2025 Compare Cities Education:
Carbondale, IL vs Spring Hill, TN

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Highlights
- Spring Hill spends 29.9% less per student than Carbondale.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 28.4% higher in Spring Hill than in Carbondale. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Spring Hill had 1.8% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Carbondale
 Carbondale, ILSpring Hill, TNUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,371$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$16,077  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,635$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.29  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock3994573
 Students per Counselor482  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock0.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.4%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock96.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.25.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock12.1%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.45.4%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock11.5%9.3%
 Professional Degree3.6%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.1%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 Spring Hill    3 Reviews

Over 14 years ago

Deciding to leave Illinois due to the cold and new Income Tax increase. How is the weather, are the locals receptive to more "yankees" moving to town? Is the commute bad  More

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Over 15 years ago

The great thing about Spring Hill is that you get a small town feel even though it's not really a small town anymore and yet, very close to A LOT of restaurants and  More

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Over 18 years ago

I've lived in this town for over ten years. Before Saturn it was a small, rural community with a k-12 school, co-op and Kirk's general store. By 1999, the town began  More

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