Northwestern is a great school/campus, but the city itself is NOT student friendly. Everything  More

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Aside from everything else mentioned on this site about the bad aspects of Evanston - bot be overlooked is the NOISE. The People's Republic of Evanston CATERS to the  More

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ZIPS IN FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
80525 80526 80521 80524 80528
ZIPS IN EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
60201 60202

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