2025 Compare Cities Education:
Carmel, IN vs Elmhurst, IL

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Highlights
- Elmhurst spends 57.2% more per student than Carmel.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 22.5% lower in Elmhurst than in Carmel. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Elmhurst had 1.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Carmel
 Carmel, INElmhurst, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$22,018$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$10,578  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,697$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.32  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock7094573
 Students per Counselor1344  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock96.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.11.3%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.73.5%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock20.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock2.6%1.5%
Reviews for Carmel    26 Reviews

I moved to Carmel from France and I lived there for 20 years. I moved to Indianapolis recently (I miss Carmel). I liked Carmel because it is clean, safe, pretty, it has  More

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This place has just about every corporate chain hotel imaginable. I come for business, and it is a nice place to do business. Carmel seems to sucking the corporate  More

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Over 10 years ago

Carmel is hands down the best place to live in  More

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Reviews for Elmhurst    3 Reviews

Over 11 years ago

We feel pretty safe in our community. The police are nice and helpful. I do not feel the crime rate is  More

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Over 15 years ago

Elmhurst is a FANTASTIC town to live in. My husband and I both grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and have lived in Elmhurst for the past 5 years. We feel incredibly safe  More

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We've lived here for 25 years - Elmhurst, IL. By luck in 1983, we moved here. Young newlyweds, we really weren't too well versed in sizing up a community to buy a  More

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