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Hobbs, NM vs Boise City, ID

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Highlights
- Boise City spends 22.2% less per student than Hobbs.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 4.3% higher in Boise City than in Hobbs. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 23.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Hobbs

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 Hobbs, NMBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student$11,926$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,736$8,035$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$5,886$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.0917.8216.23
 Students per Librarian369910314573
 Students per Counselor696430530
 Grade School Educ.11.0%1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.11.7%3.3%6.3%
 High School Educ.77.3%95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.6%22.8%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.8.7%8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.16.0%43.7%33.7%
 Masters Grad.5.9%10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.9%2.8%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree0.4%2.0%1.5%

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Reviews for Hobbs    3 Reviews

Over 9 years ago

Hobbs, New Mexico is a growing city on the eastern edge of the New Mexico- texas border. The people are friendly and hard working. The school system is in the top tier  More

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Over 14 years ago

Hobbs is the worst place in the U.S. to live. People that live here are snobs and they aren't helpful at all. Forget about getting a job here. If they don't like you,  More

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Over 16 years ago

Pros: 1. Extremely low cost of living and housing for region 2. Affordable place to live 3. Nice physical setting and climate Cons: 1. Very high crime rate 2.  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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ZIPS IN HOBBS, NEW MEXICO
88240
ZIPS IN BOISE CITY, IDAHO
83709 83704 83706 83713 83705 83702 83716 83703 83712

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