2025 Compare Cities Education:
Charleston, SC vs Fort Pierce, FL

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Highlights
- Fort Pierce spends 40.9% less per student than Charleston.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 46.9% higher in Fort Pierce than in Charleston. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fort Pierce had 17.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Charleston
 Charleston, SCFort Pierce, FLUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,181$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$12,188  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,827$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio12.91  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock11554573
 Students per Counselor284  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock9.0%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.3.1%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock78.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.16.1%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.55.7%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock4.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree4.8%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.3%1.5%
Reviews for Charleston    76 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Charleston is beautiful and unique and incredibly special. If you don't believe me, just ask Anthony Bourdain in his Parts Unknown episode - and he was an insightful  More

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Serious lack of health care and "good old boys club" whereby doctors will not even see the patient but diagnose them based on referring doctor. My sister died there for  More

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Over 5 years ago

Boy, has this once beautiful town changed...for the worse! I initially moved here 20 years ago because the people were so nice, no traffic, great choice of hospitals,  More

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Reviews for Fort Pierce    4 Reviews

Fort Pierce has both beautiful pristine Atlantic Ocean Beaches and Indian River Lagoon state of the art marinas. The two are linked by the best ocean inlet in the state  More

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Over 18 years ago

Entertainment is  More

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Over 18 years ago

I moved here from Ohio nearly three years ago. It was fun at first...fishing,the beach and the winter weather was nice. But, after the honeymoon was over, I began to see  More

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