2024 Compare Cities Education:
Novato, CA vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 30.4% less per student than Novato.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 1.9% higher in Rochester than in Novato. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 3.2% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Novato
 Novato, CARochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student$21,111$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$14,962$12,126$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$9,450$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio19.8420.2116.23
 Students per Librarian41419264573
 Students per Counselor508435530
 Grade School Educ.5.4%2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.0%2.9%6.3%
 High School Educ.91.5%94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.0%15.8%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.9.0%11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.46.5%48.7%33.7%
 Masters Grad.10.5%13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.1%5.2%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.2%3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Novato    9 Reviews

Lush hills, hiking trails, and easy access to both wine country and San Francisco. We love it here.  More

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Over 9 years ago

Novato is a family oriented community located about 20 miles north of the Golden Gate bridge. The quality of life is excellent here assuming your job pays you enough to  More

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Over 10 years ago

We recently moved to a secluded neighborhood in Novato after 25 years in central Marin. While there are fewer restaurants and galleries, we are very pleased with our  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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