2025 Compare Cities Education:
Ada, OK vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 36.9% more per student than Ada.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 42.5% higher in Rochester than in Ada. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 7.8% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Ada
 Ada, OKRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,918  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.18  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor288  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.0%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.3%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.30.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Ada    4 Reviews

Over 11 years ago

Ada, Oklahoma is probably the best place to live in USA.I have lived here all of my life and would not move for anything.It is a close knit community where people  More

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Over 15 years ago

gang members? Where are you originally from? I'm from California, and used to live 20 minutes from East L.A. Are you sure you know what the meaning of Gang Member is? I  More

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The school system is below average in my opinion, the students all seem to come from bad ad neglected homes. There is higher crime than thought and my neighborhood is  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 5 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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