2025 Compare Cities Education:
Athens, TX vs Garden Grove, CA

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Highlights
- Garden Grove spends 9.0% more per student than Athens.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 76.2% higher in Garden Grove than in Athens. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Garden Grove had 6.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Athens
 Athens, TXGarden Grove, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,277$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,459  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,037$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.17  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock163834573
 Students per Counselor422  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock13.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.11.6%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock75.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.20.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock3.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.6%1.5%
Reviews for Athens    2 Reviews

Over 15 years ago

Athens is a beautiful east Texas town. It is clean and friendly, but no one gets in a hurry! The traffic light are terrible, you have to stop at every one. They have  More

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Athens is a charming and nice community. Its clean and well thought- out. It could use more industry...but, so could east Texas in general. A big plus, is that Athens  More

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Reviews for Garden Grove    10 Reviews

I've lived here for over 20 years. City hasn't changed much. Being in the SoCal area, there's plenty of stuff to do around here. Like with all of SoCal, population has  More

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Over 8 years ago

So safe and boring that the police here rarely have anything better to do. At one time, I rented a room in another person's home and decided to put some aluminum foil  More

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Over 13 years ago

This is a very informative  More

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