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Boise City, ID vs Kent, WA

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- Kent spends 116.3% more per student than Boise City.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 4.0% higher in Kent than in Boise City. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Kent had 8.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Boise City
 Boise City, IDKent, WAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$20,069$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$8,035  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,846$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.82  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9894573
 Students per Counselor430  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock6.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.3%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock10.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.43.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock6.5%9.3%
 Professional Degree2.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.4%1.5%
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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Reviews for Kent    7 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

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Western Washington has a moderate climate with summers that do not get too hot as a rule usually the upper 70's to low 80's for a couple months then dropping back to  More

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employment-housing-mass-transit, kent has it  More

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