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Anderson, IN vs Boise City, ID

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- Boise City spends 28.6% less per student than Anderson.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 11.0% higher in Boise City than in Anderson. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 9.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Anderson
 Anderson, INBoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,338  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio16.05  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor3025  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.16.0%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.6%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Anderson    6 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

Seems to check all the boxes for retirement. Housing appears to be affordable and is close to a large city  More

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This city has had it's problems, as many of the Whiners & Moaners making comments here have written. So What! There are probably a thousand cities in the USA today with  More

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Over 14 years ago

Anderson lost thousands of jobs from the auto industry which resulted in many vacant houses. Combine that with the housing bubble popping and the result is very  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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