2025 Compare Cities Education:
Cambridge, MD vs Providence, RI

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Highlights
- Providence spends 1.9% more per student than Cambridge.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 0.1% lower in Providence than in Cambridge. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Providence had 4.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Cambridge
 Cambridge, MDProvidence, RIUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$18,605$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,794  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,362$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.37  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9134573
 Students per Counselor241  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock9.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.9.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock83.5%88.9%
 Some College Educ.22.9%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.20.8%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock9.5%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.9%1.5%
Reviews for Cambridge    5 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

This city is a white male mecca, rampant racism and sexism are to be found here. Little else. Poor schools. No jobs. Large  More

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The politics and the taxes make living in Cambridge terrible. Property values are depressed because the taxes are too high. Not enough people paying heir own way or fair  More

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Over 16 years ago

Cambridge, Maryland offers many places to own a second home or retirement location with utilities and infrastructure to support many new people. Cambridge is about  More

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Reviews for Providence    19 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

I think I hate this city more then my  More

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Over 9 years ago

I currently live in Rockford IL and just graduated college for broadcasting. I want to move out of this depressing, negative city and was thinking about Providence,  More

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And I've been to San Francisco and Seattle, so that's saying a lot. If you like pot, good for you, my annoyance is with all the people who smoke pot plainly in  More

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