2025 Compare Cities Education:
Carrboro, NC vs Lake Oswego, OR

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Highlights
- Lake Oswego spends 20.5% more per student than Carrboro.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 45.2% higher in Lake Oswego than in Carrboro. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Lake Oswego had 3.3% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Carrboro
 Carrboro, NCLake Oswego, ORUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$18,730$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,405  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,998$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio13.09  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock7444573
 Students per Counselor280  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock0.4%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock98.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.5%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.6%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock20.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree8.1%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock5.0%1.5%
Reviews for Carrboro    4 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

Carrboro is basically a bedroom community, where people who work at or study at UNC over in Chapel Hill lay down for the night. All day they work at UNC only to pay the  More

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Carrboro has a strong civic life with a lot of local participation and visionary politics towards making a more sustainable and just community. The center of town has  More

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Over 15 years ago

climate is good, 4 seasons, winter is short with just a little  More

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Reviews for Lake Oswego    14 Reviews

I have lived occasionally in Lake Oswego with my sister who married a LO man and found it very sweet. He was raised there by hard-working parents who had fantastic work  More

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Over 6 years ago

Retired in Lake Oswego to be close to family and Live in a beautiful little city. We call it Paradise. We’ve had part-time property in Oregon for 20 years and we have  More

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Ive lived here 22 years and it has gone from a charming small town to a congested pass thru neighborhood. People are rude, traffic a nightmare and we hate it here but  More

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