2025 Compare Cities Education:
Brookings, OR vs Mesa, AZ

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Highlights
- Mesa spends 28.1% less per student than Brookings.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 8.9% higher in Mesa than in Brookings. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Mesa had 3.0% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Brookings
 Brookings, ORMesa, AZUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,564$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,781  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,810$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio16.75  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock23484573
 Students per Counselor294  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.35.8%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.22.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock7.3%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.9%1.5%
Reviews for Brookings    29 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Brookings Oregon is one of the most beautiful places in the world and has perfect weather. I searched for a retirement home, on the beach, for nearly ten years before  More

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Over 4 years ago

Brookings is an interesting place, very nice scenery, and excellent weather. The "locals" who inhabit this place are some of the most ignorant biased people you will  More

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Retired and moved here with my husband in 2020. Best decision we ever made. Amazing weather...even the rainy days are punctuated by crisp, sunny days in the winter. Not  More

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Reviews for Mesa    61 Reviews

Mesa is a really good city despite some trouble with Superstition Springs and the failure that is Fiesta Mall, there is nice areas throughout and some areas that need to  More

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Over 2 years ago

As someone who was born in Mesa and has lived here in the 85210 in Dobson Ranch for the last 13 years after moving out from Chandler. I can tell you that most of the  More

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I’m a native to Arizona and growing up here has taught me that people just don’t care, and the Mormon community is huge! It’s normal in the state of AZ for kids to start  More

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