2026 Compare Cities Education:
Bloomington, IL vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Rochester spends 13.4% less per student than Bloomington.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 53.3% higher in Rochester than in Bloomington. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Rochester had 0.6% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Bloomington
 Bloomington, ILRochester, MNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,702$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$15,275  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,869$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.18  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9264573
 Students per Counselor756  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.19.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.3%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.47.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock13.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.9%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.6%1.5%
Reviews for Bloomington    18 Reviews

If you're not from here it might be hard to figure out that Bloomington and Normal are actually one city mushed together, so make sure you look up info on Normal, IL  More

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Over 12 years ago

Bloomington-Normal as a city is full of resturants and movie theaters. The downtown bar scene is dominated by ISU, IWU, and HCC students. The colleges can have some fun  More

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Bloomington-Normal as a city is full of resturants and movie theaters. The downtown bar scene is dominated by ISU, IWU, and HCC students. The colleges can have some fun  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 6 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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