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Fort Myers Shores, FL vs Sarasota, FL

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Highlights
- Sarasota spends 16.5% more per student than Fort Myers Shores.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 18.2% lower in Sarasota than in Fort Myers Shores. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Sarasota had 5.6% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Fort Myers Shores

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 Fort Myers Shores, FLSarasota, FLUnited States
 Expend. per Student$11,545$13,454$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,527$11,778$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$5,654$7,593$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.8115.3816.23
 Students per Librarian28708684573
 Students per Counselor557406530
 Grade School Educ.8.0%3.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.6.2%5.9%6.3%
 High School Educ.85.8%90.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.0%18.2%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.9.1%8.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.14.4%38.3%33.7%
 Masters Grad.1.1%10.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.8%4.0%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree0.6%2.4%1.5%

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Reviews for Fort Myers Shores    1 Reviews

I've been hearing some unpleasant stories about investing in Lehigh acres, once and for all I'd like to hear straight from the horse's mouth. Will it be good for me to  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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