2025 Compare Cities Education:
Alexandria, VA vs Fayetteville, NC

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Highlights
- Fayetteville spends 47.2% less per student than Alexandria.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 7.6% lower in Fayetteville than in Alexandria. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fayetteville had 0.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Alexandria
 Alexandria, VAFayetteville, NCUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,111$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$18,099  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,015$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio15.31  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5574573
 Students per Counselor2239  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.7%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.12.2%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.65.2%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree6.7%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.0%1.5%
Reviews for Alexandria    49 Reviews

Old Town Alexandria is a charming port city, with lovely historic homes, fun restaurants and sweet shops. Its easy proximity to the hustle and bustle of DC offer  More

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Alexandria is different depending on what part of it you are in. There is a huge strata of rich and poor, with a few middle class neighborhoods in between. Old town is  More

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The mailing address in this area is Alexandria, or Engleside. Either way, it's SE Fairfax County between Fort Belvoir and Mount Vernon. The neighborhood has been here  More

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Reviews for Fayetteville    46 Reviews

I have lived in Fayetteville for 21 years and I LOVE IT! Fayetteville is a military town and that is what brought my husband and I here originally. Since January 2000  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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