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Carlsbad, NM vs Folsom, CA

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Highlights
- Folsom spends 16.1% more per student than Carlsbad.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 24.0% higher in Folsom than in Carlsbad. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Folsom had 11.0% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Carlsbad
 Carlsbad, NMFolsom, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,240$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$9,790  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,670$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio18.34  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock63214573
 Students per Counselor1089  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.11.5%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock92.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.23.6%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.18.0%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock16.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree0.4%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.0%1.5%
Reviews for Carlsbad    16 Reviews

I've only been here for a few months, but I can quickly sum up this town as a rundown truck stop, perpetually buffeted by relentless wind, dirt, and hot air. The gas  More

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Over 3 years ago

We used to visit here every few years from Michigan just to see the Living Desert State Park. A very long way to drive to spend a a couple of days in this hauntingly  More

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Been here 9 years. Very difficult place. Price gouging, extremely expensive to live here. Crazy amounts of crime, cops do nothing. Very crowded, bad traffic and crazy  More

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Reviews for Folsom    15 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

Folsom has the worst air quality of any city in the Sacramento region per Sac Metro Air Quality Management. Do not move there if u have any respiratory issues, or u like  More

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Over 12 years ago

Folsom is a great little town of about 70,000 people. A half hour from Sacramento, an hour and a half from Tahoe, it sits in a good location at about 320 feet altitude.  More

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I think Folsom is ideal in many ways but it shares Sacramento's lousy air quality (1.5 out of 100 per this site). Sometimes it's worse than Sacramento when a smog  More

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