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Poughkeepsie, NY vs Dover, DE

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Highlights
- Dover spends 41.6% less per student than Poughkeepsie.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 15.5% higher in Dover than in Poughkeepsie. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Dover had 1.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Poughkeepsie

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 Poughkeepsie, NYDover, DEUnited States
 Expend. per Student$28,380$16,576$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$24,643$14,812$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$16,100$8,755$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.4514.3816.23
 Students per Librarian90512064573
 Students per Counselor347357530
 Grade School Educ.4.6%2.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.7.8%9.1%6.3%
 High School Educ.87.6%88.8%88.9%
 Some College Educ.19.2%22.6%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.8.9%10.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.29.6%25.9%33.7%
 Masters Grad.10.0%9.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.7%1.2%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree1.1%1.3%1.5%

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Reviews for Poughkeepsie    10 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

I have mixed feelings about Poughkeepsie because there are equally as many things I love about that town as there are things I hate about it so I'm just going to write a  More

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Over 11 years ago

Prices are high here. housing is easily 25-30percent of our monthly  More

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Over 12 years ago

It'd be great if jobs were available. This city is OK but COL is so much higher in NY than where I was raised in South Maybe I should head  More

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Reviews for Dover    9 Reviews

Key points are "an excellent quality of life and a low crime rate" as well as low taxes. Delaware attracts the highest percentage of retirees, plus people of all other  More

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Dover, DE is a great placed to live. I work at OCEAN, which is a non profit organization that sponsors high school exchange students. We had foreign students reside in  More

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Over 6 years ago

Dover, like any town other than Newark, is very unsophisticated, boring, unfriendly, and uneducated. I've resided in many states and Delaware will be the state that I  More

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ZIPS IN POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK
12601
ZIPS IN DOVER, DELAWARE
19901 19904 19902

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