2025 Compare Cities Education:
Albany, CA vs Alameda, CA

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- Alameda spends 0.0% less per student than Albany.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 0.0% lower in Alameda than in Albany. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Alameda had 4.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Albany
 Albany, CAAlameda, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$17,788$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,323  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,104$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio21.61  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock95554573
 Students per Counselor603  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.10.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock6.0%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.73.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock16.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.0%1.5%
Reviews for Albany    4 Reviews

Albany is one of the best places to live not only in California but the USA. Niche 2023 has ranked Albany the number one suburb in California and is consistently in the  More

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Over 13 years ago

Like many places in the Bay Area, there are some mixed-race couples and gay couples in Albany. What is really striking, though, is the number of families where both  More

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Albany was originally built as a railroad workers' town. So the bad news is that nearly every house was originally two, or at most three, bedrooms with one bath, about  More

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Reviews for Alameda    6 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

Having been born here & 70 now I have watched firsthand, a small, quiet town ruined by excessive building, overcrowding and far too many restaurants for a city this  More

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Enjoy the immense benefit to having a close-knit community with main-street USA feel less than 10 miles from the resources of several urban and education  More

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Alameda, CA is a unique town here in the Bay Area. Perhaps because it is an island, or perhaps because for many decades it was a U.S. Army base, the city has never  More

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