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Rochester, MN vs Portland, OR

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Highlights
- Portland spends 33.1% more per student than Rochester.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 14.6% lower in Portland than in Rochester. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Portland had 1.2% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Rochester

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 Rochester, MNPortland, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student$14,702$19,574$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,126$14,240$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,869$7,835$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio20.2117.2516.23
 Students per Librarian9266144573
 Students per Counselor435299530
 Grade School Educ.2.7%3.1%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.9%3.6%6.3%
 High School Educ.94.4%93.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.15.8%19.4%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.11.3%6.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.48.7%51.9%33.7%
 Masters Grad.13.1%13.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree5.2%4.3%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree3.6%2.4%1.5%

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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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Reviews for Portland    386 Reviews

I lived in Portland for 19 years (I've also lived in Boise, ID, the Bay Area, Austin, TX and now Nampa, ID). It drives me nuts when people try to give a large city a  More

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One of the best cities in America. Food scene is the best in the world. Weather is preferable over places where you have the same weather year round. I enjoy the  More

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I moved from Houston to Portland about a year ago. I remember reading the reviews on here and it making me second guess moving before I did, so I wanted to come back and  More

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ZIPS IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
55901 55904 55902 55906 55905
ZIPS IN PORTLAND, OREGON
97206, 97202, 97233, 97219, 97236, 97230, 97211, 97266, 97217, 97203, 28 total

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