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Sarasota, FL vs Champaign, IL

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Highlights
- Champaign spends 52.1% more per student than Sarasota.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 12.7% lower in Champaign than in Sarasota. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Champaign had 4.0% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Sarasota

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 Sarasota, FLChampaign, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student$13,454$20,461$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,778$15,342$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$7,593$9,155$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.3813.4216.23
 Students per Librarian8686624573
 Students per Counselor406486530
 Grade School Educ.3.6%1.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.5.9%4.3%6.3%
 High School Educ.90.5%94.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.18.2%18.0%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.8.1%7.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.38.3%51.9%33.7%
 Masters Grad.10.3%19.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.0%4.2%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree2.4%8.1%1.5%

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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Reviews for Champaign    13 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

Pros - close to Chicago, has Parkland community college and lots of places to eat. There is a train station downtown that is really good. Beautiful deciduous trees and  More

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Over 7 years ago

I wonderful city with great  More

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Actually it's barely a nice place to live. The pros: Not terribly expensive - at one point the least expensive place to live in the country among modest sized  More

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