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Alamosa, CO vs Fort Collins, CO

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Highlights
- Fort Collins spends 28.9% more per student than Alamosa.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 5.1% higher in Fort Collins than in Alamosa. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fort Collins had 9.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Alamosa
 Alamosa, COFort Collins, COUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,339$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,048  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,338$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.66  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock4844573
 Students per Counselor182  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.8%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock97.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.23.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock17.5%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.8%1.5%
Reviews for Alamosa    5 Reviews

Rating 1 out of 5 This place is absolutely Crawling with meth and heroin addicts. They roam the streets, they constantly knock on your door asking for rides and money.  More

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If want to retire in a nice, quiet place where you can live in isolation, you have a steady stream of income from an outside source, you don't have anything valuable  More

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Over 12 years ago

Honestly Alamosa is probably the worst place ever..It sucks..Especially being African-American here..The people show signs of racism which is confusing to me seeing that  More

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Reviews for Fort Collins    71 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Moved my family here a few months ago and have been so disappointed. Housing is dismal - you get low quality and almost nothing for what you’re paying. The house we’re  More

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Over 4 years ago

There is a high cost of living in all of Colorado, and there is a train that runs through the town a honks its horn for about 5 min straight which is very annoying  More

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My family established our home in Larimer County in 1973; this area, Fort Collins, was a quaint, western-ish town we loved to visit. So I’ve visited FoCo multiple times  More

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