2024 Compare Cities Education:
Soldotna, AK vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 21.1% less per student than Soldotna.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 29.6% higher in Rochester than in Soldotna. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 3.2% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Soldotna
 Soldotna, AKRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student$18,627$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$18,193$12,126$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$10,414$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.620.2116.23
 Students per Librarian5719264573
 Students per Counselor432435530
 Grade School Educ.0.0%2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.5%2.9%6.3%
 High School Educ.97.5%94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.35.8%15.8%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.8.2%11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.17.9%48.7%33.7%
 Masters Grad.3.2%13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.0%5.2%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree0.6%3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Soldotna    1 Reviews

May through late August: Summer with highs being in the 70's. This Summer (2006) so far it's been mainly cloudy and rainy. Our Summer daylight is awesome though, and  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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