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New Orleans, LA vs Richmond, CA

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Highlights
- Richmond spends 25.6% less per student than New Orleans.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 25.8% higher in Richmond than in New Orleans. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Richmond had 10.0% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to New Orleans

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 New Orleans, LARichmond, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student$20,431$15,192$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,687$12,448$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$6,683$7,565$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.6522.2116.23
 Students per Librarian225275184573
 Students per Counselor586584530
 Grade School Educ.3.5%12.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.3%8.4%6.3%
 High School Educ.88.2%79.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.6%19.3%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.5.0%7.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.39.1%32.0%33.7%
 Masters Grad.10.4%8.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.5%1.6%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.2%1.7%1.5%

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Reviews for New Orleans    87 Reviews

Over 1 years ago

I have lived in NOLA for 6 years. Like all cities, you must take the good with the bad. It is more expensive than what you read about on the internet. The drivers are  More

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Over 2 years ago

I've lived here for going on 3 years. The person who lives with me wanted us to move here. It got old for me very soon after we moved here. Neither of us like it.   More

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Lived here 20 years, transplant from a dank Midwestern metropolis. For the first 15 years I was pretty much one of those rabid people foaming at the mouth whenever  More

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Reviews for Richmond    9 Reviews

I've lived in Richmond since 2014. I find that for proximity to the rest of the East Bay, Marin county, and San Francisco it's a tremendous location. We moved here from  More

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Over 4 years ago

Grown up around all my life, and lived for the past 3 years. Diverse in the worst kinda way (the way that will get you robbed or assaulted). The epicenter of the  More

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I've lived here for more than half of my life, and never want to leave. The weather is nearly perfect. The population is very racially diverse and people for the most  More

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ZIPS IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
70119, 70122, 70118, 70131, 70115, 70126, 70117, 70127, 70114, 70124, 19 total
ZIPS IN RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA
94804 94801 94805

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