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Apple Valley, CA vs Boise City, ID

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Highlights
- Boise City spends 36.8% less per student than Apple Valley.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 21.6% lower in Boise City than in Apple Valley. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Boise City had 10.5% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Apple Valley
 Apple Valley, CABoise City, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$13,060  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio22.74  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock10314573
 Students per Counselor531  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock95.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.27.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.17.9%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Apple Valley    20 Reviews

I've lived in Apple Valley for 11 years. The town is poorly managed, but still an okay place to live. In your climate rating you say average rainfall is 14 inches per  More

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Over 6 years ago

Overall, it's a nice place to call home. The affordability makes it a desirable place to live, especially with the amount you get for your money. For people who own farm  More

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This is a beautiful place. Gorgeous sunsets and sunrises, many different kinds of birds including the Mockingbird and phoebes. When I first moved up here we had many  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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