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Carson City, NV vs Meridian, ID

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Highlights
- Meridian spends 0.6% more per student than Carson City.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 22.4% lower in Meridian than in Carson City. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Meridian had 8.6% more residents who had graduated High School compared to Carson City

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 Carson City, NVMeridian, IDUnited States
 Expend. per Student$9,224$9,278$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$7,679$8,035$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student$4,732$4,946$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio22.9517.8216.23
 Students per Librarian217810314573
 Students per Counselor877430530
 Grade School Educ.4.3%1.2%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.8.0%3.5%6.3%
 High School Educ.87.7%95.3%88.9%
 Some College Educ.27.9%25.0%20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.10.2%10.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.23.1%40.9%33.7%
 Masters Grad.5.2%10.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.7%2.2%2.2%
 Doctorate Degree0.7%1.4%1.5%

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Reviews for Carson City    15 Reviews

Visited on and off over the years. It is actually green in the surrounding areas, right in town it lacks good green planning. Being so close to Carson and Tahoe,  More

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Over 2 years ago

I'd give Carson City a zero if I could. Simply, there's nothing to do here except drink and gamble. Sure, Tahoe seems close, but the vibrant part is about 40 minutes  More

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Carson City, Nevada is a wonderful place to raise a family and/or retire. We raised our two youngest children here and now we are retired, after moving to CC 21 years  More

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Reviews for Meridian    18 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

New to the area and so far we think it's a great place to live compared to Denver, where we moved from. Quality of life is so much better here! A lot less traffic than  More

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I have been here since 2013 and have watched child after child be diagnosed with Cancer. Many of the children have been diagnosed with "rare" Cancers. It has been  More

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Over 6 years ago

It has changed a lot over the years... Crime rates are still low and people are overall still nice HOWEVER way too many people are moving to my wonderful town! All the  More

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ZIPS IN CARSON CITY, NEVADA
89701 89706 89703
ZIPS IN MERIDIAN, IDAHO
83646 83642

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