2025 Compare Cities Education:
Carbondale, IL vs Coal City, IL

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Highlights
- Coal City spends 17.8% less per student than Carbondale.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 31.1% higher in Coal City than in Carbondale. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Coal City had 1.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Carbondale
 Carbondale, ILCoal City, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,675$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,077  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,263$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.29  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock32894573
 Students per Counselor482  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock93.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock11.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.45.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock8.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.6%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.0%1.5%
Reviews for Carbondale    7 Reviews

I've lived in C'dale for over 30 years. I got an excellent education here - Giant City School was great, though fairly insular and not very diverse (among its drawbacks  More

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Over 17 years ago

I like Carbondale. It is relaxing and an easy way to go about getting a college degree. It has its ups and downs, mainly with the people in the town not recognizing the  More

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All of the comments are negative here and seem to me to be misleading. The idea that you have to have a lot of money in Carbondale is ridiculous. The price of cultural  More

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Reviews for Coal City    4 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

No culture at all. Very rigid, uneducated, small town in  More

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Over 15 years ago

Coal City is a nice quiet little town where people mostly mind their own business. There are plenty of community events, this is a great place to live if you have young  More

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Over 16 years ago

What do the powers to be say in Coal City, Illinois, about the possibility that the very first airfield in the world was in Coal City. We need to speak to a Historian of  More

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